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 sciences, justice, 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 Secrecy News:

• Rare Earth Elements: the Global Supply Chain
• Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy
• Federal Civil and Criminal Penalties Possibly Applicable to Parties Responsible for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
• Public Employees’ Right to Privacy in Their Electronic Communications: City of Ontario v. Quon in the Supreme Court
• Samantar v. Yousef: The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Foreign Officials
• The European Union’s Response to the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
• Turkey: Politics of Identity and Power

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.