Some other recently updated Congressional Research Service reports that have not been made freely available to the public include these (all pdf).
“China’s Currency: Economic Issues and Options for U.S. Trade Policy,” updated June 28, 2007.
“Military Airlift: C-17 Aircraft Program,” updated June 5, 2007.
“Indonesia: Domestic Politics, Strategic Dynamics, and American Interests,” updated June 20, 2007.
“The Global Peace Operations Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress,” updated June 11, 2007.
“Conventional Warheads For Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues for Congress,” updated June 19, 2007.
“War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance,” updated June 12, 2007.
January saw us watching whether the government would fund science. February has been about how that funding will be distributed, regulated, and contested.
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.