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:

• China and the United States—A Comparison of Green Energy Programs and Policies
• Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Acquisition: Issues for Congress
• Securing America’s Borders: The Role of the Military
• Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Presidential Authority and the Separation of Powers
• Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Defamation and the First Amendment
• The Jurisprudence of Justice John Paul Stevens: Selected Opinions on the Jury’s Role in Criminal Sentencing
• Israel’s Blockade of Gaza and the Mavi Marmara Incident

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.