From the Congressional Research Service

report you can request it from your Senator or Representative. This list is compiled from The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a research agency of Congress and writes reports at Congress's request. These short reports (usually 10-40 pages long) cover recent topics of concern. This week brings us CRS reports on the NASA, Iraq, child welfare, and much more. While these reports are in the public domain there is no central database available to the public. To get a copy of a CRSCRS reports discovered by Secrecy News and OpenCRS:

• The U.S. Postal Service's Use of Contractors to Deliver Mail
• Operation Iraqi Freedom: Strategies, Approaches, Results, and Issues for Congress
• Aviation Security: Background and Policy Options for Screening and Securing Air Cargo
• Child Welfare Issues in the 110th Congress
• Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress
• Russia's 2008 Presidential Succession
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Overview, FY2009 Budget, and Issues for Congress
• USDA Meat Inspection and the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act
• The Credit Card Market: Recent Trends, Funding Cost Issues, and Repricing Practices
• Consumer Product Safety Commission: Current Issues
• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Issues and Arguments
• The D.C. Circuit Rejects EPA's Mercury Rules: New Jersey v. EPA
• Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons and Missiles: Status and Trends
• Water Infrastructure Needs and Investment: Review and Analysis of Key Issues
• Russian Energy Policy toward Neighboring Countries
• North American Oil Sands: History of Development, Prospects for the Future
• Fusion Centers: Issues and Options for Congress
• The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: A Brief Overview of Selected Issues
• The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Comparison of House-Passed H.R. 3773, S. 2248 as Reported By the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and S. 2248 as Reported Out of the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Defense Contracting in Iraq: Issues and Options for Congress
• FY2009 Defense Budget: Issues for Congress
  

Interested in historical CRS reports? If you are here at the Boulder campus, check out the LexisNexis Congressional database, which has reports 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.