The Congressional Research Service prepared 1,197 new reports and publications last year, as well as 2,471 updates of previous reports. The new reports were identified by title and number in an internal version of the CRS annual report for fiscal year 2016 that has not been previously made public.
Among the notable 2016 reports listed in the new annual report but not previously cited here were these:
Closing Space: Restrictions on Civil Society Around the World and U.S. Responses, April 8, 2016
U.S. Electronic Attack Aircraft, July 26, 2016
The public version of the CRS annual report that is posted on the Library of Congress website is abridged and does not include the listing of new CRS products or other appendices from the full report.
Newly updated Congressional Research Service reports from the past week include these:
Stafford Act Assistance and Acts of Terrorism, June 2, 2017
Small Business Administration: A Primer on Programs and Funding, June 5, 2017
The Debt Limit Since 2011, June 5, 2017
Iran: Politics, Human Rights, and U.S. Policy, June 2, 2017
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