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Bureau of Land Management: FY2025 Appropriations
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-21 · Resources · 1,464 words · PDF available
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in the Department of the Interior (DOI), manages 245 million acres of federal land, nearly all in the West. Under its multiple-use mission, BLM manages lands for d...
The Senate’s Byrd Rule: Frequently Asked Questions
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-21 · Reports · 10,479 words · PDF available
When the Senate is considering a reconciliation bill, Section 313 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act (the Budget Act) prohibits the inclusion of matter that is “extraneous” to a c...
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Reporting on Apportionments
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-21 · Posts · 1,042 words · PDF available
Congress enacts annual appropriations and other budgetary legislation to provide agencies with budget authority, which allows them to spend federal dollars. To prevent agencies from prematurely exhaus...
Economic Perspectives on Electric Vehicle Tax Credits
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-21 · Resources · 1,864 words · PDF available
P.L. 119-21, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), terminated three tax credits for plug-in electric vehicle (EV) purchases: the used clean vehicle credit (UCVC), the credit for qu...
The Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-21 · Infographics · 749 words · PDF available
/ The Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) The ICJ is a permanent international court created in 1945 by the United Nations Charter as "the principal judicial organ of ...
Congressional District Geography Workbook (119th Congress): An Interactive Tool for Congressional Users
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-21 · Posts · 3,066 words · PDF available
This Insight accompanies the Congressional District Geography Workbook, a Microsoft Excel file that congressional users can download from CRS.gov. The workbook provides information about U.S. House di...
Patriot Day: Fact Sheet
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-21 · Reports · 756 words · PDF available
In 2001, P.L. 107-89 designated September 11 as Patriot Day to honor the individuals who lost their lives as a result of the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. The law ...
Beyond the Alaska summit
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-21 · Article · 1,456 words
For now, the outcome of the Alaska and White House summits is that the United States will push to accelerate negotiations to end the war.
Homebuilder in Chief: A Plan to Build 12 Million New Homes
Third Way · 2025-08-21 · Memo · 1,150 words
Democrats need to be the party that makes the middle class affordable and accessible. As part of that, there needs to be a commitment to building more new homes than we have at any other time in the l...
The Five Tickets to the Middle Class
Third Way · 2025-08-21 · Memo · 1,404 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...