Some new or newly updated products of the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf).
“National Security Letters in Foreign Intelligence Investigations: Legal Background and Recent Amendments,” updated March 20, 2007.
“Navy Force Structure: Alternative Force Structure Studies of 2005 — Background for Congress,” April 9, 2007.
“Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court,” updated April 6, 2007.
“Opening of the International Tracing Service’s Holocaust-Era Archives in Bad Arolsen, Germany,” April 5, 2007.
Declining U.S. manufacturing has sharply curtailed a key path to the middle class for those with high school educations or less, thereby exacerbating income inequality nationwide. The United States can address many of these problems through concerted efforts in advanced manufacturing.
The research community lacks strategies to incentivize collaboration on high-quality data acquisition and sharing. The government should fund collaborative roadmapping, certification, collection, and sharing of large, high-quality datasets in life science.
The potential of new nuclear power plants to meet energy demand, increase energy security, and revitalize local economies depends on new regulatory and operational approaches at the NRC.
In anticipation of future known and unknown health security threats, including new pandemics, biothreats, and climate-related health emergencies, our answers need to be much faster, cheaper, and less disruptive to other operations.