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 only a few reports, 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 Secrecy News:

• Burma’s 2010 Elections: Implications of the New Constitution and Election Laws
• Greece’s Debt Crisis: Overview, Policy Responses, and Implications
• State Efforts to Deter Unauthorized Aliens: Legal Analysis of Arizona’s S.B. 1070
• Legislative Approaches to Defining ‘Waters of the United States’
• State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2011 Budget and Appropriations
• Latin America and the Caribbean: Illicit Drug Trafficking and U.S. Counterdrug Programs

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.