Newly updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following.
Argentina’s Defaulted Sovereign Debt: Dealing with the “Holdouts”, February 6, 2013
Honduras-U.S. Relations, February 5, 2013
Veterans and Homelessness, February 4, 2013
VA Housing: Guaranteed Loans, Direct Loans, and Specially Adapted Housing Grants, February 4, 2013
Agricultural Conservation: A Guide to Programs, February 5, 2013
The National Flood Insurance Program: Status and Remaining Issues for Congress, February 6, 2013
Appropriations Subcommittee Structure: History of Changes from 1920 to 2013, February 5, 2013
U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress, February 6, 2013
Satellite imagery of RAF Lakenheath reveals new construction of a security perimeter around ten protective aircraft shelters in the designated nuclear area, the latest measure in a series of upgrades as the base prepares for the ability to store U.S. nuclear weapons.
It will take consistent leadership and action to navigate the complex dangers in the region and to avoid what many analysts considered to be an increasingly possible outcome, a nuclear conflict in East Asia.
Getting into a shutdown is the easy part, getting out is much harder. Both sides will be looking to pin responsibility on each other, and the court of public opinion will have a major role to play as to who has the most leverage for getting us out.
How the United States responds to China’s nuclear buildup will shape the global nuclear balance for the rest of the century.