New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Brazil in Crisis, CRS Insight, April 6, 2016
Peru: Politics, Economy, and Elections in Brief, April 6, 2016
Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances, updated April 6, 2016
United States Supreme Court: Criminal Law Cases in the October 2015 Term, April 6, 2016
Municipal Broadband: Background and Policy Debate, updated April 6, 2016
Federal Minimum Wage, Tax-Transfer Earnings Supplements, and Poverty, 2016 Update: In Brief, April 8, 2016
U.S. Sugar Program Fundamentals, updated April 6, 2016
U.S. Crude Oil Exports to International Destinations, CRS Insight, April 6, 2016
Durable and legitimate climate action requires a government capable of clearly weighting, explaining, and managing cost tradeoffs to the widest away of audiences, which in turn requires strong technocratic competency.
FAS is launching the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI) to build a new, transpartisan vision of government that works – that has the capacity to achieve ambitious goals while adeptly responding to people’s basic needs.
This runs counter to public opinion: 4 in 5 of all Americans, across party lines, want to see the government take stronger climate action.
Remaining globally competitive on critical clean technologies requires far more than pointing out that individual electric cars and rooftop solar panels might produce consumer savings.