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Is the Indian Child Welfare Act Constitutional?
Update: After this Sidebar was originally published, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Fifth Circuit) reviewed a district court decision that held the Indian Chil...
Domestic Terrorism: Some Considerations
Introduction Mass shootings and other recent events have led to suggestions for (1) making domestic terrorism a separate federal crime; (2) affording law enforcement agencies authority comparable to t...
Federal Communications Commission: Progress Protecting Consumers from Illegal Robocalls
Congressional Research Service · 2019-08-12 · Resources · 1,547 words · PDF available
Robocalls are the top complaint received by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and a consistent congressional concern. In 2016, the FCC received 150,000 robocall-related complaints; in 2018, ...
2018 Farm Bill Primer: Support for Indian Tribes
Congressional Research Service · 2019-08-12 · Resources · 1,723 words · PDF available
The 2018 farm bill (Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, P.L. 115-334) expanded existing programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support production, economic and communit...