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Content and Consideration of the Budget Resolution: In Brief
Congressional Research Service · 2022-12-15 · Reports · 3,891 words · PDF available
The concurrent resolution on the budget was established in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Budget Act) to provide Congress with a means for adopting a fiscal framework for the federal government...
Energy Transition: Affordability, Emissions, and Security
Congressional Research Service · 2022-12-15 · Resources · 1,455 words · PDF available
Overview The United States is undergoing a transition in the energy sector, with a shift in energy supplies and production over relatively short periods of time. Over the last 20 years, natural gas ha...
Budget Process Reform: In Brief
Congressional Research Service · 2022-12-15 · Reports · 2,707 words · PDF available
Many Members of Congress have expressed frustration with the budget process or with budgetary outcomes. No consensus has emerged, however, regarding specific problems to be addressed by possible refor...
eDNA/eRNA: Scientific Value in What’s Left Behind
Congressional Research Service · 2022-12-15 · Resources · 1,462 words · PDF available
Environmental deoxyribonucleic acid (eDNA) and environmental ribonucleic acid (eRNA) are trace amounts of genetic material collected from an environmental sample, such as from soil, terrestrial and aq...
Recent Cryptocurrency Developments: Energy and Environmental Implications
Congressional Research Service · 2022-12-15 · Resources · 1,582 words
Cryptocurrency mining (“cryptomining”) is the process of creating additional units of cryptocurrency—a type of digital asset—and validating cryptocurrency transactions on a blockchain ledger. Accordin...