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Coast Guard Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) Program: Background and Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-08 · Resources · 1,274 words · PDF available
Introduction The Coast Guard’s Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) program envisages procuring 30 replacements for the Coast Guard’s 35 aging river buoy tenders (WLRs), inland construction tenders (WLICs)...
FISA Section 702 and the 2024 Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-08 · Reports · 12,379 words · PDF available
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) provides a legal framework under which the U.S. government can conduct electronic surveillance of non-U.S. persons abroad. This surveill...
The Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS): Overview and 2024 Findings
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-08 · Resources · 1,817 words · PDF available
The Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) is a biennial survey of state and local officials about the administration of federal elections. The survey is conducted for each regular federal e...
Excessive Force and the Fourth Amendment: Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Legal Test
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-08 · Posts · 2,396 words · PDF available
On May 15, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Barnes v. Felix, a case addressing the question of when a police officer’s use of force violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasona...
Supreme Court Clarifies Who Can Hear Challenges to Clean Air Act Actions
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-08 · Posts · 3,047 words · PDF available
On June 18, 2025, the Supreme Court decided EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining and Oklahoma v. EPA, a pair of cases about Clean Air Act (CAA) Section 307(b)(1), which governs judicial review of the U....
The Army’s M-10 Booker (Formerly Known as Mobile Protected Firepower [MPF]) System
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-08 · Resources · 1,425 words · PDF available
What Is the Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) System? The Army’s MPF system is intended to address an operational shortfall in infantry units: Currently the Army’s Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCT) ...