Proliferation of Precision Strike, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has instructed CRS not to release to the public include the following.
Proliferation of Precision Strike: Issues for Congress, May 14, 2012
By one official reckoning, there were 35 terrorist incidents in the United States between 2004 and 2011. See The Domestic Terrorist Threat: Background and Issues for Congress, May 15, 2012
It costs $179,750 per hour to operate Air Force One, the President’s official aircraft, according to the latest cost data from the Air Force. See Presidential Travel: Policy and Costs, May 17, 2012
How FDA Approves Drugs and Regulates Their Safety and Effectiveness, May 18, 2012
Submission of the President’s Budget in Transition Years, May 17, 2012
Canadian oil sands are 14-20% more greenhouse-gas-intensive than the crude oil they would replace in U.S. refineries. The effect of the Keystone XL pipeline would be to increase the U.S. greenhouse gas footprint by 3-21 million metric tons, equal to the greenhouse emissions from 588,000 to 4 million passenger vehicles. See Canadian Oil Sands: Life-Cycle Assessments of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, May 15, 2012
Discretionary Spending in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), May 18, 2012
Economic Recovery: Sustaining U.S. Economic Growth in a Post-Crisis Economy, May 17, 2012
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP): Implementation and Status, May 18, 2012
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: Issues for Congress and U.S. Contributions from FY2001 to FY2013, May 15, 2012
Taiwan: Major U.S. Arms Sales Since 1990, May 17, 2012
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.