New and updated publications from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Net Neutrality: Back to the Future, CRS Legal Sidebar, May 30, 2017
East Asia’s Foreign Exchange Rate Policies, updated May 26, 2017
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Trends and Projections: Role of the Clean Power Plan and Other Factors, updated May 31, 2017
Respirable Crystalline Silica in the Workplace: New Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Standards, updated May 31, 2017
Cuba: U.S. Policy in the 115th Congress, May 26, 2017
Jordan: Background and U.S. Relations, updated June 1, 2017
Advanced Pilot Training (T-X) Program: Background and Issues for Congress, May 31, 2017
Congress must enact a Digital Public Infrastructure Act, a recognition that the government’s most fundamental responsibility in the digital era is to provide a solid, trustworthy foundation upon which people, businesses, and communities can build.
To increase the real and perceived benefit of research funding, funding agencies should develop challenge goals for their extramural research programs focused on the impact portion of their mission.
Without trusted mechanisms to ensure privacy while enabling secure data access, essential R&D stalls, educational innovation stalls, and U.S. global competitiveness suffers.
Satellite imagery has long served as a tool for observing on-the-ground activity worldwide, and offers especially valuable insights into the operation, development, and physical features related to nuclear technology.