Some notable recent reports of the Congressional Research Service that have not been readily available to the public include the following:
“China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues” (pdf), updated April 6, 2006.
“Protection of Classified Information by Congress: Practices and Proposals” (pdf), updated April 5, 2006.
“Navy Ship Propulsion Technologies: Options for Reducing Oil Use — Background for Congress” (pdf), April 12, 2006.
“FY2006 Supplemental Appropriations: Iraq and Other International Activities; Additional Katrina Hurricane Relief” (pdf), updated April 14, 2006.
“Immigration Enforcement Within the United States” (pdf), April 6, 2006.
“Patent Reform: Issues in the Biomedical and Software Industries” (pdf), April 7, 2006.
“Oil Shale: History, Incentives, and Policy” (pdf), April 13, 2006.
Over the past few months, the Trump administration has been laying the foundation to expand the use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) for energy infrastructure and supply chains.
Get it right, and pooled hiring becomes a model for how the federal government decides what to do together and what to do apart. That’s a bigger prize than faster hiring. It’s a more functional government.
As of March 2026, there were at least nine documented U.S. wrongful arrests tied to face recognition misidentification. Errors like these are as much human as machine.
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?