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The Accessibility of Federal Information and Data: A Brief Overview of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-25 · Resources · 1,695 words · PDF available
Nearly one in four Americans has a disability, according to 2018 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Congress has recognized that in addition to making federal information and data available to the...
Reauthorization of the U.S. Fire Administration and of the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) and Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Programs
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-25 · Reports · 12,935 words · PDF available
The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) is the lead federal agency on fire safety, fire data collection management, public fire education, fire research, and fire service training. It was established in t...
Consumer-Style Protections for Small Businesses: Issues and Options for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-25 · Reports · 7,305 words · PDF available
Small businesses rely on financing to manage their finances, increase inventory, and expand their business operations. Small business lending from banks remains well below pre–Great Recession levels, ...
Direct Loan Program Student Loans: Loan Types and Limits
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-25 · Resources · 1,391 words · PDF available
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) estimates it will make about $135 billion in new loans through the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) program—the primary federal student loan prog...
Defense Primer: FY2024 Department of Defense Audit Results
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-25 · Resources · 1,557 words · PDF available
The Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-576) requires annual audits of financial statements for federal executive agencies, among other requirements. Under the act, audits of federal agenci...
The Pacific Deterrence Initiative
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-25 · Resources · 1,498 words · PDF available
The Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) is a congressionally established set of defense priorities intended to support U.S. strategic goals in the Indo-Pacific region. Background and Purpose PDI origi...
GILTI: Proposed Changes in the Taxation of Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income
Congressional Research Service · 2024-11-25 · Resources · 1,555 words · PDF available
The treatment of income earned abroad in U.S.-controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) has been extensively debated over the years. In the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (P.L. 115-97), the tax treatment of ...