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Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA): Pension Programs
Congressional Research Service · 2024-09-03 · Reports · 5,083 words · PDF available
Within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) administers three veteran pension programs. These programs provide monthly benefits to wartime service vetera...
Animal Disease Traceability: Electronic Identification Requirements
Congressional Research Service · 2024-09-03 · Reports · 7,750 words · PDF available
Animal disease traceability (ADT) is the concept of ensuring a rapid, coordinated national response in the event of an animal disease outbreak by knowing where diseased and at-risk animals are located...
Education Department Updates Title IX Regulations: Protections for Pregnant Students and Employees
Congressional Research Service · 2024-09-03 · Resources · 1,676 words · PDF available
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (hereinafter, “Title IX”) bars sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal financial assistance (20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq.). The U.S. Dep...
Continuity of Congressional Representation: Background and Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2024-09-03 · Reports · 8,627 words · PDF available
Challenges to congressional operations have been posed in the past by a range of incidents. These motivate ongoing consideration of contingency planning options in Congress. In Congress, contingency p...
Courts Consider Recent Agency Regulations Prohibiting Gender Identity Discrimination Before and After Loper Bright
Congressional Research Service · 2024-09-03 · Posts · 2,897 words · PDF available
In spring 2024, the Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) released new regulations interpreting sex discrimination to include gender identity discrimination under two feder...