Analysts at the Congressional Research Service continue to churn out reports for Congress faster than they can reasonably be digested. Not all of them are of broad interest, nor do they consistently offer original content or significant analytical insight.
But as long as Congress refuses to make them available online to the general public, there seems to be value in our helping to do so.
Recent CRS products that are not already available in other online public collections such as OpenCRS and the State Department’s Foreign Press Center include the following.
“Is China a Threat to the U.S. Economy?,” updated January 23, 2007.
“China’s Trade with the United States and the World,” updated January 4, 2007.
“Yemen: Current Conditions and U.S. Relations,” updated January 4, 2007.
“State and Urban Area Homeland Security Plans and Exercises: Issues for the 110th Congress,” updated January 3, 2007.
“The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,” updated January 19, 2007.
“Environmental Activities of the U.S. Coast Guard,” updated January 16, 2007.
“The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA): A Summary,” updated January 3, 2007.
“Countries of the World and International Organizations: Sources of Information,” updated January 8, 2007.
In anticipation of future known and unknown health security threats, including new pandemics, biothreats, and climate-related health emergencies, our answers need to be much faster, cheaper, and less disruptive to other operations.
To unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence within the Department of Health and Human Services, an AI Corps should be established, embedding specialized AI experts within each of the department’s 10 agencies.
Investing in interventions behind the walls is not just a matter of improving conditions for incarcerated individuals—it is a public safety and economic imperative. By reducing recidivism through education and family contact, we can improve reentry outcomes and save billions in taxpayer dollars.
The U.S. government should establish a public-private National Exposome Project (NEP) to generate benchmark human exposure levels for the ~80,000 chemicals to which Americans are regularly exposed.