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High Court to Determine Proper Method to Serve Process on a Foreign Government
Congressional Research Service · 2019-03-27 · Posts · 1,383 words · PDF available
Update: On March 26, the Supreme Court held 8-1 in favor of Sudan, finding that the most natural reading of the statute requires the mailing of service of process directly and expeditiously to the Min...
Congressional Subpoenas: Enforcing Executive Branch Compliance
Congressional Research Service · 2019-03-27 · Reports · 29,958 words · PDF available
Congress gathers much of the information necessary to oversee the implementation of existing laws or to evaluate whether new laws are necessary from the executive branch. While executive branch offici...
Overview of Federal Housing Assistance Programs and Policy
Congressional Research Service · 2019-03-27 · Reports · 21,065 words
The federal government has been involved in providing housing assistance to lower-income households since the 1930s. In the beginning, the federal government played a role in supporting the mortgage m...