Science & Tech Issues in Congress, & More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Science and Technology Issues in the 115th Congress, updated May 23, 2017
U.S.-South Korea Relations, updated May 23, 2017
Australia, CRS In Focus, May 12, 2017
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), updated May 24, 2017
Paid Family Leave in the United States, May 24, 2017
Selected Federal Water Activities: Agencies, Authorities, and Congressional Committees, updated May 24, 2017
The United States Withdraws from the TPP, CRS Insight, updated May 23, 2017
Saudi Arabia: Background and U.S. Relations, updated May 24, 2017
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.