Iran Sanctions, Homeless Veterans, and More from CRS
Recent reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf).
Enforcement of Congressional Rules of Conduct: An Historical Overview, June 14, 2011
Mandatory Spending Since 1962, June 15, 2011
Veterans and Homelessness, June 15, 2011
Iran Sanctions, June 22, 2011
Congressional Oversight Manual, June 10, 2011
January saw us watching whether the government would fund science. February has been about how that funding will be distributed, regulated, and contested.
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.