New reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has declined to make publicly available include the following.
Internet Firearm and Ammunition Sales, August 28, 2012
Political Ads: Issue Advocacy or Campaign Activity Under the Tax Code?, August 29, 2012
U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones: Background and Issues for Congress, August 28, 2012
Critical Infrastructure Resilience: The Evolution of Policy and Programs and Issues for Congress, August 23, 2012
Stealing Trade Secrets and Economic Espionage: An Overview of U.S.C. 1831 and 1832, August 28, 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.
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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.