Some more reports from the Congressional Research Service on diverse topics include the following (all pdf).
“Freedom of Information Act Amendments: 109th Congress,” updated September 22, 2006.
“The Endangered Species Act and ‘Sound Science’,” updated October 5, 2006.
“Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2007,” updated October 10, 2006.
“Globalizing Cooperative Threat Reduction: A Survey of Options,” updated October 5, 2006.
“Iran’s Influence in Iraq,” updated September 29, 2006.
“Project BioShield,” updated September 27, 2006.
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.