CRS reports from this week

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 subprime mortgages, refugees, child molestation, 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 CRS report you can request it from your Senator or Representative. This list is compiled from CRS reports discovered by Secrecy News and OpenCRS:

• Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) Program
• Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
• The FY2009 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Nicaragua: Political Situation and U.S. Relations
• Merida Initiative: Proposed U.S. Anticrime and Counterdrug Assistance for Mexico and Central America
• Disability Retirement for Federal Employees
• Estate and Gift Tax Revenues: Past and Projected in 2008
• The Budget for Fiscal Year 2009
• Bear Stearns: Crisis and "Rescue" for a Major Provider of Mortgage-Related Products
• Organizing for Homeland Security: The Homeland Security Council Reconsidered
• North Korea's Abduction of Japanese Citizens and the Six-Party Talks
• Medicaid and Graduate Medical Education
• Averting Financial Crisis
• Satellite Surveillance: Domestic Issues
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Reforms: Regulatory Impacts Upon Innovation and Competition
• Medicaid Provider Taxes
• Capital Punishment: Constitutionality for Non-Homicide Crimes Such as Child Rape
• The NATO Summit at Bucharest, 2008
• Government Interventions in Financial Markets: Economic and Historic Analysis of Subprime Mortgage Options
• Medicaid Regulation of Governmental Providers
• The Energy and Water Development appropriations bill provides funding for civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the Department
• Medicaid Financing
• Enlargement Issues at NATO’s Bucharest Summit
• Selected Federal Homeland Security Assistance Programs: A Summary
• Selected Laws Governing the Disclosure of Customer Phone Records by Telecommunications Carriers
  

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.