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Designing Congressional Commissions: Background and Considerations for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2022-05-02 · Reports · 12,928 words · PDF available
Congressional advisory commissions are temporary entities established by Congress to provide advice, make recommendations for changes in public policy, study or investigate a particular problem or eve...
Puerto Rico’s Public Debts: Accumulation and Restructuring
Congressional Research Service · 2022-05-02 · Reports · 29,853 words · PDF available
Puerto Rico’s public debts totaled just over $70 billion when the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (P.L. 114-187; PROMESA) became law on June 30, 2016. Most of those debts...
Refining Reed: City of Austin Updates Test for Content-Based Speech Restrictions
Congressional Research Service · 2022-05-02 · Posts · 2,043 words · PDF available
The Supreme Court’s April 21, 2022, decision in City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC is the latest development in the Court’s free speech jurisprudence on content neutrality. C...
Federal Retirement Plans: Frequently Asked Questions
Congressional Research Service · 2022-05-02 · Reports · 10,954 words · PDF available
This report answers common questions related to federal retirement plans. The vast majority of the civilian federal workforce is covered by either the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or the Fed...