Some new reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf).
“The Freedom of Information Act and Nondisclosure Provisions in Other Federal Laws,” September 13, 2010.
“The Role of Trade Secrets in Innovation Policy,” August 31, 2010.
“Regulating Coal Combustion Waste Disposal: Issues for Congress,” September 21, 2010.
“The SPEECH Act: The Federal Response to ‘Libel Tourism’,” September 16.
“The Bush Tax Cuts and the Economy,” September 3, 2010.
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.