The Executive Budget Process, and More from CRS
New reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made readily available to the public include these.
The Executive Budget Process: An Overview, July 27, 2012
“Amazon” Laws and Taxation of Internet Sales: Constitutional Analysis, July 26, 2012
The Obama Administration’s Proposal to Establish a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, July 25, 2012
Moving to a Territorial Income Tax: Options and Challenges, July 25, 2012
An Overview and Comparison of Senate Proposals to Extend the “Bush Tax Cuts”: S. 3412 and S. 3413, July 25, 2012
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2013 Budget and Appropriations, July 23, 2012
Military Service Records and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources, updated July 26, 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.