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 secrecy, foreign relations, military issues, 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:

• Russian Military Reform and Defense Policy
• Criminal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information
• Protection of Classified Information by Congress: Practices and Proposals
• The State Secrets Privilege: Preventing the Disclosure of Sensitive National Security Information During Civil Litigation
• Intelligence Issues for Congress
• The Palestinians: Background and U.S. Relations
• U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians

Interested in historical CRS reports? If you are here at the Boulder campus, check out the Proquest 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.