In a series of newly updated reports presumably intended for new Members of Congress who are unfamiliar with basic features of the federal budget, the Congressional Research Service presented the very rudiments of the budget process. See:
Basic Federal Budgeting Terminology, November 26, 2012
Overview of the Authorization-Appropriations Process, November 26, 2012
Baselines and Scorekeeping in the Federal Budget Process, November 26, 2012
Budget Reconciliation Legislation: Development and Consideration, November 26, 2012
Entitlements and Appropriated Entitlements in the Federal Budget Process, November 26, 2012
Legislative Procedures for Adjusting the Public Debt Limit: A Brief Overview, November 26, 2012
Recognizing the power of the national transportation infrastructure expert community and its distributed expertise, ARPA-I took a different route that would instead bring the full collective brainpower to bear around appropriately ambitious ideas.
NIH needs to seriously invest in both the infrastructure and funding to undertake rigorous nutrition clinical trials, so that we can rapidly improve food and make progress on obesity.
Confronting this crisis requires decision-makers to understand the lived realities of wildfire risk and resilience, and to work together across party lines. Safewoods helps make both possible.
Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed revoking its 2009 “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases pose a substantial threat to the public. The Federation of American Scientists stands in strong opposition.