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The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund: Background and Current Status
Congressional Research Service · 2016-01-19 · Reports · 13,388 words
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) provides benefits to nonelderly workers and their eligible dependents if the worker paid Social Security taxes for a certain number of years and is unable t...
The Glass-Steagall Act: A Legal and Policy Analysis
Congressional Research Service · 2016-01-19 · Reports · 15,375 words
The phrase “Glass-Steagall” generally refers to the separation of commercial banking from investment banking. Congress effected a separation of commercial and investment banking through four sections ...
Budget Reconciliation Process: Timing of Committee Responses to Reconciliation Directives
Congressional Research Service · 2016-01-19 · Reports · 8,385 words
When reconciliation directives (also referred to as reconciliation instructions) are included in an annual budget resolution, their purpose is to require committees to develop and report reconciliatio...