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Overview of Federal Criminal Laws Prohibiting Interference with Voting
Congressional Research Service · 2024-03-15 · Posts · 2,504 words · PDF available
The 2024 U.S. presidential and congressional elections are scheduled to take place on November 5, 2024, with early in-person voting in some states beginning in September. Recent developments such as t...
Dam Removal: The Federal Role
Congressional Research Service · 2024-03-15 · Reports · 21,163 words · PDF available
Dam owners and other stakeholders sometimes consider dam removal as a policy option to address dam safety, ecosystem restoration, or other concerns. For example, dams often affect ecosystem processes ...
U.S.-Latin America Trade and Investment
Congressional Research Service · 2024-03-15 · Resources · 1,649 words · PDF available
The 118th Congress is engaged in a range of legislative and oversight activities related to trade policy toward the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, which is among the United States’ most imp...
U.S. Shale Gas & Federal Lands
Congressional Research Service · 2024-03-15 · Infographics · 456 words · PDF available
/ U.S. Shale Gas & Federal Lands The United States has been the largest producer of natural gas since the advent of shale gas in the mid-2000s. Most of the rise in production has been on private land...
Stafford Act Assistance for Public Health Incidents
Congressional Research Service · 2024-03-15 · Posts · 1,027 words · PDF available
This Insight provides an overview and examples of presidential declarations under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (hereinafter the Stafford Act—42 U.S.C. §5121 et s...
Restricting TikTok (Part II): Legislative Proposals and Considerations for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2024-03-15 · Posts · 3,900 words · PDF available
This Legal Sidebar is the second installment in a two-part series on U.S. efforts to regulate the video-sharing application (app) TikTok. The first installment provided legal background on executive b...
What's in Biden's $850-billion defense budget proposal?
Brookings Institution · 2024-03-15 · Article · 86,632 words · PDF available
By any measure an $850-billion defense budget is an enormous amount of money that will surely raise many eyebrows. What is the money for?