Noteworthy new reports of the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf).
“U.S. Strategic and Defense Relationships in the Asia-Pacific Region,” January 22, 2007.
“Kinetic Energy Kill for Ballistic Missile Defense: A Status Overview,” updated January 5, 2007.
“Afghan Refugees: Current Status and Future Prospects,” January 26, 2007.
“Chemical Facility Security: Regulation and Issues for Congress,” January 31, 2007.
“Islamist Extremism in Bangladesh,” January 31, 2007.
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.