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The 10-20-30 Provision: Defining Persistent Poverty Counties
Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-10 · Reports · 11,947 words · PDF available
Research has suggested that areas with a poverty rate 20% or greater experience more acute systemic problems than do lower-poverty areas. The poverty rate is the percentage of the population that is b...
Introduction to the Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-10 · Reports · 7,848 words · PDF available
A bill (or other item of business) may travel through a series of steps in the legislative process—from introduction to committee and floor consideration to possible presidential consideration. Howeve...
Federal Capital Punishment: Recent Executive Action
Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-10 · Posts · 1,151 words · PDF available
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order addressing pursuit of the death penalty as a sentencing possibility in federal capital cases. Attorney General Pamela Bondi released a me...
Using Data to Reduce Improper Payments: An Overview of the Do Not Pay Initiative
Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-10 · Resources · 1,635 words · PDF available
Payment integrity—ensuring that payments issued by federal agencies are accurate and proper—is a central concern in the stewardship of taxpayers’ dollars. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ide...
Global Pandemics: Gain-of-Function Research of Concern
Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-10 · Resources · 1,622 words · PDF available
Gain-of-function (GOF) research is a broad area of scientific inquiry that examines how and why an organism gains a new property or an existing property is altered. The terms gain of function and loss...
Selected Potential Considerations with Respect to Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: In Brief
Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-10 · Reports · 6,925 words · PDF available
Congressional and external stakeholders have shown increased interest in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches to mitigate rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. Marine CDR (mCDR, a...
Designating Cartels and Other Criminal Organizations as Foreign Terrorists: Recent Developments
Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-10 · Posts · 1,156 words · PDF available
In furtherance of President Donald Trump’s executive order (E.O.) Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (E.O. 14157 ...
Noncitizen Eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP
Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-10 · Resources · 1,620 words · PDF available
Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provide a health care safety net for low-income populations. Noncitizen (i.e., alien in immigration law) eligibility for these program...
The Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA): Workers’ Compensation for Federal Employees
Congressional Research Service · 2025-03-10 · Reports · 10,386 words · PDF available
The Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) is the workers’ compensation program for federal employees. Like all workers’ compensation programs, FECA pays disability, survivors, and medical benefit...