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88 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

Government Shutdowns and Legislative Branch Operations: Frequently Asked Questions
2025-09-30 · Posts · IN12259 · HTML available · PDF available
Congressional and Executive Authority Over Foreign Trade Agreements
2025-09-25 · Reports · R47679 · HTML available · PDF available
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day: Fact Sheet
2025-08-25 · Reports · R48174 · HTML available · PDF available
Forced-Reset Triggers: Recent Executive Action and Issues for Congress
2025-07-07 · Posts · IN12582 · HTML available · PDF available
Hobby Distillers Association v. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau: The Limits on Taxing Schemes to Regulate Behavior
2025-05-05 · Posts · LSB11305 · HTML available · PDF available
Congressional and Presidential Authority to Impose Import Tariffs
2025-04-23 · Reports · R48435 · HTML available · PDF available
Recess Appointments: A Legal Overview
2025-03-19 · Resources · IF12946 · HTML available · PDF available
Contempt Actions in the 118th Congress
2025-02-12 · Resources · IF12907 · HTML available · PDF available
Disclosure of Federal Tax Return Information to Congressional Committees
2025-01-07 · Reports · R48323 · HTML available · PDF available
Congressional Oversight and Investigations
2024-12-03 · Resources · IF10015 · HTML available · PDF available
The Exceptions Clause and Congressional Control over Supreme Court Jurisdiction
2024-10-30 · Reports · R48250 · HTML available · PDF available
Legislative Branch Agency Appointments: History, Processes, and Recent Actions
2024-10-16 · Reports · R42072 · HTML available · PDF available
Continuity of Congress: Preparing for the Future by Learning from the Past
2024-09-18 · Testimony · TE10107 · HTML available · PDF available
Components of Federal Criminal Law
2024-09-12 · Reports · R48177 · HTML available · PDF available
The Congressional Review Act (CRA): A Brief Overview
2024-08-29 · Resources · IF10023 · HTML available · PDF available
The Army Clause, Part 2: Drafting and Ratification History
2024-07-22 · Posts · LSB11205 · HTML available · PDF available
The Army Clause, Part 5: Relationship with Principles of Federalism
2024-07-22 · Posts · LSB11208 · HTML available · PDF available
The Army Clause, Part 4: Role in Individual Rights Cases
2024-07-22 · Posts · LSB11207 · HTML available · PDF available
The Army Clause, Part 3: Appropriations, Conscription, and War Materials
2024-07-22 · Posts · LSB11206 · HTML available · PDF available
The Army Clause, Part 1: Overview and Historical Background
2024-07-22 · Posts · LSB11204 · HTML available · PDF available
The Eighth Amendment and Homelessness: Supreme Court Upholds Camping Ordinances in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
2024-07-19 · Posts · LSB11203 · HTML available · PDF available
United States v. Bannon: Criminal Contempt of Congress and Bad Faith
2024-07-01 · Posts · LSB11190 · HTML available · PDF available
Supreme Court Declines to Decide Whether Sixteenth Amendment Requires “Realization” to Tax Income
2024-06-27 · Posts · LSB11185 · HTML available · PDF available
United States Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC: Congressional Intent in Determining Remedies for Violations of the Bankruptcy Clause Uniformity Requirement
2024-06-26 · Posts · LSB11184 · HTML available · PDF available
The Hur Tapes and the President’s Claim of Executive Privilege
2024-05-29 · Posts · LSB11172 · HTML available · PDF available
The Deliberative Process Privilege in Congress
2024-04-16 · Resources · IF12634 · HTML available · PDF available
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 4: Early Congressional Action
2024-03-28 · Posts · LSB11134 · HTML available · PDF available
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 1: Introduction
2024-03-28 · Posts · LSB11131 · HTML available · PDF available
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 2: Federal Convention Debates
2024-03-28 · Posts · LSB11132 · HTML available · PDF available
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 3: History of Presidential Succession
2024-03-28 · Posts · LSB11133 · HTML available · PDF available
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 5: Congressional Debates
2024-03-28 · Posts · LSB11135 · HTML available · PDF available
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 6: Final Approval and Implementation
2024-03-28 · Posts · LSB11136 · HTML available · PDF available
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment and Presidential Inability, Part 7: Issues for Congress
2024-03-28 · Posts · LSB11137 · HTML available · PDF available
September 12, 2023, Is Estimated to Be the Beginning of the Congressional Review Act “Lookback” Period
2024-01-24 · Posts · IN12307 · HTML available · PDF available
Congress’s Power over Court Decisions: Jurisdiction Stripping and the Rule of Klein
2024-01-19 · Reports · R44967 · HTML available · PDF available
Supreme Court Considers Scope of Congress’s Sixteenth Amendment Income Taxing Power in Moore v. United States
2024-01-08 · Posts · LSB11100 · HTML available · PDF available
Committee Discretion in Obtaining Witness Testimony
2023-12-22 · Posts · LSB11093 · HTML available · PDF available
Impeachment Investigations, Part II: Access
2023-12-15 · Posts · LSB11083 · HTML available · PDF available
Clear Statement Rules, Textualism, and the Administrative State
2023-12-04 · Posts · LSB11084 · HTML available · PDF available
Expulsion of Members of Congress: Legal Authority and Historical Practice
2023-11-07 · Reports · R45078 · HTML available · PDF available
International Agreements (Part I): Overview and Agreement-Making Process
2023-09-29 · Posts · LSB11048 · HTML available · PDF available
Legal Issues in Impeachment Investigations, Part I: Authorization
2023-09-29 · Posts · LSB11051 · HTML available · PDF available
International Agreements (Part II): Examining Tools for Congressional Influence Over International Instruments
2023-09-29 · Posts · LSB11049 · HTML available · PDF available
A Bar Too High: Concerns with CEQ’s Proposed Regulatory Hurdle for Federal Contracting
2023-09-20 · Testimony · TE10085 · HTML available · PDF available
Mountain Valley Pipeline Litigation Tests Congress’s Power to Limit Federal Court Jurisdiction
2023-08-17 · Posts · LSB11010 · HTML available · PDF available
From Slip Law to United States Code: A Guide to Federal Statutes for Congressional Offices
2023-06-12 · Reports · R45190 · HTML available · PDF available
Criminal Contempt of Congress: Frequently Asked Questions
2023-06-05 · Posts · LSB10974 · HTML available · PDF available
Congressional Investigation of the Trump Indictment
2023-04-19 · Posts · LSB10950 · HTML available · PDF available
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment and Congressional Compensation Part 3: Debates over the Constitution’s Ratification
2023-03-14 · Posts · LSB10932 · HTML available · PDF available
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment and Congressional Compensation Part 5: Scope of the Amendment
2023-03-14 · Posts · LSB10934 · HTML available · PDF available