Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made available to the public include the following.
Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice, and Recent Developments, August 21, 2012
Congress’s Contempt Power and the Enforcement of Congressional Subpoenas: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure, updated August 17, 2012
Iraq: Politics, Governance, and Human Rights, updated August 21, 2012
An Overview of the “Patent Trolls” Debate, August 20, 2012
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?
Rebuilding public participation starts with something simple — treating the public not as a problem to manage, but as a source of ingenuity government cannot function without.
If the government wants a system of learning and adaptation that improves results in real time, it has to treat translation, utilization, and adaptation as core functions of governance rather than as afterthoughts.
Coordination among federal science agencies is essential to ensure government-wide alignment on R&D investment priorities. However, the federal R&D enterprise suffers from egregious siloization.