Some recent reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available in the public domain include the following (all pdf).
“Long-Range Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe,” June 22, 2007.
“Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force,” updated June 21, 2007.
“Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S. Interests,” updated May 31, 2007.
“The Use of Federal Troops for Disaster Assistance: Legal Issues,” updated April 24, 2007.
“The Department of Defense Rules for Military Commissions: Analysis of Procedural Rules and Comparison with Proposed Legislation and the Uniform Code of Military Justice,” updated September 25, 2006.
The bootcamp brought more than two dozen next-generation open-source practitioners from across the United States to Washington DC, where they participated in interactive modules, group discussions, and hands-on sleuthing.
Fourteen teams from ten U.S. states have been selected as the Stage 2 awardees in the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), a national competition that helps communities turn emerging research into ready-to-implement solutions.
The Fix Our Forests Act provides an opportunity to speed up the planning and implementation of wildfire risk reduction projects on federal lands while expanding collaborative tools to bring more partners into this vital work.
Public health insurance programs, especially Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), are more likely to cover populations at increased risk from extreme heat, including low-income individuals, people with chronic illnesses, older adults, disabled adults, and children.