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Israel: Major Issues and U.S. Relations
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-05 · Reports · 20,852 words · PDF available
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been at war with the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas (a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, or FTO), which led attacks on that day from the Gaza St...
Funding Limits on Federal Prosecutions of State-Legal Medical Marijuana
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-05 · Posts · 2,646 words · PDF available
Federal law generally prohibits the production, distribution, and possession of marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes. In May 2024, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) proposed to...
Syria: Conflict Resurgence
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-05 · Posts · 1,161 words · PDF available
Two coalitions of armed groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar Al Asad (alt. Assad) have made rapid and unexpected advances since late November 2024, taking Aleppo, the country’s second largest cit...
Federal Aviation Administration Oversight of Boeing
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-05 · Resources · 1,802 words · PDF available
Commercial air travel is one of the safest forms of transportation, and fatal crashes are extremely rare. Between 2013 and 2022, U.S. air carriers flew more than 175 million cumulative flight hours an...
Bank Holding Companies: Background and Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-05 · Reports · 17,566 words · PDF available
Companies that control banks are required to be regulated and supervised by the Federal Reserve (Fed) as bank holding companies (BHCs). The BHC structure is widely used by both small community banks w...
Budgetary Decisionmaking in Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-05 · Resources · 1,570 words · PDF available
The Congressional Budget Process The congressional budget process may be better understood as an array of legislative opportunities for affecting the federal budget rather than a linear set of events....
Artemis: NASA’s Program to Return Humans to the Moon
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-05 · Resources · 1,524 words
Between 1969 and 1972, the Apollo program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) landed 12 American men on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth (see Figure 1). Since then, n...
Exploring and improving how state water funding flows amid a surge in federal infrastructure investment
Brookings Institution · 2024-12-05 · Article · 7,395 words · PDF available
The United States’ water infrastructure—including its drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems—faces enormous investment gaps.