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 Iran, Twitter, taxes, and much more. Although these reports are in the public domain, there is no freely-available 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:

• Social Networking and Constituent Communications: Member Use of Twitter During a Two-Month Period in the 111th Congress
• Metropolitan Transportation Planning
• Veterans Health Care: Project HERO Implementation
• Al Qaeda and Affiliates: Historical Perspective, Global Presence, and Implications for U.S. Policy
• The Rum Excise Tax Cover-Over: Legislative History and Current Issues
• Membership of the 111th Congress: A Profile
• Asian Pacific Americans in the United States Congress
• African-American Members of the United States Congress: 1870-2009
• Budget Enforcement Procedures: Senate Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Rule
• Business Investment and Employment Tax Incentives to Stimulate the Economy
• Campaign Finance Policy After Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: Issues and Options for Congress
• Central Asia: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests
• Climate Change and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS): Looking to 2020
• Constitutionality of Excluding Aliens from the Census for Apportionment and Redistricting Purposes
• CRS Issue Statement on Veterans' Benefits
• Cuba: Issues for the 111th Congress
• Federal Employee Benefits and Same-Sex Partnerships
• Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Expenditures
• Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion and Removal of Aliens
• Insurance and Financial Regulatory Reform in the 111th Congress
• Iran: Regional Perspectives and U.S. Policy
• Iraq: Politics, Elections, and Benchmarks
• Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons
• Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Offensive Reductions
• Potential Farm Sector Effects of 2009 H1N1 "Swine Flu": Questions and Answers
• Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA): Selected Regulatory and Legislative Issues
• Strategic Arms Control After START: Issues and Options
• Temporary Protected Status: Current Immigration Policy and Issues
• The Debt Limit: History and Recent Increases
• The Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF): State Insolvency and Federal Loans to States
• Unauthorized Alien Students, Higher Education, and In-State Tuition Rates: A Legal Analysis
• Water Infrastructure Funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• Yemen: Background 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.