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 foreign relations, military, 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:

• Piracy: A Legal Definition
• Proliferation Control Regimes: Background and Status
• Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress
• Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. 924(e)): An Overview
• Homeland Security Department: FY2011 Appropriations
• India-U.S. Relations

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.