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Half of the state's population -- 1 million residents -- could be harmed by toxic gas exposure were terrorists to attack a Utah chemical storage facility, the Congressional Research Service reports.
The research service doesn't mention the Utah plant by name in its assessment of the up to 112 facilities nationwide storing dangerous chemicals that if attacked could harm 1 million or more people. The analysis was prepared for Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass.
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WASHINGTON - A new Web site aims to make widely available to the public certain government reports about topics from terrorism to Social Security that congressional researchers prepare and distribute now only to lawmakers.
The site - www.opencrs.com - links more than a half-dozen existing collections of nearly 8,000 reports from the Congressional Research Service and centrally indexes them so visitors can find reports containing specific terms or phrases.
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... members of the United States Armed Services and, in certain circumstances, personnel of privat...The Congressional Research Service reports that the United States ha...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new Web site aims to make widely available to the public certain government reports about topics from terrorism to Social Security that congressional researchers prepare and distribute now only to lawmakers.
The site -- www.opencrs.com -- links more than a half-dozen existing collections of nearly 8,000 reports from the Congressional Research Service and centrally indexes them so visitors can find reports containing specific terms or phrases.
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... limited to the police and intelligence services but plagues the civilian bureaucracy as well. Gung...There are reports that some combatants have begun to rejoin the insu...The Congressional Research Service reports that military and civilia...
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Pakistan has cooperated secretly with the U.S. on several war- fighting missions in an odd-couple alliance that also has factions in Islamabad backing the fiercest American enemy.
The uneasy relationship is being put to the test again after Pakistan accused NATO on Saturday of unleashing a helicopter strike on a Pakistani army border outpost and said 25 soldiers were killed. Afghan officials on Sunday said Afghan troops under fire near the Pakistan border called in the NATO airstrike.
...trainers into the country. The Congressional Research Service reports that Congress has appropr...
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Charles Lindblom's seminal article, "The Science of 'Muddling Through,'" recognized serious policy-development limitations at the time of its writing. He argued that while root analysis theoretically offered a more rational-comprehensive approach policy analysts lacked the intellectual and computing capacity to accomplish it; whereas, branch analysis, or limited successive comparison, was more reachable. Much has changed since then. This article revisits Lindblom's arguments and asserts root and branch analyses are separate and distinct from rational-comprehensive and incremental policy approaches. More rigorous and robust analyses are possible and desirable within the context of an emergent complex adaptive political system framework. Such an approach provides more "analytical" justifi...
... retrieval capabilities allow more robust research to bridge two major types of analysis in emerging ... welfare in terms of public goods and services for everyone; and the private accumulation of prop... gray literature (e.g., non peer-reviewed reports from the government and advocacy groups) to peer-r...Demands may take the form of congressional action to minimize the effects of global warming o...
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By Robert McCabe
The Virginian-Pilot
..., according to a July 11 Congressional Research Service study by Ronald O'Rourke. The shi... or so - more so within the past month - reports have circulated in Washington about potential defe...
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... sometimes neglected) limitations on the service of "acting" appointee (GAO 2003; Stayn 2001). Yet,...(3) We consider research linking appointee continuity and agency performanc... available through Thomas.gov, Congressional Research Service reports, contemporary news covera...
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... members of the United States Armed Services and, in certain circumstances, personnel of privat...The Congressional Research Service reports that the United States ha...