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U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Process and Potential Effects
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-14 · Reports · 10,647 words · PDF available
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14162, in which Section 3(a) provided direction to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) regarding withdrawing the United St...
Measuring the Impacts of the H-1B Visa Program on Foreign Labor Markets: Two Recent Quasi-Experimental Studies
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-14 · Resources · 1,749 words · PDF available
The H-1B visa program, created by the Immigration Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-649), allows U.S. employers to hire temporary foreign workers in specialty occupations requiring a college degree. Many H-1B wor...
U.S.-Canada Relations amid Tariffs Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-14 · Posts · 1,048 words · PDF available
On February 1, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14193, stating that “the failure of Canada to do more” to address illicit fentanyl and other drug trafficking “constitutes an unus...