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Process for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Projects
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-29 · Reports · 11,939 words · PDF available
Civil responsibilities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) include undertaking federal water resource development projects and assisting nonfederal environmental infrastructure (EI, typically ...
Stanley v. City of Sanford: Supreme Court Rejects Retiree’s Americans with Disabilities Act Claim
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-29 · Posts · 2,672 words · PDF available
On June 20, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Stanley v. City of Sanford. The Court held that a retired firefighter could not pursue a claim, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA...
Constitutional Considerations in Member Involvement in Executive Agency Actions
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-29 · Posts · 2,771 words · PDF available
Members of Congress and their staffs interact with executive branch agencies for a number of purposes, including carrying out Congress’s functions of overseeing, investigating, and influencing the imp...
Energy and Water Development: FY2026 Appropriations
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-29 · Reports · 20,870 words · PDF available
The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies appropriations (E&W) bill funds civil works activities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the Department of Defense; the Department of...
The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program: Issues for the 119th Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-29 · Reports · 13,629 words · PDF available
Under Section 60102 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA; P.L. 117-58), enacted in late 2021, Congress directed the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information (“...
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-29 · Resources · 1,718 words · PDF available
DFC, a federal agency, uses financial tools to promote private investment in less-developed countries. Its purpose, by statute, is to mobilize private capital to advance U.S. development and foreign p...
Preemption and Privacy Law
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-29 · Reports · 10,700 words · PDF available
Under the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, Congress may displace state law when it is acting within its enumerated constitutional powers. In the realm of consumer privacy, Congress has largely ch...
Points of Order, Rulings, and Appeals in the Senate
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-29 · Reports · 2,307 words · PDF available
The Senate’s presiding officer typically does not have responsibility for proactively ensuring that Senate consideration of matters complies with the chamber’s rules of procedure. Instead, Senators ma...
An Overview of Medical Debt: Collection, Credit Reporting, and Related Policy Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2025-08-29 · Resources · 1,670 words · PDF available
Medical debt is a fairly common occurrence for Americans who have received medical care. This In Focus discusses medical debt; how that debt is collected and reported to credit reporting agencies (als...