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 energy, water, development 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:

• "Gang of Four" Congressional Intelligence Notifications
• Airport Improvement Program (AIP): Reauthorization Issues for Congress
• Aviation and Climate Change
• Ballast Water Management to Combat Invasive Species
• Border Security: Key Agencies and Their Missions
• Community Development Block Grant Funds in Disaster Relief and Recovery
• Comparison of Rights in Military Commission Trials and Trials in Federal Criminal Court
• Congress as a Consumer of Intelligence Information
• Currency Manipulation: The IMF and WTO
• Disaster Relief Funding and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
• Federal Information Security and Data Breach Notification Laws
• Federal Stafford Act Disaster Assistance: Presidential Declarations, Eligible Activities, and Funding
• Immigration Policies and Issues on Health-Related Grounds for Exclusion
• Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges
• Intermediate-Level Blends of Ethanol in Gasoline, and the Ethanol "Blend Wall"
• International Law and Agreements: Their Effect Upon U.S. Law
• Israeli-Arab Negotiations: Background, Conflicts, and U.S. Policy
• Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections
• Mandatory Flood Insurance Purchase in Remapped Residual Risk Areas Behind Levees
• Multilateral Development Banks: U.S. Contributions FY1998-FY2009
• Public Safety Communications and Spectrum Resources: Policy Issues for Congress
• Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S. Interests
• Sensitive Covert Action Notifications: Oversight Options for Congress
• Spectrum Policy in the Age of Broadband: Issues for Congress
• The European Parliament
• The Proposed Comcast-NBC Universal Combination: How It Might Affect the Video Market
• U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress
• U.S. Trade Policy and the Caribbean: From Trade Preferences to Free Trade Agreements
• Veterans Health Administration: Community-Based Outpatient Clinics

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.