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63 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

Congressional and Executive Authority Over Foreign Trade Agreements
2025-09-25 · Reports · R47679 · HTML available · PDF available
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Origins, Evolution, and Use
2025-09-01 · Reports · R45618 · HTML available · PDF available
Constitutional Considerations in Member Involvement in Executive Agency Actions
2025-08-29 · Posts · LSB11356 · HTML available · PDF available
H.R. 1 Limitation on Enforcement of Contempt Orders: Selected Legal Considerations
2025-06-12 · Posts · LSB11323 · HTML available · PDF available
Large-Scale Staff Reductions to AmeriCorps: Potential Impacts and the Chief Executive Officer’s Discretionary Authority
2025-05-02 · Resources · IF12983 · HTML available · PDF available
Organizing Executive Branch Agencies: Structure and Delegations of Authority
2025-05-02 · Reports · R48523 · HTML available · PDF available
Executive Clemency and Judicial Power: Legal Overview and Recent Caselaw
2025-04-25 · Posts · LSB11294 · HTML available · PDF available
Congressional and Presidential Authority to Impose Import Tariffs
2025-04-23 · Reports · R48435 · HTML available · PDF available
Enforcement of Court Orders Against the Executive Branch
2025-04-18 · Posts · LSB11271 · HTML available · PDF available
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (NEA), and Tariffs: Historical Background and Key Issues
2025-04-07 · Posts · IN11129 · 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
Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration: D.C. Circuit Challenges CEQ’s Authority to Issue NEPA Regulations
2025-01-15 · Posts · LSB11260 · HTML available · PDF available
The North Atlantic Treaty: U.S. Legal Obligations and Congressional Authorities
2025-01-06 · Posts · LSB11256 · HTML available · PDF available
Restoring Congressional Power over VA After Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
2024-12-18 · Testimony · TE10108 · HTML available · PDF available
Congressional Oversight and Investigations
2024-12-03 · Resources · IF10015 · HTML available · PDF available
Removal to Federal Court of Cases Against Federal Officials and Agents
2024-11-13 · Posts · LSB11213 · HTML available · PDF available
The Exceptions Clause and Congressional Control over Supreme Court Jurisdiction
2024-10-30 · Reports · R48250 · HTML available · PDF available
Constitutional Challenges to the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program
2024-10-10 · Reports · R47682 · HTML available · PDF available
United States v. Bannon: Criminal Contempt of Congress and Bad Faith
2024-07-01 · Posts · LSB11190 · HTML available · PDF available
The Deliberative Process Privilege in Congress
2024-04-16 · Resources · IF12634 · HTML available · PDF available
Presidential Immunity, Criminal Liability, and the Impeachment Judgment Clause
2024-03-04 · Posts · LSB11121 · 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
The Presidential Records Act: An Overview
2023-12-18 · Reports · R46129 · HTML available · PDF available
Congressional Control over the Supreme Court
2023-12-06 · Reports · R47382 · HTML available · PDF available
Impeachment and the Constitution
2023-12-06 · Reports · R46013 · HTML available · PDF available
Congressional Displacement of the State Secrets Privilege and Article II
2023-12-05 · Posts · LSB11086 · 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
Breaking the Logjam Part 3: Restoring Transparency and Accountability in the Accommodation Process
2023-09-20 · Testimony · TE10086 · 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
Enlisting Assistance or Intruding On Judicial Independence? Compelling Testimony by Supreme Court Justices
2023-05-09 · Posts · LSB10962 · HTML available · PDF available
Fifth Circuit: CFPB’s Funding Authority is Unconstitutional
2023-03-09 · Posts · LSB10891 · HTML available · PDF available
Recurring Constitutional Issues in Federal Legislation
2022-12-20 · Resources · IF12292 · HTML available · PDF available
Introduction to Criminal Referrals by Congress
2022-12-20 · Posts · LSB10879 · HTML available · PDF available
Litigating the January 6 Committee’s Subpoena to Former President Trump
2022-11-17 · Posts · LSB10864 · HTML available · PDF available
The Major Questions Doctrine
2022-11-02 · Resources · IF12077 · HTML available · PDF available
Removal Protections for Administrative Adjudicators: Constitutional Scrutiny and Considerations for Congress
2022-09-21 · Posts · LSB10823 · HTML available · PDF available
Naval Station Guantanamo Bay: History and Legal Issues Regarding Its Lease Agreements
2022-08-01 · Reports · R44137 · HTML available · PDF available
Supreme Court Addresses Major Questions Doctrine and EPA’s Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2022-07-12 · Posts · LSB10791 · HTML available · PDF available
Double Jeopardy, Dual Sovereignty, and Enforcement of Tribal Laws
2022-06-16 · Posts · LSB10763 · HTML available · PDF available
The Supreme Court’s “Major Questions” Doctrine: Background and Recent Developments
2022-05-17 · Posts · LSB10745 · HTML available · PDF available
Congress’s Delegation of “Major Questions”: The Supreme Court’s Review of EPA’s Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions May Have Broad Impacts
2021-12-07 · Posts · LSB10666 · HTML available · PDF available
Nationwide Injunctions: Recent Legal Developments
2021-12-02 · Posts · LSB10664 · HTML available · PDF available
Does the President Have the Power to Legalize Marijuana?
2021-11-04 · Posts · LSB10655 · HTML available · PDF available
Supreme Court Preserves Patent Trial and Appeal Board, but with Greater Executive Oversight
2021-06-29 · Posts · LSB10615 · HTML available · PDF available
Supreme Court: Structure of Federal Housing Finance Agency Violates Constitution
2021-06-28 · Posts · LSB10614 · HTML available · PDF available
Civil Enforcement of Congressional Authorities
2021-06-08 · Testimony · TE10064 · HTML available · PDF available
The Law of Foreign Missions and Media in U.S.-China Relations
2021-05-20 · Posts · LSB10601 · HTML available · PDF available
OLC: Congressional Notice Period Prior to Withdrawing from Treaty Unconstitutional
2021-05-18 · Posts · LSB10600 · HTML available · PDF available