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Status of Efforts to Restore Chesapeake Bay Water Quality
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-30 · Resources · 1,763 words · PDF available
For decades, Chesapeake Bay jurisdictions (Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia), multiple federal and local agencies, and others have work...
Fixed Technologies Used to Deliver Broadband Service: A Primer and Considerations for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-30 · Resources · 1,454 words · PDF available
Broadband—in general—refers to technologies that are capable of delivering high-speed internet service. Internet service providers (ISPs) use various technologies to deploy broadband infrastructure, a...
Equal Protection: Strict Scrutiny of Racial Classifications
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-30 · Resources · 1,685 words · PDF available
Under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, “[n]o State shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The same equal protection obligation ...
The 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax: Overview, Data, and Policy Options
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-30 · Resources · 1,343 words · PDF available
Since 2013, certain higher-income individuals have been subject to a 3.8% “unearned income Medicare contribution” tax, more commonly referred to as the net investment income tax (NIIT). The statutory ...
TikTok: Technology Overview and Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-30 · Reports · 7,118 words · PDF available
TikTok is a globally popular video-sharing smartphone application (app) owned by ByteDance Ltd., a privately held company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is under increasing scrutiny by the U.S. g...
The Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-30 · Posts · 2,583 words · PDF available
On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision upending precedent permitting limited use of race in higher education admissions. In an opinion deciding a pair of cases, Students for Fair A...
Forest Service Assistance Programs
Congressional Research Service · 2023-06-30 · Reports · 14,814 words · PDF available
Congress has established several forestry assistance programs within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support the management of state and private forests. These programs are under the juri...