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The Orphan Drug Act and Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., v. Becerra
Congressional Research Service · 2023-08-17 · Reports · 10,194 words · PDF available
Orphan drugs are used to treat rare diseases and conditions, but they can be costly to produce and are generally used to treat fewer than 200,000 people in the United States. In 1983, Congress enacted...
Immigration Options for Immigration Parolees
Congressional Research Service · 2023-08-17 · Reports · 5,987 words · PDF available
Since 2021, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has granted immigration parole through special initiatives to more than 350,000 persons from Afghanistan, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Ukraine, and Ven...
Online Age Verification (Part III): Select Constitutional Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2023-08-17 · Posts · 2,350 words · PDF available
This Legal Sidebar is the third installment in a three-part series on efforts to require online services to verify the ages of their users. Part I provided an overview of elements common in age verifi...
Online Age Verification (Part II): Constitutional Background
Congressional Research Service · 2023-08-17 · Posts · 1,522 words · PDF available
This Legal Sidebar is the second installment in a three-part series on efforts to require online services to verify the ages of their users. Part I discussed the common elements of online age verifica...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Federal Election Campaigns: Legal Background and Constitutional Considerations for Legislation
Congressional Research Service · 2023-08-17 · Resources · 1,745 words · PDF available
Introduction Federal campaign finance law does not specifically regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in political campaign advertising. As technology continues to evolve, concerns have gro...
Mountain Valley Pipeline Litigation Tests Congress’s Power to Limit Federal Court Jurisdiction
Congressional Research Service · 2023-08-17 · Posts · 1,925 words · PDF available
The Mountain Valley Pipeline (Pipeline), currently under construction, is planned as a 303-mile natural gas transmission pipeline that would link natural gas fields in West Virginia to the existing Tr...
Online Age Verification (Part I): Current Context
Congressional Research Service · 2023-08-17 · Posts · 1,448 words · PDF available
For almost as long as the internet has existed, journalists and lawmakers have sounded alarms over children’s ability to access harmful material online. The targeted material has expanded over the yea...
Foreign Students: Screening and Monitoring
Congressional Research Service · 2023-08-17 · Infographics · 328 words · PDF available
/ Foreign Students: Screening and Monitoring There were about 1.3 million foreign post-secondary students and scholars in the United States in 2022, and about 7,500 post-secondary U.S. schools were ap...
Fire Management Assistance Grants: Frequently Asked Questions
Congressional Research Service · 2023-08-17 · Reports · 4,171 words · PDF available
Section 420 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (P.L. 93-288, hereinafter the Stafford Act) authorizes the President to “declare” a Fire Management Assistance Grant ...