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Search CRS Reports
Library of Congress Site

https://crsreports.congress.gov/search/#/
Every CRS Report by Topic
Source - Every CRS Report.com

https://www.everycrsreport.com/topics.html
CRS Reports by Topic
Source - Federation of American Scientists

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/

LOC Archived Websites

The Library of Congress Web Archives
Search CATEGORIES on left side

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2019/01/the-library-of-congress-web-archives-dipping-a-toe-in-a-lake-of-data/
Search Archived Web Sites

https://www.loc.gov/websites/

Read these First!

Congressional Research Service Website
Review Organizational Structure: Interdisciplinary Research Divisions

http://www.loc.gov/crsinfo/
CRS Reports
Article by Stephen Young on LLRX.com

http://www.llrx.com/features/crsreports.htm
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
A dated article but useful to understand the structure of CRS.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congressional_Research_Service
CRS Legislative Subject Terms Used in THOMAS
"Beginning with the 111th Cong. all legislative measures are assigned at least one Subject term drawn from a list of terms."

http://thomas.loc.gov/help/terms-subjects.html
Why I Quit the Congressional Research Service
Veteran CRS Researcher Explains Why He Quit

http://goo.gl/HKCcXc

Annual CRS Reports

Congressional Research Service Annual Reports
20 years of CRS Annual Reports

https://www.scribd.com/collections/14362884/Congressional-Research-Service-Annual-Reports

General Accounting Office

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
"Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars."

http://www.gao.gov
Reports & Testimonies
Updated daily

http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/repandtest.html
Reports and Testimonies: Browse by Topic
Searchable with date limiting

http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/topic.php
Legal Decisions, Opinions, and Resources
"legal decisions and legal opinions on appropriations law, bid protests, and other issues of federal law."

http://www.gao.gov/legal/index.html
Teacher Preparation
"Teacher Preparation for Instructing Students with Disabilities and English Language Learners"

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09573.pdf
Testimonies of the Comptroller General

http://www.gao.gov/cghome/2008D/index.htm
Topic Collections
Collections of reports and testimonies in selected topics

http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/featured/index.html

Agricultural

National Law Agricultural Center
Agriculture and Food Issues

http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/crs/

Civil Liberties

Directories (.com & .org)

Articles in category - Congressional Research Service
Links to reports

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Congressional_Research_Service
Center for Democracy & Technology
Review Recent Reports on the right side of the website.

http://opencrs.cdt.org/
National Council for Science and the Environment
Environmental and related topic: Check the New and Updated Reports link

http://www.ncseonline.org/programs/science-policy/crs-reports
Penny Hill Press ($ Cost per Report)

http://www.pennyhill.com/
Federation of American Scientists

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/
Public Intelligence Blog
"a repository and point of reference for all who wish to pursue the practice of creating public intelligence (decision-support)

http://www.phibetaiota.net/2013/07/congression-research-service-catalog/

Directories (.edu)

University of North Texas
Best of the Best! Use the Browse CRS Reports Archive by Subject

http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
Collected by Stanford University, Social Sciences Resource Group

http://archive-it.org/collections/1078
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
Homeland Security/Terrorism and Health Law and Policy

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/crsreports/
University of Oregon

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/leg-crs.html

Earmarks

Earmark Disclosures: WashingtonWatch.com
Database of Congress' earmark requests

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/earmarks/
Earmarks
OMB (U.S. Office of Management and Budget) database with information on Congressional appropriations earmarks

http://www.earmarks.omb.gov

Energy and Environmental

National Council for Science and the Environment

http://www.ncseonline.org/programs/science-policy/crs-reports
U.S. Fossil Fuel Resources: Terminology, Reporting, and Summary

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=04212e22-c1b3-41f2-b0ba-0da5eaead952

First Amendment

First Amendment Center

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?item=crs_reports
Show Us the Data: Most Wanted Federal Documents
See: The Ten Most Wanted Documents for 2009 (CRS Reports is first.)

http://www.openthegovernment.org/otg/TopTenReport.pdf

Foreign Policy

Air War College
Foreign Policy & National Security

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®)
Enter "congressional research service" into query box to search DTIC collection.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/search/tr/index.html
U.S. Department of State
Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs

http://fpc.state.gov/c18185.htm

Government Sources (.gov)

U.S. Department of State
Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs

http://fpc.state.gov/c18185.htm
U.S. Department of Justice
"relevance to Fusion Centers and Justice and Public Safety Agencies"

http://www.it.ojp.gov/default.aspx?area=privacy&page=1264
Senate Committee on Rules & Administration
"How Congress Works"

http://rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=CRSReports

Immigration

CRS Immigration Reports
Congressional Research Service Reports

http://www.ilw.com/immigrationdaily/news/crs.shtm

Intellectual Property, Cyberlaw, and E-commerce

International Affairs

The United States Mission to the European Union
European Union, transatlantic, and related issues

http://useu.usmission.gov/CRS_Reports_Page.asp
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®)
Enter "congressional research service" into query box to search DTIC collection.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/search/tr/index.html

Middle East

National Security

Air War College
Foreign Policy & National Security

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs
Federation of American Scientists
National Security

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/index.html
National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

http://opencrs.cdt.org/collection/mipt
University of Maryland Thurgood Marshall Law Library
Homeland Security/Terrorism & Health Law & Policy

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/crsreports/index.html
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®)
Enter "congressional research service" into the query box.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic

Other Student Research Sources

Student Research Resources on the Internet 2016
Directory of sources

http://www.llrx.com/features/studentresearchresources.htm

United Kingdom and Canada