Newly updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Armed Conflict in Syria: U.S. and International Response, June 14, 2013
Syria’s Chemical Weapons: Issues for Congress, June 14, 2013
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues, June 14, 2013
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Issues for Congress, June 17, 2013
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.