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Wilderness: Issues and Legislation
Congressional Research Service · 2022-10-12 · Reports · 10,210 words · PDF available
The Wilderness Act of 1964 established the National Wilderness Preservation System and, in it, Congress reserved for itself the authority to designate federal lands as part of the system. As of Septem...
Ranked-Choice Voting: Legal Challenges and Considerations for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2022-10-12 · Posts · 1,953 words · PDF available
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is an alternative voting system that allows voters to rank multiple candidates on a ballot in order of preference. RCV has been adopted in at least 50 jurisdictions across t...
FTC Considers Adopting Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rules
Congressional Research Service · 2022-10-12 · Posts · 2,536 words · PDF available
On August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) announcing that the agency is considering enacting new regulations on “commercial survei...
The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act
Congressional Research Service · 2022-10-12 · Resources · 1,569 words · PDF available
The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (Pittman-Robertson; 16 U.S.C. §§669 et seq.), initially enacted in 1937 as the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (50 Stat. 917), provides funding f...
Reserve Funds in the Congressional Budget Process: Frequently Asked Questions
Congressional Research Service · 2022-10-12 · Reports · 2,921 words · PDF available
Reserve funds authorize the chair of the Budget Committee to revise the budgetary levels agreed to in the budget resolution in order to accommodate certain policies or legislation. A reserve fund prov...
Data Protection and Privacy Law: An Introduction
Congressional Research Service · 2022-10-12 · Resources · 1,608 words · PDF available
Recent controversy surrounding how third parties protect the privacy of individuals in the digital age has raised national concerns over legal protections of Americans’ electronic data. The current le...
Environmental, Social and Governance Funds: SEC-Proposed Disclosure Reform
Congressional Research Service · 2022-10-12 · Resources · 1,672 words · PDF available
On May 25, 2022, citing concerns over lack of consistent, comparable, and reliable investor disclosures regarding environmental, social, and governance (ESG) fund and ESG investment adviser strategies...
Bankruptcy Basics: A Primer
Congressional Research Service · 2022-10-12 · Reports · 20,517 words · PDF available
U.S. bankruptcy law has two central aims. First, it seeks to relieve debtors of certain financial obligations they are unable to satisfy by providing them with a “fresh start” from those difficulties....