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Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Funding for FY2025
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Resources · 1,031 words · PDF available
Members of Congress are frequently lobbied to add funding to annual defense appropriation legislation for certain medical research programs on a wide variety of diseases and topics. In addressing annu...
The Marine Corps’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV)
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Resources · 1,380 words · PDF available
Background The Marine Corps describes the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) as The Corps’ next-generation vehicle designed to move Marines from ship to shore (Figure 1). Designed to replace the Corps’ a...
Preemption in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Posts · 4,032 words · PDF available
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the sale and use of pesticides in the United States. FIFRA generally ...
Federal Statistical Data for U.S. Territories: Issues and Resources
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Reports · 10,786 words · PDF available
The United States has plenary authority over five major territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). Amo...
Capital Markets and Securities Regulation: Overview and Policy Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Reports · 11,933 words · PDF available
Capital markets are where securities (e.g., stocks, bonds, digital asset securities, and shares of investment funds) are issued and traded. As a main segment of the financial system, capital markets p...
Congressional and Executive Roles in Spending: Legal Frameworks
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Posts · 3,696 words · PDF available
President Donald Trump has made federal spending decisions a centerpiece of his second Administration. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued the first group in a series of executive orders that ...
Congressional and Executive Power Over Spending: Selected Recent Litigation
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Posts · 2,763 words · PDF available
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued the first group in a series of executive orders that seek to align past and future federal spending decisions with the new Administration’s policy prioritie...
DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Appropriations, FY2025
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Resources · 1,250 words · PDF available
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is responsible for renewable energy and end-use energy efficiency technology development. Other activiti...
Congressional Staff: Duties and Qualifications Identified by Members of Congress for Selected Positions
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Reports · 9,565 words · PDF available
The roles, duties, and activities of congressional staff are matters of ongoing interest to Members of Congress, congressional staff, and observers of Congress. Members of the House and Senate establi...
Large-Scale Staff Reductions to AmeriCorps: Potential Impacts and the Chief Executive Officer’s Discretionary Authority
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Resources · 1,450 words · PDF available
In April 2025, the second Trump Administration placed the majority of staff at AmeriCorps—according to media reports, about 85% of the more than 500 full-time employees—on administrative leave with pa...
Immigration Court Proceedings: Process and Data
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Infographics · 645 words · PDF available
/ Immigration Court Proceedings: Process and Data Non-U.S. nationals (“aliens” under law) may be removed from the United States for immigration violations. While an expedited removal process is often ...
Organizing Executive Branch Agencies: Structure and Delegations of Authority
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Reports · 8,973 words · PDF available
In early 2025, the Trump Administration issued executive orders that indicated that the White House may consider reorganizing certain executive branch agencies. In the ensuing months, the Trump Admini...
Congress and the Scope of the President’s Article II Foreign Policy Authorities
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Reports · 23,936 words · PDF available
In foreign policy, the executive branch has at times asserted that the President has authority under Article II of the Constitution to take action unilaterally—both independent Article II authority to...
Tribal Disaster Risk and Selected Federal Resources
Congressional Research Service · 2025-05-02 · Resources · 1,468 words · PDF available
Overview Many federally recognized Tribes (hereinafter Tribes) are vulnerable to natural hazards and may face particular risks from disasters of increasing severity, frequency, and cost. Congress has ...