Recent products of the Congressional Research Service that CRS has not been authorized to release to the public include the following.
Gun Control Legislation, August 3, 2012
El Salvador: Political, Economic, and Social Conditions and U.S. Relations, August 13, 2012
Honduran-U.S. Relations, July 25, 2012
Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances, July 24, 2012
Cyprus: Reunification Proving Elusive, August 13, 2012
Kazakhstan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests, August 10, 2012
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.