This week from the Congressional Research Service

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 theIraq, violence against women, and virtual reality, 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:

• Tibet: Problems, Prospects, and U.S. Policy
• Judicial Review of Removal Orders
• Avatars, Virtual Reality Technology, and the U.S. Military: Emerging Policy Issues
• International Violence Against Women: U.S. Response and Policy Issues
• Awards of Attorneys’ Fees by Federal Courts and Federal Agencies
• The Executive Office of the President: An Historical Overview
• Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment
• United States Military Casualty Statistics: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
• Iraqi Civilian Deaths Estimates

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.