The Presidential Nominating Process, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that have been withheld from online public distribution include the following.
The Presidential Nominating Process and the National Party Conventions, 2016: Frequently Asked Questions, updated December 30, 2015
Need-Tested Benefits: Estimated Eligibility and Benefit Receipt by Families and Individuals, December 30, 2015
Federal Reserve: Oversight and Disclosure Issues, updated January 4, 2016
Analysis of the Tax Exclusion for Canceled Mortgage Debt Income, updated December 30, 2015
Iraq: Politics and Governance, updated December 31, 2015
Israel: Background and U.S. Relations In Brief, updated December 30, 2015
Bahrain: Reform, Security, and U.S. Policy, updated December 30, 2015
The WTO Nairobi Ministerial, CRS Insight, January 4, 2016
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.