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The Marine Mammal Commission
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-13 · Resources · 1,619 words · PDF available
Introduction The Marine Mammal Commission (MMC) is an independent advisory agency of the executive branch that provides “independent, science-based oversight” of federal agency policies and actions ad...
Specialty Crops: Selected Farm Bill Programs
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-13 · Reports · 8,138 words · PDF available
The U.S. specialty crop market consists of hundreds of different types of products. Each market has its own set of unique production and marketing conditions. Specialty crops are defined as “fruits an...
Senate Committee Funding Requests and Authorizations, 106th-119th Congresses
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-13 · Reports · 7,125 words · PDF available
In the Senate, a biennial funding process applies to all Senate committees except Appropriations and Ethics, which have permanent authorizations for their staff and operating expenses. The Senate Comm...
Gender and School Sports: Federal Action and Legal Challenges to State Laws
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-13 · Reports · 26,232 words · PDF available
Policymakers have debated how schools should respond when transgender students (students who are assigned one sex at birth but identify with the opposite sex) seek to use facilities or participate in ...
Small Business Research Programs: Selected Issues for Reauthorization
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-13 · Reports · 7,056 words · PDF available
Congress established two programs that support small business research and development (R&D): the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) pr...
Avoiding Putin’s trap in Alaska
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-13 · Article · 1,024 words
In Alaska, Putin will seek to trap Trump into embracing Moscow’s key demands for ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
A challenging moment for the US-India relationship
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-13 · Article · 1,638 words
The current moment’s frictions were predictable, but the challenge is that they have broken in a bad direction for India-U.S. ties.