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 environment, secrecy, economics, 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:

• American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat
• The Mexican Economy After the Global Financial Crisis
• Deflation: Economic Significance, Current Risk, and Policy Responses
• The Freedom of Information Act and Nondisclosure Provisions in Other Federal Laws
• The Role of Trade Secrets in Innovation Policy
• Regulating Coal Combustion Waste Disposal: Issues for Congress
• The SPEECH Act: The Federal Response to ‘Libel Tourism’
• The Bush Tax Cuts and the Economy

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.