Ebola-Stricken Americans Returning from Abroad, and More from CRS
New products from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Safe at Home? Letting Ebola-Stricken Americans Return, CRS Insights, August 5, 2014:
2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: Evolution of Strategic Review, CRS Insights, August 6, 2014
Reducing the Budget Deficit: Overview of Policy Issues, August 7, 2014
Juvenile Victims of Domestic Sex Trafficking: Juvenile Justice Issues, August 5, 2014
U.S.-EU Cooperation on Ukraine and Russia, CRS Insights, August 7, 2014
January saw us watching whether the government would fund science. February has been about how that funding will be distributed, regulated, and contested.
This rule gives agencies significantly more authority over certain career policy roles. Whether that authority improves accountability or creates new risks depends almost entirely on how agencies interrupt and apply it.
Our environmental system was built for 1970s-era pollution control, but today it needs stable, integrated, multi-level governance that can make tradeoffs, share and use evidence, and deliver infrastructure while demonstrating that improved trust and participation are essential to future progress.
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.