Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and More from CRS
Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf).
“Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Issues and Arguments,” February 28, 2008.
“Fusion Centers: Issues and Options for Congress,” updated January 18, 2008.
“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: A Brief Overview of Selected Issues,” updated February 8, 2008.
“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Comparison of House-Passed H.R. 3773, S. 2248 as Reported By the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and S. 2248 as Reported Out of the Senate Judiciary Committee,” updated February 8, 2008.
“Operation Iraqi Freedom: Strategies, Approaches, Results, and Issues for Congress,” February 22, 2008.
“Defense Contracting in Iraq: Issues and Options for Congress,” updated January 29, 2008.
“FY2009 Defense Budget: Issues for Congress,” February 11, 2008.
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.