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:

• Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Selected Issues for Congress
• Deferred Examination of Patent Applications: Implications for Innovation Policy
• Post-Employment, ‘Revolving Door,’ Laws for Federal Personnel
• A New United Nations Entity for Women: Issues for Congress
• Democratic Reforms in Taiwan: Issues for Congress
• Detection of Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Science, Technologies, Observations

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.