CQ Weekly: The Cover

The highlights of this week’s issue…

In his cover story, Frank Oliveri writes that the military’s many and varied missions are unlikely to change, or even prompt much debate in Congress or at the Pentagon. In “The Power of Inertia.” David Harrison predicts the result from the super committee is a deeper distrust of Congress. And Jane Norman previews how the the Supreme Court decision on President Obama‘s health care law will affect Medicaid and many other federal mandates.