Noteworthy reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf).
“Congress and the Internet: Highlights,” August 29, 2007.
“Pakistan-U.S. Relations,” updated August 24, 2007.
“United Nations Peacekeeping: Issues for Congress,” updated August 21, 2007.
“Intelligence Issues for Congress,” updated August 7, 2007.
“Extradition To and From the United States: Overview of the Law and Recent Treaties,” updated August 3, 2007.
“Congressional Commissions, Committees, Boards, and Groups: Appointment Authority and Membership,” updated April 4, 2007.
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.
FAS is launching the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI) to build a new, transpartisan vision of government that works – that has the capacity to achieve ambitious goals while adeptly responding to people’s basic needs.