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:

• Pakistan: Key Current Issues and Developments
• Intelligence Reform After Five Years: The Role of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
• Questioning Supreme Court Nominees About Their Views on Legal or Constitutional Issues: A Recurring Issue
• The ‘Volcker Rule’: Proposals to Limit ‘Speculative’ Proprietary Trading by Banks
• The Nunn-McCurdy Act: Background, Analysis, and Issues for Congress
• Environmental Considerations in Federal Procurement: An Overview of the Legal Authorities and Their Implementation
• EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases: Congressional Responses and Options

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.