Refugee Admissions and Resettlement, and More from CRS
Newly updated publications from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Refugee Admissions and Resettlement Policy, February 18, 2015
U.S. Tsunami Program: A Brief Overview, February 20, 2015
Legislation to Facilitate Cybersecurity Information Sharing: Economic Analysis, February 23, 2015
Domestic Human Trafficking Legislation in the 114th Congress, February 23, 2015
Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress, February 24, 2015
Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, February 23, 2015
Using the NIST as an example, the Radiation Physics Building (still without the funding to complete its renovation) is crucial to national security and the medical community. If it were to go down (or away), every medical device in the United States that uses radiation would be decertified within 6 months, creating a significant single point of failure that cannot be quickly mitigated.
The federal government can support more proactive, efficient, and cost-effective resiliency planning by certifying predictive models to validate and publicly indicate their quality.
We need a new agency that specializes in uncovering funding opportunities that were overlooked elsewhere. Judging from the history of scientific breakthroughs, the benefits could be quite substantial.
The cost of inaction is not merely economic; it is measured in preventable illness, deaths and diminished livelihoods.