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
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.