Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has chosen not to make available to the public include the following.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Issues for Congress, September 5, 2012
Weather-Related Power Outages and Electric System Resiliency, August 28, 2012
SBA Veterans Assistance Programs: An Analysis of Contemporary Issues, September 4, 2012
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, September 4, 2012
Immigration Detainers: Legal Issues, August 31, 2012
Tajikistan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests, updated August 31, 2012
Defense: FY2013 Authorization and Appropriations, updated September 5, 2012
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.