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Trump Administration Deactivates the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Posts · 1,012 words · PDF available
The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) was a centralized repository of official records documenting instances of misconduct related to federal law enforcement officers (LEOs) tha...
Executive Actions and Federal Contracting with Small Disadvantaged Businesses
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Posts · 993 words · PDF available
Contracting Goal Origins Since 1988, the federal government has maintained minimum annual goals for contracting with “small disadvantaged businesses” (SDBs). At that time, Congress required that SDBs ...
Current Employment Survey Benchmark Revisions
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Resources · 1,478 words · PDF available
On February 7, 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released annual “benchmark” revisions to official estimates of national-level nonfarm employment from April 2023 through October 2024. These r...
Letters of Marque and Reprisal (Part 1): Introduction and Historical Context
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Posts · 1,249 words · PDF available
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution authorizes Congress to “grant letters of Marque and Reprisal[,]” which are instruments that permit private citizens to seize enemy vessels and their...
Letters of Marque and Reprisal (Part 2): Drafting History and U.S. Practice
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Posts · 1,469 words · PDF available
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution authorizes Congress to “grant letters of Marque and Reprisal[,]” which are instruments that permit private citizens to seize enemy vessels and their...
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act: Reporting of Foreign Gifts and Contracts
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Resources · 1,536 words · PDF available
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA, P.L. 89-329, as amended) establishes foreign gift and contract reporting requirements for certain domestic public and private institutions that (1...
Distribution of Retirement Account Balances: Analysis of the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Resources · 1,089 words · PDF available
Introduction Households rely on a variety of income sources in retirement, such as payments from Social Security and defined benefit (DB) pensions, assets in defined contribution (DC) plans and indivi...
Termination by the U.S. Department of Transportation of New York City’s Central Business District Tolling Program
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Resources · 1,720 words · PDF available
Congress has prohibited tolling of federal-aid highways and passed a series of exceptions to the prohibition. One such exception is the Value Pricing Pilot Program (VPPP). On November 21, 2024, the Fe...
India’s Domestic Political Setting
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Resources · 1,817 words · PDF available
Overview India, the world’s most populous country, is, according to its Constitution, a “sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic” where the bulk of executive power rests with the prime mini...
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Congressional Research Service · 2025-02-26 · Resources · 1,491 words · PDF available
Overview Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal assistance program that provides monthly cash payments to older adults and individuals with qualifying disabilities who have income and resourc...