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.
Over the past few months, the Trump administration has been laying the foundation to expand the use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) for energy infrastructure and supply chains.
Get it right, and pooled hiring becomes a model for how the federal government decides what to do together and what to do apart. That’s a bigger prize than faster hiring. It’s a more functional government.
As of March 2026, there were at least nine documented U.S. wrongful arrests tied to face recognition misidentification. Errors like these are as much human as machine.
No one will be surprised if we end up with a continuing resolution to push our shutdown deadline out past the midterms, so the real question is what else will they get done this summer?