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 reports on the foreign relations, veterans affairs, immigration, and much more. 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 Open CRS and Secrecy News:

• Project Bioshield: Authorities, Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Issues for Congress
• Department of Defense Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Background and Analysis
• U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress
• Costs of Major U.S. Wars
• Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians
• Afghanistan: U.S. Foreign Assistance
• Argentina's Defaulted Sovereign Debt: Dealing with the "Holdouts"
• Brazil's WTO Case Against the U.S. Cotton Program
• China-U.S. Trade Issues
• Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress
• Conversion from the National Security Personnel System to Other Pay Schedules: Issues for Congress
• Cyprus: Reunification Proving Elusive
• Financing the U.S. Trade Deficit
• Foreign Investment in U.S. Securities
• From Solicitor General to Supreme Court Nominee: Responsibilities, History, and the Nomination of Elena Kagan
• Guantanamo Detention Center: Legislative Activity in the 111th Congress
• Honduran-U.S. Relations
• Instability and Humanitarian Conditions in Chad
• Iraq: Politics, Elections, and Benchmarks
• Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress
• Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress
• Organized Retail Crime
• Security Assistance Reform: "Section 1206" Background and Issues for Congress
• Spectrum Policy in the Age of Broadband: Issues for Congress
• State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2011 Budget and Appropriations
• Thailand: Background and U.S. Relations
• The "Volcker Rule": Proposals to Limit "Speculative" Proprietary Trading by Banks
• The 2010 Oil Spill: Criminal Liability Under Wildlife Laws
• The Americans with Disabilities Act and Emergency Preparedness and Response
• The New START Treaty: Central Limits and Key Provisions
• The SBA Disaster Loan Program: Overview and Possible Issues for Congress
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
• The United Arab Emirates (UAE): Issues for U.S. Policy
• Trade Law: An Introduction to Selected International Agreements and U.S. Laws
• U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress
• U.S.-Latin America Trade: Recent Trends and Policy Issues
• Veterans Affairs: "Gray Area Retirees"--Issues and Related Legislation
• Veterans Affairs: Benefits for Service-Connected Disabilities

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.