Cybersecurity Information Sharing, and More from CRS
New products from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Legislation to Facilitate Cybersecurity Information Sharing: Economic Analysis, December 11, 2014
FY2015 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Issues, December 11, 2014
Analysis of H.R. 5781, California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014, December 11, 2014
Addressing the Long-Run Budget Deficit: A Comparison of Approaches, December 9, 2014
Cost-Benefit and Other Analysis Requirements in the Rulemaking Process, December 9, 2014
Overview of Federal Real Property Disposal Requirements and Procedures, December 10, 2014
Anti-Terrorist/Anti-Money Laundering Information-Sharing by Financial Institutions under FINCEN’s Regulations, CRS Legal Sidebar, December 10, 2014
Argentina: Background and U.S. Relations, December 9, 2014
Latin America and Climate Change, CRS Insights, December 11, 2014
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.