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Foreign Relations Reauthorization: Background and Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Resources · 1,462 words · PDF available
Introduction The Constitution gives Congress the power to provide funding, authorize programs, and conduct oversight with respect to the implementation of foreign policy. In exercising these powers, C...
Housing Issues in the 118th Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Reports · 29,693 words · PDF available
Housing affordability is a perennial policy issue, but it has become particularly salient in recent years in light of notable increases in house prices and rents, rising mortgage interest rates, and h...
The Middle East: Selected Issues for the 119th Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Resources · 1,711 words · PDF available
Developments in the Middle East during 2023 and 2024 transformed the security landscape of the region with profound and still unfolding implications for the United States. Changes in the relative capa...
Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: A Primer
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Resources · 1,366 words · PDF available
The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper (Sergeant at Arms) is an elected officer of the Senate and is the chamber’s primary law enforcement and protocol official, responsible for the protection, security,...
House Sergeant at Arms: A Primer
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Resources · 1,513 words · PDF available
The Sergeant at Arms (SAA) is an elected officer of the House of Representatives and is the chamber’s primary law enforcement official and protocol officer, responsible for maintaining security on the...
Port Automation and Payroll Fraud
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Posts · 1,017 words · PDF available
East and Gulf Coast port workers were set to go on strike again on January 15, 2025, had an agreement not been reached with their employers over automated cargo handling equipment. The January 9, 2025...
How much did TCJA raise investment?
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-13 · Article · 13,295 words · PDF available
Ahead of the Trump tax cuts expiring in 2025, William Gale examines the limited effect the cuts had on corporate investment.
The external wealth of nations database
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-13 · Article · 1,840 words
Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Philip Lane curate a database on external financial assets and liabilities for more than 200 countries. The Hutchins Center is now making the entire dataset widely avail...
How do China and America think about the energy transition?
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-13 · Article · 25,769 words · PDF available
China and the United States have very different energy systems and respective advantages and disadvantages in the clean energy transition.
External Wealth of Nations complete update, 2023
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-13 · Article · 2,375 words
This post completes the year-end 2023 External Wealth of Nations, which assembles data on external claims and liabilities of economies around the world.
Immigration enforcement and US schools: What could happen and what education leaders can do
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-13 · Article · 1,533 words · PDF available
Trump's actions could reshape immigration and education, affecting millions of students and thousands of schools.
What is reconciliation in Congress?
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-13 · Article · 1,430 words · PDF available
[author-bio] With the Senate evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, 50 each, giving Vice President Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote, there is a lot of attention to a legislative process ...
Reversing the Long March Through the Institutions
Heritage Foundation · 2025-01-13 · Commentary · 1,568 words
COMMENTARY BYMike Gonzalez@GundisalvusAngeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior FellowMike is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.Sometimes, ostensibly...
When Judges Act Like Politicians, They Deserve To Be Criticized
Heritage Foundation · 2025-01-13 · Commentary · 1,038 words
COMMENTARY BYZack Smith@tzsmithSenior Legal Fellow, Meese Center for Legal StudiesZack is a Senior Legal Fellow and Manager of the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program in Heritage’s Meese Cen...
Compilation of Federal Whistleblower Protection Statutes
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Reports · 46,644 words · PDF available
This report provides information regarding federal whistleblower and employee protection statutes and their text.
Biden Administration Withdraws Offshore Areas from Oil and Gas Leasing: Can a Withdrawal Be Withdrawn?
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Posts · 1,227 words · PDF available
On January 6, 2025, President Joe Biden issued two presidential memoranda directing the withdrawal of areas in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the northern Bering Se...
Wildlife Corridors: Background and Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Reports · 16,169 words · PDF available
Species need connectivity between habitats to seek out sources for food and shelter and, in some cases, to adapt to environmental stressors and climate change. One method of increasing ecological conn...
The Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) in FY2025: Current Status
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Posts · 975 words · PDF available
FY2025 Spending Limits The Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA, P.L. 118-5), enacted in June 2023, established statutory discretionary spending limits for FY2024 and FY2025 for both defense (security) and ...
U.S. Direct Financial Support for Ukraine
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Resources · 1,647 words · PDF available
Background Congress has enacted five emergency supplemental funding measures to address Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. These include the Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 (FY2022 US...
Atmospheric Rivers: Background and Forecasting
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Resources · 1,176 words
An atmospheric river (AR) consists of a long band of water vapor moving through the atmosphere, typically resulting in heavy precipitation over land (Figure 1). Improved AR observations and understand...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH): Background and Congressional Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-13 · Reports · 36,148 words · PDF available
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is the leading federal agency for biomedical and health research. In FY2024, NIH used its over $47 bil...