The latest updates from the Congressional Research Service obtained by the Federation of American Scientists include these reports.
Secret Sessions of the House and Senate: Authority, Confidentiality, and Frequency, March 15, 2013
Europe’s Energy Security: Options and Challenges to Natural Gas Supply Diversification, March 15, 2013
The Amending Process in the Senate, March 15, 2013
Commonly Used Motions and Requests in the House of Representatives, March 15, 2013
Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier (CVN) Homeporting at Mayport: Background and Issues for Congress, March 15, 2013
Navy Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Operations: Background and Issues for Congress, March 15, 2013
Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress, March 15, 2013
Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress, March 15, 2013
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.