Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports (23,189 — full archive)

Dataset · US Congressional Research Service (Library of Congress) · primary source ↗

Every CRS report from 1995-2026 — non-partisan policy analysis written for members of Congress on every major federal issue. Until 2018 these were technically restricted to congressional staff; now publicly available. Series breakdown: **R 6,895 (full reports), RL 4,280 (legacy long reports), IF 3,198 (In Focus 2-page briefs), RS 2,433 (short reports), IN 2,360 (Insights), LSB 1,365 (Legal Sidebars)**, plus older 98-/97-/96-/95- numbered series. Every issue Congress considers gets a CRS analysis — defense, healthcare, immigration, tax policy, foreign affairs, science/tech, environment, judiciary, civil rights. Source: everycrsreport.com/reports.csv (3rd-party archive that predates the 2018 release). Loader parses CSV with 23,199 rows. Each report has CRS ID, title, publication date, PDF + HTML links.

Source agency
US Congressional Research Service (Library of Congress)
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
23,189 reports
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Keywords

CRSCongressional Research ServiceLibrary of Congresspolicy analysiscongressional staffIn FocusLegal Sidebar

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://www.everycrsreport.com/. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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