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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and U.S. Trade Policy
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-17 · Resources · 1,700 words · PDF available
Intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement are key components of U.S. trade policy, and the United States plays a leading role in global IPR trade (Figure 1). Congress has a constit...
Overview of Child Support Enforcement (CSE) Access to Taxpayer Data and Recent Law (Title II of P.L. 118-258)
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-17 · Posts · 1,097 words · PDF available
The Supporting America’s Children and Families Act (P.L. 118-258) was enacted on January 4, 2025. Title II of the law, which passed the House on September 18, 2024, 405-10, and was approved in the Sen...
Responses to Midnight Rulemaking: Legal Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-17 · Posts · 2,834 words · PDF available
Federal agencies often increase rulemaking activity during the final months of a presidential administration—a phenomenon commonly known as “midnight rulemaking.” For example, since Election Day, Nove...
Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire in Gaza
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-17 · Posts · 1,188 words · PDF available
After 15 months of war in Gaza, Israel and Hamas (a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, or FTO) have agreed to begin the first phase of a hostage-prisoner exchange and possible three-phase...
Ben Bernanke’s contributions to economics
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-17 · Article · 892 words · PDF available
A summary of the American Economics Association's Jan. 2025The Brookings Institution is financed through the support of a diverse array of foundations, corporations, governments, individuals, as well ...
Congestion pricing is now a viable option for US cities’ transportation policymaking
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-17 · Article · 175 words
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority earlier this month launched New York City’s congestion pricing program, with early indications the program is achieving its aims.
Will Trump’s inaugural address recognize America’s key demographic shifts?
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-17 · Article · 15,818 words · PDF available
As many Americans focus on President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, his Day 1 pronouncements, and the policies he plans to introduce, one question is: Will these actions recognize key demographic ...
Gaza ceasefire: What the Israel-Hamas agreement means
Brookings Institution · 2025-01-17 · Article · 2,408 words
On Wednesday, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire and hostage-for-prisoner release agreement. Natan Sachs breaks down the situation.
End the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Heritage Foundation · 2025-01-17 · Commentary · 1,226 words
A view of the National Public Radio (NPR) headquarters on North Capitol Street February 22, 2023 in Washington, D.C.Drew Angerer / Getty ImagesKey TakeawaysNPR and PBS covered themselves in infamy wit...
Is Intifada Coming to America?
Heritage Foundation · 2025-01-17 · Commentary · 1,053 words
A sign reading "Globalize The Intifada" is seen on the ground as people demonstrate in support of Palestine in Brooklyn, New York, July 31, 2021.KENA BETANCUR / AFP / Getty ImagesKey TakeawaysIntifada...
Americans Must Solve a Civilization-Level Crisis.
Heritage Foundation · 2025-01-17 · Commentary · 2,240 words
Young men without both parents are more likely to spend time in prison than graduate college.Maskot / Getty ImagesKey TakeawaysThe main driver of the boy crisis is dad deprivation.Opportunities for me...
UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA): Background and U.S. Funding Trends
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-17 · Resources · 1,674 words · PDF available
Amid the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, developments related to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which provides ...
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-17 · Resources · 1,474 words · PDF available
Overview The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an independent agency established in 2004 by the Millennium Challenge Act (Title VI of Division D, P.L. 108-199). It was created amid intense con...
Montana’s TikTok Ban Goes Before the Ninth Circuit
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-17 · Posts · 1,477 words · PDF available
On November 30, 2023, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a law banning TikTok’s Montana operations. Without the district court’s preliminary injunction, th...
No Surprises Act (NSA) Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Process Data Analysis for 2023
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-17 · Reports · 9,600 words · PDF available
The No Surprises Act (NSA), part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260), established various consumer protections related to surprise billing—that is, circumstances in which indiv...
FY2025 NDAA: Reproductive Health Care Provisions
Congressional Research Service · 2025-01-17 · Posts · 1,525 words · PDF available
Background The Department of Defense (DOD) administers a health entitlement (under Title 10, Chapter 55, of the U.S. Code) through the Military Health System (MHS). The MHS offers health benefits and ...