Deepwater Horizon: The Fate of the Oil, and More from CRS
Noteworthy new products of the Congressional Research Service include the following reports (all pdf).
“The EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement and Its Implications for the United States,” December 17, 2010.
“Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Fate of the Oil,” December 16, 2010.
“Keeping America’s Pipelines Safe and Secure: Key Issues for Congress,” December 13, 2010.
“American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat,” updated December 7, 2010.
No one will be surprised if we end up with a continuing resolution to push our shutdown deadline out past the midterms, so the real question is what else will they get done this summer?
Rebuilding public participation starts with something simple — treating the public not as a problem to manage, but as a source of ingenuity government cannot function without.
If the government wants a system of learning and adaptation that improves results in real time, it has to treat translation, utilization, and adaptation as core functions of governance rather than as afterthoughts.
Coordination among federal science agencies is essential to ensure government-wide alignment on R&D investment priorities. However, the federal R&D enterprise suffers from egregious siloization.