The latest products from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues, March 11, 2013
China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the United States, March 4, 2013
Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources, March 8, 2013
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Reauthorization Proposals in the 113th Congress: Comparison of Major Features of Current Law and H.R. 803, March 12, 2013
Higher Education Tax Benefits: Brief Overview and Budgetary Effects, March 12, 2013
The Role of Local Food Systems in U.S. Farm Policy, March 12, 2013
Budget Issues Shaping a Farm Bill in 2013, March 11, 2013
Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections, March 12, 2013
Major U.S. Arms Sales and Grants to Pakistan Since 2001, March 7, 2013
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.