Asylum for Unaccompanied Children, and More from CRS
New products from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Asylum Policies for Unaccompanied Children Compared with Expedited Removal Policies for Unauthorized Adults: In Brief, July 30, 2014
EPA’s Proposed CO2 Rule for Existing Power Plants: How Would It Affect Nuclear Energy?, CRS Insights, August 4, 2014
Shale Gas Gathering Pipelines: Safety Issues, CRS Insights, August 1, 2014
Nonmarital Births: An Overview, July 30, 2014
Export-Import Bank Reauthorization: Frequently Asked Questions, August 1, 2014
Indonesia’s 2014 Presidential Election, CRS Insights, August 4, 2014
U.S.-Russia Economic Relations (updated), CRS Insights, August 1, 2014
U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Frequently Asked Questions and Background (updated), July 31, 2014
“Womenomics” in Japan: In Brief, August 1, 2014
Using the NIST as an example, the Radiation Physics Building (still without the funding to complete its renovation) is crucial to national security and the medical community. If it were to go down (or away), every medical device in the United States that uses radiation would be decertified within 6 months, creating a significant single point of failure that cannot be quickly mitigated.
The federal government can support more proactive, efficient, and cost-effective resiliency planning by certifying predictive models to validate and publicly indicate their quality.
We need a new agency that specializes in uncovering funding opportunities that were overlooked elsewhere. Judging from the history of scientific breakthroughs, the benefits could be quite substantial.
The cost of inaction is not merely economic; it is measured in preventable illness, deaths and diminished livelihoods.