Other new and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include these (all pdf).
“Islamic Finance: Overview and Policy Concerns,” July 29, 2008.
“Presidential Advisers’ Testimony Before Congressional Committees: An Overview,” updated July 16, 2008.
“China’s Foreign Policy: What Does It Mean for U.S. Global Interests?,” July 18, 2008.
“Navy DDG-1000 Destroyer Program: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress,” updated July 15, 2008.
“A Parliamentary-Style Question Period: Proposals and Issues for Congress,” July 29, 2008.
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.