As it does each year, the group will pore over surveillance information from around the globe, hear presentations from government researchers and weigh recommendations from the World Health Organisation.
As a matter of sound policy, as well as constitutional principle, Congress should participate in weighing recommendations on future military action.
John F. Lehman, a Republican on the panel and the former Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, said that "nothing is off the table" and that the the panel was weighing recommendations ranging from the creation of a domestic intelligence-gathering agency, similar to Britain's MI-5, to the establishment of a new cabinet-level post of national intelligence director.
The Board of Supervisors is weighing recommendations by a commission on ways to fix child protection services in the county.
And while we're at it, let's weigh recommendations from the Milken Institute's "Film Flight" report, which offers policy prescriptions including implementation of a new digital media tax credit and investment in long-term infrastructure and technology upgrades.
Los Angeles County supervisors have begun weighing recommendations to dramatically rework the safety net for tens of thousands of abused and neglected children, including what would be the most significant reorganization of county government since 2007.
Commissioners will weigh recommendations from LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and the department's independent inspector general, who both found the officers were justified in shooting Ford after investigators turned up evidence indicating he grabbed for an officer's holstered gun during a struggle, according to sources familiar with the matter.
As she weighed her recommendation on the Garza case, Ms. Reno said earlier today that she opposed a broad moratorium on federal executions.
And it's a chief reason why university President Wallace D. Loh is weighing a recommendation to drop at least eight of the school's 27 varsity teams.
Mr. Levy is also weighing a recommendation that he press the State Legislature to abolish the 32 community school boards, which have already lost many powers and have been frequently criticized as ineffective and corrupt.
As the University of California weighs a recommendation by its president to drop the SAT's as an admissions requirement, the vast majority of the nation's highly selective institutions, as well as other large public universities, are expected to rely on the tests for the foreseeable future.
