Some noteworthy, newly updated products of the Congressional Research Service that are not readily available in the public domain include the following (all pdf).
“Congressional Oversight Manual,” updated January 3, 2007.
“Paperwork Reduction Act Reauthorization and Government Information Management Issues,” updated January 4, 2007.
“Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty,” updated January 3, 2007.
“Proliferation Control Regimes: Background and Status,” updated December 26, 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.