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Constitution Day and Citizenship Day: Fact Sheet
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Reports · 1,447 words · PDF available
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is a federal commemoration observed annually on September 17 by encouraging citizens to learn about their civic responsibilities and opportunities. This fact shee...
U.S.-India Relations: A Summary
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Resources · 1,686 words · PDF available
India, the world’s largest democracy and most populous country, overtook Japan in 2025 to become the fourth-largest economy. India’s expanding strategic horizons and increased engagement with internat...
Financial Data Transparency Act: Implementation Status of Data Standards and Related Data Collection Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Resources · 1,614 words · PDF available
The Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA, P.L. 117-263 §5801 [136 Stat. 3421]), enacted in 2022, requires agencies that oversee the activities of financial institutions to adopt data standards to gov...
The Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument: Commercial Fishing Interests and Considerations for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Resources · 1,670 words · PDF available
Introduction The Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument (PIHMNM; Figure 1), known as the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument until January 2, 2025, is an area in the Central Pac...
Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Resources · 1,495 words · PDF available
Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM; Figure 1) is a systems-level management approach for living marine resources (LMRs) that accounts for an ecosystem’s physical, biological, economic, and soc...
Strobe Talbott's diplomatic legacy
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-25 · Article · 1,816 words
An out-of-the-box thinker, Strobe Talbott was not constrained by conventional wisdom and generally accepted theories.
Supreme Court to Examine Liability of Internet Service Providers for Their Users’ Copyright Infringement
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Posts · 2,976 words · PDF available
The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear arguments in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment during its October 2025 term. Cox v. Sony is a high-stakes copyright dispute brought by reco...
Surface Transportation Reauthorization: Public Transportation
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Reports · 12,708 words · PDF available
Federal funding assistance to public transportation agencies is provided primarily through the public transportation program administered by the Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administ...
High Court Rejects Private Challenges to Medicaid Provider Requirements
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Posts · 2,995 words · PDF available
In June 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, holding that private litigants cannot sue under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Section 1983) to challenge a state...
Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 119th Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Reports · 9,223 words · PDF available
The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is a joint federal-state partnership that consists of two types of benefits: (1) permanently authorized programs, including the Unemployment Compensation (UC) an...
Taiwan and the International Community
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-25 · Resources · 1,594 words · PDF available
Introduction Taiwan, the self-governing Asian democracy that formally calls itself the Republic of China (ROC), has struggled to maintain “international space” for itself in the world. The People’s Re...