New or updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
The Depreciating Dollar: Economic Effects and Policy Response, February 23, 2012
Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve: Current Policy and Conditions, January 30, 2012
Evaluating the Current Stance of Monetary Policy Using a Taylor Rule, January 30, 2012
Who Earns Pass-Through Business Income? An Analysis of Individual Tax Return Data, February 16, 2012
Taiwan: Major U.S. Arms Sales Since 1990, February 24, 2012
Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress, February 27, 2012
Energy Projects on Federal Lands: Leasing and Authorization, February 1, 2012
Financial Performance of the Major Oil Companies, 2007-2011, February 17, 2012
The research community lacks strategies to incentivize collaboration on high-quality data acquisition and sharing. The government should fund collaborative roadmapping, certification, collection, and sharing of large, high-quality datasets in life science.
The potential of new nuclear power plants to meet energy demand, increase energy security, and revitalize local economies depends on new regulatory and operational approaches at the NRC.
In anticipation of future known and unknown health security threats, including new pandemics, biothreats, and climate-related health emergencies, our answers need to be much faster, cheaper, and less disruptive to other operations.
To unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence within the Department of Health and Human Services, an AI Corps should be established, embedding specialized AI experts within each of the department’s 10 agencies.