Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports

Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a research agency of Congress and writes reports at Congress' request. These short reports (usually 10-40 pages long) cover recent topics of concern. This week brings us reports on arms sales, influenza, the Congressional Review Act, and other topics. Although these reports are in the public domain, there is no central database available to the public. To get a copy of a CRS report, you can request it from your senator or representative. These reports were discovered by OpenCRS and Secrecy News:

• Terrorist Attacks on Commercial Airlines: Federal Criminal Prohibitions
• Project BioShield: Authorities, Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Issues for Congress
• Charitable Contributions for Haiti’s Earthquake Victims
• U.S. and South Korean Cooperation in the World Nuclear Energy Market: Major Policy Considerations
• Argentina’s Defaulted Sovereign Debt: Dealing with the ‘Holdouts’
• Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
• A U.S.-centric Chronology of the International Climate Change Negotiations
• Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance
• Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2010
• Guam: U.S. Defense Deployments
• Guantanamo Detention Center: Legislative Activity in the 111th Congress
• Iran's Nuclear Program: Status
• North Korea: Terrorism List Removal
• Private Security Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Legal Issues
• State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2010 Budget and Appropriations
• The Federal Budget: Current and Upcoming Issues
• The U.S. Postal Service's Financial Condition: Overview and Issues for Congress
• U.S. Periods of War
• Uruguay: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations

Interested in historical CRS reports? If you are here at the Boulder campus, check out the LexisNexis Congressional database, which has reports dating back to 1916.

Not on campus but still want access to additional reports? The library has a guide linking to various additional sources of CRS reports.