CRS reports from this week

Today brings us another Tuesday and another collection of CRS reports. 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 North Korea, taxes, income inequality, 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:

• The REAL ID Act of 2005: Legal, Regulatory, and Implementation Issues
• The Social Security Number: Legal Developments Affecting Its Collection, Disclosure, and Confidentiality
• Congressional Authority To Limit U.S. Military Operations in Iraq
• Taiwan’s 2008 Presidential Election
• The North Korean Economy: Leverage and Policy Analysis
• The War Powers Resolution: After Thirty-Four Years
• The Federal Grand Jury
• Federalism, State Sovereignty and the Constitution: Basis and Limits of Congressional Power
• Public-Private Partnership Options for Managing Wireless Networks
• Trends in Discretionary Spending
• Expiration and Extension of the Individual Income Tax Cuts Enacted in 2001 Through 2007
• Medicaid Targeted Case Management (TCM) Benefits
• Tax Provisions of the Economic Stimulus Package
• Financial Turmoil: Federal Reserve Policy Responses
• Understanding Stagflation and the Risk of Its Recurrence
• Coal Mine Safety and Health
• The Disparity Between Retail Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Prices
• Medicaid and Outpatient Hospital Services
• The Conservation Reserve Program: Legal Analysis of Proposed Legislation to Change the Structure and Taxation of Benefits Received
• Medicaid Rehabilitation Services
• Retirement and Survivor Annuities for Former Spouses of Federal Employees
• Income Inequality, Income Mobility, and Economic Policy: U.S. Trends in the 1980s and 1990s
• The Role of Offsets in a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap-and-Trade Program: Potential Benefits and Concerns
• Oil Industry Profit Review 2007

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.