New reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public release include the following.
Vacancy on the Supreme Court: CRS Products, CRS Legal Sidebar, March 21, 2016
Justice Antonin Scalia: His Jurisprudence and His Impact on the Court, March 18, 2016
Merrick Garland’s Nomination to the Supreme Court: Initial Observations, CRS Legal Sidebar, March 17, 2016
Argentina: Background and U.S. Relations, March 22, 2016
U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians, March 18, 2016
Turkey: Background and U.S. Relations in Brief, March 18, 2016
Cars, Trucks, and Climate: EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases from Mobile Sources, March 16, 2016
Transportation Spending Under an Earmark Ban, March 17, 2016
Aliens’ Right to Counsel in Removal Proceedings: In Brief, March 17, 2016
Federally Supported Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment Programs, March 17, 2016
Navy Lasers, Railgun, and Hypervelocity Projectile: Background and Issues for Congress, March 18, 2016
Can Agencies Take Actions That They Are Not Expressly Authorized by Statute to Take?, CRS Legal Sidebar, March 22, 2016
Access to Government Information In the United States: A Primer, March 18, 2016
“One thing became increasingly clear: AI doesn’t simply introduce a new category of risk. It changes the speed, scale, complexity, and interaction of risks that already exist.”
In an ideal world, we would not have state or federal climate intervention research bans. We would have researchers and institutions that would not shy away from revealing the good, the bad, and the ugly of these technologies and doing so responsibly.
“What excites me is that it’s very tempting to be very discouraged, and say, ‘Oh, we’ve got these archaic institutions that are calcified and you could never change them.’ But I think we’re in the middle of a technological revolution that will upend lots of things, and does provide a window.”
Ask people what worries them most right now, and they’ll say the cost of living and their livelihoods, not climate change. But those concerns are not separate.