Some new products of the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following (all pdf).
“Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court,” updated September 26, 2006.
“Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006: S. 3931 and Title II of S. 3929, the Terrorist Tracking, Identification, and Prosecution Act of 2006,” September 25, 2006.
“Intelligence Spending: Public Disclosure Issues,” updated September 25, 2006.
“Selected Procedural Safeguards in Federal, Military, and International Courts,” updated September 18, 2006.
“East Asian Regional Architecture: New Economic and Security Arrangements and U.S. Policy,” September 18, 2006.
“Critical Infrastructure: The National Asset Database,” September 14, 2006.
“Information Operations and Cyberwar: Capabilities and Related Policy Issues,” updated September 14, 2006.
“China/Taiwan: Evolution of the ‘One China’ Policy — Key Statements from Washington, Beijing, and Taipei,” updated September 7, 2006.
“Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion of Aliens,” updated September 5, 2006.
“Pages of the United States Congress: Selection, Duties, and Program Administration,” updated August 14, 2006.
The bootcamp brought more than two dozen next-generation open-source practitioners from across the United States to Washington DC, where they participated in interactive modules, group discussions, and hands-on sleuthing.
Fourteen teams from ten U.S. states have been selected as the Stage 2 awardees in the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), a national competition that helps communities turn emerging research into ready-to-implement solutions.
The Fix Our Forests Act provides an opportunity to speed up the planning and implementation of wildfire risk reduction projects on federal lands while expanding collaborative tools to bring more partners into this vital work.
Public health insurance programs, especially Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), are more likely to cover populations at increased risk from extreme heat, including low-income individuals, people with chronic illnesses, older adults, disabled adults, and children.