Noteworthy new publications from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Nuclear Waste Storage Sites in the United States, CRS In Focus, May 3, 2019
Proposed Civilian Personnel System Supporting “Space Force”, CRS In Focus, May 7, 2019
Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC): Background and Issues for Congress, April 25, 2019
Congressional Access to the President’s Federal Tax Returns, CRS Legal Sidebar, updated May 7, 2019
“Sanctuary” Jurisdictions: Federal, State, and Local Policies and Related Litigation, updated May 3, 2019
Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and the Internet: Free Speech Considerations, May 6, 2019
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.
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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.