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:

• People Crossing Borders: An Analysis of U.S. Border Protection Policies
• Potential Stafford Act Declarations for the Gulf Coast Oil Spill: Issues for Congress
  
• FY2010 Supplemental for Wars, Disaster Assistance, Haiti Relief, and Court Cases
• Terrorism, Miranda, and Related Matters
• Defense: FY2011 Authorization and Appropriations
• Quadrennial Defense Review 2010: Overview and Implications for National Security Planning
• North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation
• Ballistic Missile Defense and Offensive Arms Reductions: A Review of the Historical Record

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.