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Congressional Research Service (CRS)

A division of the Library of Congress that prepares short, neutral reports on legislative initiatives and other topics at the request of Congress.

Full-Text Reports

• LexisNexis Congressional Research Service Reports CU This is a full-text collection of CRS reports from 1916 to present.
• Congress:
• House provides CRS publications relating to Congress on history of the House, rules, introducing bills, committee action, floor action, the budget process, resolving differences, and presidential actions.
• Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) provides access to selected CRS publications.
• Committee for the National Institute for the Environment provides: Congressional Research Service Reports on the Environment from 1993 to the present on environmental topics such as biodiversity and climate change, as well as publications on budgeting and taxation as related to the environment.
• Congressional Research Service this site is a "custom Google search" to search CRS reports available on the web.
• CRS Reports and Issue Briefs The Information Warfare Site provides access to full-text CRS reports on homeland security, Iraq, intelligence, and other national security issues.
• Congressional Research Service Reports That Were Pulled from the Web The Websites of Congressmen Mark Green and Christopher Shays provided a gateway to a CRS internal database before October 2003, when both sites suddenly shut off access. The Memory Hole had copied many of these reports before the curtain came down and made them available from this page.
• Federation of American Scientists provides CRS Publications on the following topics:
  • CRS Reports on Intelligence and Related Topics
  • CRS Reports on Military and National Security
  • CRS Reports on Nuclear, Chemical and Missile Weapons and Proliferation
  • CRS Reports on Secrecy and Security
  • CRS Reports on Space Policy
• OpenCRS (Congressional Research Reports for the People), this project by the Center for Democracy and Technology, tries to collect and dissenemate CRS reports.
• University of Maryland, CRS Reports The Thurgood Marshall Law library has collected CRS reports in the areas of Homeland Security/Terrorism and Health Law and Policy.
• University of North Texas, CRS Reports the University of North Texas has collected and created metadata for CRS reports available via the web.
• U.S. Embassy Italy - CRS Reports provides links to full-text CRS reports on arms control, e-commerce, global finance, terrorism, the U.S. and EU, the U.S. and Russia. and other U.S. policy issues.
• US State Department Foreign Press Center: CRS and other key reports on foreign policy issues such as NAFTA, international aid, presidential powers, terrorism, international responses to the HIV/AIDs crisis, global climate change, and relations with specific countries. Browse by date (year and month) for reports issued from 1999 to the present.

• Congressional Research Service (CRS) Penny Hill Press has a topically arranged bibliography of recent CRS reports. We need the publication date and report number from the bibliography to locate the microfiche copies in the CU collections. You can get the microfiche by bringing the date and report number to the Government Publications Library Reference Desk.
• Congressional Research Service Index (CD-ROM, LC14.17/4, Government Publications Reference Desk) includes citations to CRS reports 1916-present. The Government Publications Library owns a comprehensive collection on microfilm and microfiche.
• Major Studies & Issue Briefs of the Congressional Research Service (Z 733 U63 C653, Government Publications Reference Area) provides an index to CRS reports from 1916 to the present.