New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Administration’s Syria Policy Envisions Continued U.S. Presence, CRS Insight, January 26, 2018
TPP Countries Conclude Agreement Without U.S. Participation, CRS Insight, January 29, 2018
Mexico: Background and U.S. Relations, updated January 29, 2018
2017 Disaster Supplemental Appropriations: Overview, January 25, 2018
Shining a Light on the Solar Trade: Investigation Leads to Tariffs on Solar Energy-Related Imports (Part I), CRS Legal Sidebar, January 26, 2018
Addressing Sexual Harassment by Modifying the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995: A Look at Key Provisions in H.R. 4822, CRS Legal Sidebar, January 29, 2018
A Survey of House and Senate Committee Rules on Subpoenas, updated January 29, 2018
January saw us watching whether the government would fund science. February has been about how that funding will be distributed, regulated, and contested.
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.