Congressional Research Service Reports

"The Congressional Research Service is where Members of Congress turn for the nonpartisan research, analysis, and information they need to make informed decisions on behalf of the American people." - CRS Web site.

"Until recently, the reports' existence was almost a state secret. Part of the invisible Web, CRS Reports are not indexed, announced, or listed on the CRS Web site, but several organizations and libraries now harvest or collect these reports and provide them as a public service on their own sites." - Online, November/December 2005.

Here are places where you can find the reports.

Congressional Research Service (Information about CRS)
OpenCRS
University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries
National Council for Science and the Environment
Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland School of Law
Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Penny Hill Press -- must pay a fee for documents from this site

Want more information? Read Deborah A. Liptak's article "Congressional Research Service Reports Revealed". Online. Vol.29, Issue 6, 2005. p 23.

You can get the full text online using Central Search.

Use the Advanced Search option and select ISSN from the drop-down box to the right of the search box. The ISSN number for Online is 0146-5422.
Type Congressional Research Service Reports Revealed in the second search box and select Title from the drop-down box.
Click in box to the left of QUICK SEARCH and hit the Search button.

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