Some other noteworthy new products of the Congressional Research Service that are not widely available to the public include the following (all pdf).
“Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing: U.S. Policy Development,” November 29, 2006.
“Homeland Security: Evolving Roles and Missions for United States Northern Command,” updated November 16, 2006.
“U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues,” updated October 17, 2006.
“National Emergency Powers,” updated November 13, 2006.
“Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Oversight Issues and Options for Congress,” November 30, 2006.
“The United States and Europe: Current Issues,” updated November 21, 2006.
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.