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.

Live API

This dataset is served via a live REST API at api.ai-analytics.org. The card you're reading exists so HuggingFace's index can route AI agents + researchers to the canonical source.

API endpoint: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/crs/reports/recent
Dataset landing page: https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/crs-reports
DataCatalog (JSON-LD): https://api.ai-analytics.org/.well-known/dataset.json
DCAT-US (data.gov-compatible): https://api.ai-analytics.org/data.json

Quick start

# Recent records (JSON)
curl 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/crs/reports/recent?limit=10'

# Browse on the web
open 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/crs-reports'

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

This dataset is also accessible via MCP at https://api.ai-analytics.org/mcp — Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible agents can call it directly.

Source

Agency: US Congressional Research Service (Library of Congress)
Primary source: https://www.everycrsreport.com/
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (derived data). Underlying federal works are US public domain under 5 USC 105 / 17 USC 105.
Update cadence: Per agency (most refresh daily via Cloudflare Cron Trigger)

Keywords

CRS, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, policy analysis, congressional staff, In Focus, Legal Sidebar

Citation

@misc{ai_analytics_crs_reports_2026,
  title  = {{name}},
  author = {AI Analytics},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/crs-reports},
  note   = {Derived from US Congressional Research Service (Library of Congress). License: CC0 1.0.}
}

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