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Defense Primer: Intelligence Support to Military Operations
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Resources · 1,301 words · PDF available
The statutory responsibility for resourcing and coordinating the activities of the Intelligence Community (IC) in support of military activities belongs to two senior officials: The Director of Natio...
Exchange Rates and Currency Manipulation
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Resources · 1,599 words · PDF available
At various points over the past two decades, some Members of Congress have expressed concerns that other countries are engaging in currency manipulation—that is, purposefully using exchange rate polic...
Turkey (Türkiye), the PKK, and U.S. Involvement: Chronology
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Resources · 1,556 words · PDF available
Turkey’s (alt. Türkiye) decades-long struggle with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Kurdish acronym PKK) has fostered both cooperation and contention between the United States and Turkey. The PKK, a U.S....
The country needs to build homes and community like Jimmy Carter
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-10 · Article · 1,163 words
The only thing that suggests our nation doesn’t have a housing crisis is the alarming length of time we’ve allowed it to persist without meaningful action. Since the housing crisis of 2007–2008, we se...
Trump’s Targeted Tariff Proposals Are Already a Notable Success
Heritage Foundation · 2025-01-10 · Commentary · 939 words
COMMENTARY BYAndrew HaleJay Van Andel Senior Policy Analyst in Trade PolicyAndrew is the Jay Van Andel Senior Policy Analyst in Trade Policy in Heritage’s Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy ...
Tariffs and Federal Finances: A Thumbnail History
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Posts · 1,258 words · PDF available
Tariffs and other customs charges were the largest source of federal revenues in the 18th and 19th centuries. Tariffs are taxes on imported goods. This Insight offers a brief history of U.S. tariff po...
Farm Bill Primer: Hemp Industry Support and Regulation
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Resources · 1,766 words · PDF available
Hemp is a variety or cultivar of Cannabis sativa—the same plant as marijuana—grown to produce nonpsychoactive food, beverage, consumer, and industrial products. The 2018 farm bill (Agriculture Improve...
FDA Oversight of Food Safety and Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Resources · 1,662 words · PDF available
Background The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that foodborne pathogens account for 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths per year. In 2024, the Fo...
FY2025 NDAA: TRICARE Coverage of Gender-Affirming Care
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Posts · 1,233 words · PDF available
Background The Department of Defense (DOD) administers a statutory health entitlement (under Title 10, Chapter 55, of the U.S. Code), through the Military Health System (MHS). The MHS offers health ca...
Members’ Representational Allowance: History and Usage
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Reports · 13,055 words · PDF available
Members of the House of Representatives have one consolidated allowance, the Members’ Representational Allowance (MRA), with which to operate their offices. The first full year of the MRA was the seco...
Canada: Background and U.S. Relations
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Reports · 33,608 words · PDF available
The United States and Canada are close partners, bound together by a 5,525-mile border as well as by shared history and values. The countries maintain long-standing mutual security commitments under N...
Department of Defense-Minority Business Development Agency November 2024 Memorandum of Understanding
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Posts · 1,015 words · PDF available
On November 19, 2024, the Department of Defense (DOD’s) Office of the Under Secretary for Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment and the Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency ...
Tribal Self-Determination Authorities: Overview and Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-10 · Reports · 21,797 words · PDF available
Congress has broad authority over issues relating to federally recognized Tribes (hereinafter, Tribes), and its approach to tribal issues has fluctuated over time. Beginning in the 1970s, Congress est...