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Sri Lanka: Background and Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-02 · Resources · 1,647 words · PDF available
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a constitutional democracy situated off the southeastern tip of India’s Deccan Peninsula in the heart of the Indian Ocean. Located along key shipping ...
Clean Vehicle Tax Credit Transfers to Car Dealers
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-02 · Resources · 1,588 words · PDF available
In May 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final regulations for transfers of clean vehicle tax credits from consumers to car dealers. The regulations apply to the clean vehicle credit (CV...
Political Rebalance in Tokyo and U.S.-Japan Relations
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-02 · Posts · 1,028 words · PDF available
The U.S.-Japan alliance has been a centerpiece of the United States’ strategy toward the Indo-Pacific region, as the two countries have grown increasingly aligned in responding to the People’s Republi...
The Impact of the “Securing the Border” Rule on Migrant Encounters and Processing
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-02 · Posts · 1,045 words · PDF available
In FY2023, enforcement encounters by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Southwest border reached their highest recorded annual level (2.5 million ...
Human Rights in China and U.S. Policy
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-02 · Reports · 27,418 words · PDF available
U.S. concern over human rights in China has been a central issue in U.S. relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China), particularly since the PRC Tiananmen crackdown in 1989. Congress ...
Laos
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-02 · Resources · 1,599 words · PDF available
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR or Laos) is one of Asia’s poorest nations, and an authoritarian state, led by the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP). Political participation is heavily...
The Dark Web: An Overview
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-02 · Resources · 1,762 words · PDF available
Many observers of the World Wide Web (web) have described it as having layers. One layer, the surface web, contains indexed content easily accessible with a traditional search engine such as Google. A...