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 Afghanistan, Honduras, Southwest border violence, 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 Open CRS and Secrecy News:

• Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians
  
• African American Members of the United States Congress: 1870-2009
• China-North Korea Relations
• Honduran Political Crisis, June 2009-January 2010
  
• Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2009
• Satellite Surveillance: Domestic Issues
• Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence
  

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.