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Veterans’ Educational Assistance Legislation Enacted in the 118th Congress

Congressional Research Service · 2025-06-27 · Reports · 7,990 words · PDF available

The veterans’ educational assistance programs, including the GI Bills, are intended to support recruitment to and retention in the Armed Forces, help servicemembers and veterans adjust to the civilian...

Will Disaster-Stricken Communities Receive FEMA Aid? Proposed Changes to FEMA Public Assistance

Congressional Research Service · 2025-06-27 · Posts · 1,026 words · PDF available

Reports suggest the Trump Administration recently considered changes to procedures that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses to assess requests for Public Assistance (PA) for major disa...

Overview of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Infrastructure (EI) Assistance

Congressional Research Service · 2025-06-27 · Reports · 18,242 words · PDF available

Congress has authorized and appropriated funding for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) environmental infrastructure (EI) assistance for the design and construction of certain infrastructure in spec...

Farm Bill Primer: Programs Without a Budget Baseline

Congressional Research Service · 2025-06-27 · Resources · 1,244 words · PDF available

From a budgetary perspective, many farm bill programs that receive mandatory funding are assumed to continue beyond the end of their authorization. That is, they have a continuing baseline beyond the ...

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Pipelines: Safety, Siting, and Eminent Domain

Congressional Research Service · 2025-06-27 · Posts · 1,042 words · PDF available

Carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines are essential to carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems, promoted by both the Biden and Trump Administrations to reduce emissions of CO2—a greenhouse gas—from power pl...