The Strategic National Stockpile: Overview and Issues for Congress
The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) consists of drugs, vaccines, medical products, and ancillary supplies that can be deployed at the request of state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) health ...
The Biden Administration’s Final Rule on Arriving Aliens Seeking Asylum (Part Two)
In May 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a final rule that would, for at least a two-year period, make some aliens ineligible for asylum if they ar...
A Bar Too High: Concerns with CEQ’s Proposed Regulatory Hurdle for Federal Contracting
Private nondelegation doctrine, major questions doctrine, greenhouse gas emissions, CEQ, Council on Environmental Quality, climate-related financial risk, Federal Acquisition Regulation, FAR
NIST Update on Champlain Towers Collapse Investigation
Overview
On June 24, 2021, part of the Champlain Towers South, a 12-story residential building, collapsed in Surfside, FL, killing 98 people. On June 25, the National Institute of Standards and Techno...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Spectrum Auction Authority: History and Options for Reinstatement
Radio spectrum (“spectrum”) is the continuum of frequencies used to provide wireless services, such as radio broadcasting, mobile communications, and satellite services. It is a finite and valuable re...
Naloxone for Opioid Overdose: Considerations for Congress
Opioids, such as heroin, fentanyl, and some prescription pain medications (including morphine and oxycodone), are substances that act on receptors in the body important in regulating pain and emotion....
Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and FIU Operational Independence
As Congress considers anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) policy options, one factor may include their effect on Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) “operational in...
Export Controls—International Coordination: Issues for Congress
Since the 1940s, the United States has maintained a regime of peacetime controls on exports for national security, foreign policy, and economic purposes. During that time, Congress has increasingly em...