New reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made publicly available include the following.
The Purple Heart: Background and Issues for Congress, September 7, 2012
The National Labor Relations Act: Background and Selected Topics, September 7, 2012
Federal Public Transportation Program: An Overview, September 6, 2012
Unemployment Compensation (UC): Eligibility for Students Under State and Federal Laws, September 7, 2012
The Senior Executive Service: Background and Options for Reform, updated September 6, 2012
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.