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.
DOE has spent considerable time in the last few years focused on how to strengthen the Department’s workforce and deliver on its mission. The FY25 budget request looks to continue those investments.
The total number of U.S. nuclear warheads are now estimated to include 1,770 deployed warheads, 1,938 reserved for operational forces. An additional 1,336 retired warheads are awaiting dismantlement, for a total inventory of 5,044 warheads.
CHIPS is poised to ramp up demand for STEM graduates, but the nation’s education system is unprepared to produce them.
The Administration has continued to push for further clean energy investments, but faces a difficult fiscal environment in Congress – which has meant shortfalls for many priority areas like funding for CHIPS and Science.