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District of Columbia FY2025 Budget Status: In Brief
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-25 · Reports · 3,822 words · PDF available
The U.S. Constitution provides Congress with plenary legislative authority over the District of Columbia (DC) as the federal capital. With the passage of the 1973 District of Columbia Self-Government...
Financing Cost-Sharing Reduction Reimbursements to Private Health Plans
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-25 · Posts · 951 words · PDF available
Cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) are subsidies that reduce out-of-pocket expenses (e.g., deductibles) for certain health benefits covered under plans offered through the health insurance exchanges (i.e....
Artificial Intelligence and Derivatives Markets: Policy Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-25 · Resources · 1,753 words · PDF available
AI Use and Derivatives: Background The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in derivatives markets has ballooned in recent decades, creating new policy issues as well as amplifying existing ones. As of...
Taiwan: Defense and Military Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-25 · Resources · 1,640 words · PDF available
Overview The People’s Republic of China (PRC, or China) claims but has never controlled Taiwan, a self-governing democracy of 23.4 million people located across the Taiwan Strait from mainland China. ...
U.S.-UK Trade Relations: Background and Select Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-25 · Resources · 1,924 words · PDF available
The United States and the United Kingdom (UK) are among the world’s largest economies and are close trade and investment partners (Figure 1). During the first Trump Administration, following the UK’s ...
Energy and Water Development Appropriations for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation: In Brief
Congressional Research Service · 2025-07-25 · Reports · 3,388 words · PDF available
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) nonproliferation and national security programs provide technical capabilities to support U.S. efforts to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation and nucl...