Internships in the Federal Government, and More from CRS
New products from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following.
Intelligence Authorization Legislation for FY2014 and FY2015: Provisions, Status, Intelligence Community Framework, November 20, 2014
U.S. Family-Based Immigration Policy, November 19, 2014
Yemen: Background and U.S. Relations, November 19, 2014
Natural Gas for Cars and Trucks: Options and Challenges, November 19, 2014
State Minimum Wages: An Overview, November 18, 2014
Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange: Legislative History, Litigation, and Current Issues, November 18, 2014
Internships, Fellowships, and Other Work Experience Opportunities in the Federal Government, November 18, 2014
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.