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Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI)
Congressional Research Service · 2024-06-07 · Resources · 1,415 words · PDF available
Background The Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI) can trace its origins to the Second World War, when the U.S. government sought to collect intelligence on Ge...
Suspending the Tax-Exempt Status of Terrorist and Terrorist Supporting Organizations: H.R. 6408 in Context
Congressional Research Service · 2024-06-07 · Posts · 1,371 words · PDF available
H.R. 6408 would establish a process for suspending the tax-exempt status of organizations if the Secretary of the Treasury designates them as “terrorist supporting organizations.” The suspended organi...
Appropriations Duration of Availability: One-Year, Multi-Year, and No-Year Funds
Congressional Research Service · 2024-06-07 · Reports · 5,160 words · PDF available
Controlling the duration for which funds are available to agencies is one of the ways Congress exercises its power of the purse and represents a key set of decisions made during the appropriations pro...
Columbia River System Operations and the Future of the Lower Snake River Dams
Congressional Research Service · 2024-06-07 · Reports · 25,338 words · PDF available
Congress has repeatedly engaged in debates on how to operate and allocate resources from federal projects—such as multipurpose federal dams—to serve various human needs while protecting or conserving ...
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS): Frequently Asked Questions
Congressional Research Service · 2024-06-07 · Reports · 4,199 words · PDF available
This report is divided into an introduction and four discussion sections, each of which addresses a set of questions related to one of four key topics for EGS. Importance The first set of questions ex...