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Small Business Administration HUBZone Program
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-14 · Reports · 11,286 words · PDF available
The Historically Underutilized Business (HUBZone) program provides certified small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty, or high unemployment with contracting opportunities in the...
Infrastructure Spending and the District
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-14 · Resources · 1,630 words · PDF available
The federal government invests in many types of physical infrastructure that are, with the exception of federal water resource projects, predominantly owned by state and local governments or privately...
Electricity: Overview and Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-14 · Reports · 5,540 words · PDF available
Electricity is of perennial interest to Congress, especially the policy issues of reliability, security, affordability, and greenhouse gas emissions. The electricity sector is made of up three distinc...
U.S. Department of Education: Background and Statutorily Established Officers, Positions, and Offices
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-14 · Reports · 5,731 words · PDF available
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) was established by the Department of Education Organization Act (DEOA, P.L. 96-88) on October 17, 1979, to “ensure that education issues receive proper treatment ...
Organ Procurement and Transplantation: Administration, Oversight, and Policy Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-14 · Reports · 16,116 words · PDF available
In 2022, while there were over 42,000 organ transplants being done in the United States, there were still 103,327 people on the organ transplant wait list. The U.S. organ transplant system comprises m...
The Hazardous Substance Superfund Trust Fund
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-14 · Resources · 1,811 words · PDF available
Decades of industrial and commercial activities involving various chemicals resulted in environmental contamination at thousands of sites in the United States, including federal facilities that served...