New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made publicly available include the following.
Hydraulic Fracturing: Selected Legal Issues, July 16, 2013
An Overview of Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas: Resources and Federal Actions, July 15, 2013
Legislative Branch: FY2014 Appropriations, July 16, 2013
The President’s Budget Request: Overview and Timing of the Mid-Session Review, July 16, 2013
Delay in Implementation of Potential Employer Penalties Under ACA, July 16, 2013
Clean Air Issues in the 113th Congress: An Overview, July 15, 2013
Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, July 15, 2013
Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements, July 15, 2013
Rep. Barbara Lee requested and released a CRS memorandum on The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, including a list of U.S. military actions that were initiated under AUMF authority.
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.