Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service this week include the following.
Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, updated February 13, 2018
Congressional Gold Medals: Background, Legislative Process, and Issues for Congress, February 9, 2018
D.C. Circuit Upholds as Constitutional the Structure of the CFPB — Part I, CRS Legal Sidebar, February 12, 2018
Israel: Background and U.S. Relations In Brief, updated February 12, 2018
Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2018 Budget and Appropriations, updated February 12, 2018
Ecuador: In Brief, updated February 13, 2018
Diversity Immigrants’ Regions and Countries of Origin: Fact Sheet, February 13, 2018
HPSCI Memorandum Sparks Debate over FISA Application Requirements, CRS Legal Sidebar, February 14, 2018
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.