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Congressional Research Service [CRS] Reports
The Congressional Research Service, a component of the Library of Congress, conducts research and analysis for Congress on a broad range of national policy issues. The official CRS public portal, which includes many but not all CRS reports, is here.
National Security and Defense Policy
Defense Primers
Middle East
Foreign Policy and Regional Affairs
Secrecy and Information Policy
Intelligence
Homeland Security
Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control
Conventional Weapons Systems
Terrorism
Miscellaneous Topics
CRS Annual Reports
- CRS Annual Reports, 1971-2024, via Daniel Schuman
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- CRS Policy on Confidentiality, September 22, 2015
- Considerations Arising from the Public Dissemination of CRS Products, April 2015
- CRS at 100: The Centennial of the Congressional Research Service, 2014
- Message to CRS Staff on Handling of Classified Information and Use of Materials of Uncertain Classification Status from CRS Director Dan Mulhollan, December 6, 2010
- The Congressional Research Service and the American Legislative Process, April 12, 2011
- Access to CRS Reports, memo to all CRS staff from director Daniel P. Mulhollan, April 18, 2007
- CRS Director Responds to Wall Street Journal on Earmark Reporting, March 26, 2007
- Distribution of CRS Products to Non-Congressionals, March 20, 2007
- CRS Policy on Interacting with the Media, January 16, 2007
- Outside Activities: Preserving Objectivity and Non-Partisanship, Director's Statement, CRS Director Daniel P. Mulhollan, January 23, 2004
- CRS Standards for Analysis by Louis Fisher, CRS Senior Specialist, January 31, 2004
- Outside Writing, Lecturing Activities by CRS Staff: Objectivity, CREAgram from the CRS employees' union, May 12, 2004
- Congressional Policy Concerning the Distribution of CRS Written Products, March 9, 1999
- People of the Week: A Profile of the Legislative Reference Service (1947), The United States News