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DHS Budget Request Analysis: FY2025
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-21 · Reports · 11,906 words · PDF available
On March 11, 2024, President Joe Biden’s Administration released its budget request for FY2025, including $107.74 billion in total noncontingent budget authority for the Department of Homeland Securit...
Legislative Branch: FY2024 Appropriations
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-21 · Reports · 14,004 words · PDF available
The legislative branch appropriations bill provides funding for the Senate; House of Representatives; Joint Items; Capitol Police; Office of Congressional Workplace Rights; Congressional Budget Office...
AUKUS Pillar 2 (Advanced Capabilities): Background and Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-21 · Reports · 8,340 words · PDF available
AUKUS Pillar 2 refers to a suite of cooperative activities conducted by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia to develop and field “advanced capabilities” under the AUKUS security partn...
The Crime Victims Fund (CVF): Federal Support for Victims of Crime
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-21 · Reports · 10,611 words · PDF available
In 1984, the Crime Victims Fund (CVF, or the Fund) was established by the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA, P.L. 98-473) to provide funding for state victim compensation and assistance programs. Since 1984,...
Military Memorials, Monuments, and Museums: Selected Resources for Federal, State, and Local Funding
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-21 · Reports · 7,026 words · PDF available
This report provides selected resources to aid congressional offices with constituent grantseekers in identifying potential funding opportunities for military-related historic preservation and commemo...
Bulgaria: An Overview
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-21 · Resources · 1,633 words · PDF available
After decades of single-party communist rule and a difficult transition period in the 1990s, Bulgaria joined NATO in 2004 and the European Union (EU) in 2007. Bulgaria’s Black Sea location and NATO an...
EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF)
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-21 · Resources · 1,467 words · PDF available
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed H.R. 5376 (P.L. 117-169), a budget reconciliation measure commonly referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). IRA contains eight titles, each ...
The Armed Forces Retirement Home
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-21 · Resources · 1,291 words · PDF available
Since the late 1700s, Congress has established numerous federal programs to provide housing, housing assistance, and health care support to certain wounded, ill, or injured servicemembers, military re...
Could a single faithless elector cost Joe Biden the presidency?
Brookings Institution · 2024-05-21 · Article · 983 words
If Joe Biden finds himself with exactly 270 electoral votes, a single faithless electoral could hand the election over to Trump.