An Overview of the Affordable Care Act, and More from CRS
Updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made readily available to the public include the following.
ACA: A Brief Overview of the Law, Implementation, and Legal Challenges, July 3, 2012
Individual Mandate and Related Information Requirements under ACA, July 2, 2012
Foreign Holdings of Federal Debt, July 3, 2012
Mexico’s Free Trade Agreements, July 3, 2012
Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress, July 2, 2012
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.