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 military, environment, energy, 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:

• Egypt: Background and U.S. Relations
• Political Transition in Tunisia
• National Security Letters: Proposals in the 112th Congress
• Murder or Attempted Murder of a Member of Congress and Other Federal Officials and Employees: Implications in Federal Criminal Law and Procedure of Events in Tucson
• The U.S. Foreign-Born Population: Trends and Selected Characteristics
• The Obama Administration’s Open Government Initiative: Issues for Congress
• Implication’s of Egypt’s Turmoil on Global Oil and Natural Gas Supply
• Israel’s Offshore Natural Gas Discoveries Enhance Its Economic and Energy Outlook
• Global Natural Gas: A Growing Resource
• The Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) and Early Infantry Brigade Combat Team (E-IBCT) Programs
• Cuba: Issues for the 112th Congress
• Mexico’s Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Rising Violence
• Is Biopower Carbon Neutral?
• Violence Against Members of Congress and Their Staff: Selected Examples and Congressional Responses
• The Obama Administration’s Feed the Future Initiative
• Egypt: The January 25 Revolution and Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
• Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Set to Expire February 28, 2011
• Intelligence Identities Protection Act
• Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues
• Nanotechnology and Environmental, Health, and Safety: Issues for Consideration
• Foreign Aid: An Introduction to U.S. Programs and Policy
• Shutdown of the Federal Government: Causes, Processes, and Effects
• Reaching the Debt Limit: Background and Potential Effects on Government Operations
• 401(k) Plans and Retirement Savings: Issues for Congress
• Abortion Services and Military Medical Facilities
• Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians
• Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance
• Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues
• China-U.S. Trade Issues
• Clean Air Issues in the 112th Congress
• Continuing Resolutions: Latest Action and Brief Overview of Recent Practices
• Emergency Communications: Broadband and the Future of 911
• Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity
• International Trade and Finance: Key Policy Issues for the 112th Congress
• Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues
• Iran Sanctions
• Litigation Seeking to Establish Climate Change Impacts as a Common Law
• Multilateral Development Banks: How the United States Makes and Implements Policy
• Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress
• Private Health Insurance Premiums and Rate Reviews
• Reauthorizing the Office of National Drug Control Policy: Issues for Consideration
• Reform of U.S. International Taxation: Alternatives
• Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA): A Summary of the Act and Its Major Requirements
• Somalia: Current Conditions and Prospects for a Lasting Peace
• Sudan: The Crisis in Darfur and Status of the North-South Peace Agreement
• Temporary Extension of Unemployment Benefits: Emergency Unemployment
• The Bush Tax Cuts and the Economy
• The Employee Free Choice Act
• The Federal Food Safety System: A Primer
• Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean
• U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress
• U.S.-China Relations: Policy Issues
• Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and "DREAM Act" Legislation
• Upcoming Rules Pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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.