New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made available to the public include the following.
Table Egg Production and Hen Welfare: The UEP-HSUS Agreement and H.R. 3798, May 14, 2012
Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges, May 21, 2012
Central Asia: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests, May 18, 2012
U.S.-Vietnam Relations in 2011: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy, May 18, 2012
The U.S. Export Control System and the President’s Reform Initiative, May 18, 2012
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.
Investing in interventions behind the walls is not just a matter of improving conditions for incarcerated individuals—it is a public safety and economic imperative. By reducing recidivism through education and family contact, we can improve reentry outcomes and save billions in taxpayer dollars.
The U.S. government should establish a public-private National Exposome Project (NEP) to generate benchmark human exposure levels for the ~80,000 chemicals to which Americans are regularly exposed.