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Mid-Decade Congressional Redistricting: Key Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-11 · Resources · 1,739 words · PDF available
States typically begin their congressional redistricting processes following the decennial U.S. census and apportionment, at which point states with multiple House seats draw congressional district bo...
Judicial Nomination Statistics and Analysis: U.S. Circuit and District Courts, 1977-2024
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-11 · Reports · 22,858 words · PDF available
The process of appointing judges to U.S. circuit courts of appeals and U.S. district courts is of continuing interest to Congress. The President and the Senate share responsibility for making these ap...
Unauthorized Farmworkers in the United States
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-11 · Resources · 1,665 words · PDF available
In June 2025, some news stations reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had conducted immigration raids of farms and meat processing plants in California, Nebraska, New York, an...
Lebanon
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-11 · Resources · 1,691 words · PDF available
Lebanon in the past year has experienced fundamental, if fragile, changes. Perhaps most significantly, the Iran-backed Shia Islamist group Lebanese Hezbollah has been significantly weakened, having su...
Defense Primer: The United States Air Force
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-11 · Resources · 1,520 words · PDF available
The National Security Act of 1947 (P.L. 80-253, Title II, §207), enacted on July 26, 1947, established the U.S. Air Force as an Armed Force under the Department of the Air Force (DAF). An executive or...
Sponsorship and Cosponsorship of Senate Bills
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-11 · Reports · 2,201 words · PDF available
A Senator who introduces a bill or resolution in the Senate is called its sponsor. Several Senators together may introduce a measure, but only the Senator whose name appears first on the bill is consi...
“The Six Assurances to Taiwan Act”: Status quo, or something new?
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-11 · Article · 1,264 words
Giving the Six Assurances legal force could help to stabilize U.S. policy toward the Taiwan Strait at a time of heightened tension.
Interwoven frontiers: Energy, AI, and US-China competition
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-11 · Article · 4,483 words · PDF available
The future for energy and emerging technologies is as interwoven—and at times as fraught—as the U.S.-China relationship.