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Golden Dome: Executive Order Overview and Issues for Congressional Consideration
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-16 · Posts · 1,066 words · PDF available
On January 27, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14186, titled The Iron Dome for America. The EO announced a shift in U.S. missile defense policy, expanding the scope of the homeland m...
The Stablecoin Transparency and Accountability for a Better Ledger Economy (STABLE) Act of 2025: An Overview
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-16 · Posts · 1,022 words · PDF available
On April 2, 2025, the House Financial Services Committee ordered to be reported an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 2392, the Stablecoin Transparency and Accountability for a Better Led...
Selected Issues in Tax Reform: The Small Business Start-Up Deduction
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-16 · Resources · 1,714 words · PDF available
Businesses are typically allowed to deduct their start-up costs over a 15-year period. Businesses with low start-up costs are allowed an accelerated deduction for their start-up costs during the year ...
Selected Issues in Tax Reform: Federal Subsidies for Municipal Bond Interest
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-16 · Resources · 1,692 words · PDF available
The federal tax code includes subsidies for interest income earned on state and local (municipal) bonds. Municipal governments issue bonds to investors to finance investments in exchange for interest ...
Economic Development Administration (EDA) Disaster Recovery Funding
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-16 · Infographics · 600 words · PDF available
/ Economic Development Administration (EDA) Disaster Recovery Funding In response to certain major disasters and emergencies, Congress occasionally provides disaster-specific supplemental funding fo...
Compensation for COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-16 · Reports · 10,185 words · PDF available
More than 260 million Americans, and billions of people worldwide, have received one or more doses of a vaccine to protect against COVID-19. Studies estimate that COVID-19 vaccinations have prevented ...
Competition and Antitrust Concerns Related to Generative AI
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-16 · Resources · 1,746 words · PDF available
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies used to generate synthetic content, such as text, images, audio, video, and computer code, are broadly referred to as generative AI (GenAI). One type of GenAI...
Congressional Votes on Free Trade Agreements and Trade Promotion Authority
Congressional Research Service · 2025-04-16 · Reports · 4,752 words · PDF available
Congress has sole constitutional authority to regulate international trade. Since 1934, Congress has periodically authorized the President to negotiate trade agreements. In some circumstances, congres...