Newly updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made readily available to the public include the following.
Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 12, 2012
The G-20 and International Economic Cooperation: Background and Implications for Congress, April 12, 2012
U.S. Trade Deficit and the Impact of Changing Oil Prices, April 13, 2012
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Statistics and Programs, April 12, 2012
U.S. Energy: Overview and Key Statistics, April 11, 2012
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.
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.