Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf).
“U.S.-Russian Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Issues for Congress,” updated June 26, 2008.
“Department of Justice (DOJ) Appropriations for FY2008 and FY2009,” June 10, 2008.
“A Brief History of Veterans’ Education Benefits and Their Value,” June 25, 2008.
“Veterans Affairs: Historical Budget Authority, Fiscal Years 1940 through 2007,” June 13, 2008.
“Cluster Munitions: Background and Issues for Congress,” June 27, 2008.
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.
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FAS is launching the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI) to build a new, transpartisan vision of government that works – that has the capacity to achieve ambitious goals while adeptly responding to people’s basic needs.