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DOD Replicator Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-19 · Resources · 1,585 words · PDF available
Introduction Replicator, unveiled on August 28, 2023, is a Department of Defense (DOD) initiative, led by DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), to field thousands of uncrewed systems by August 2025. (...
Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCMN)
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-19 · Resources · 1,797 words · PDF available
Congress and the executive branch have debated the merits of a new nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) since the weapon was proposed by the first Trump Administration in 2018. The Biden...
U.S. Export Controls and China: Advanced Semiconductors
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-19 · Reports · 7,551 words · PDF available
Semiconductors are strategic and uniquely important electronic devices. They are fundamental to most industrial and national security activities and serve as essential building blocks of other technol...
Judicial Review and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-19 · Reports · 17,082 words · PDF available
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is one of the most frequently litigated federal environmental statutes. NEPA is also one of the most broadly applicable federal environmental statutes, wit...
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act: The Supreme Court Recognizes Statutory Immunity for Firearm Companies in Case Brought by the Government of Mexico
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-19 · Reports · 11,866 words · PDF available
Enacted in 2005, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) generally bars lawsuits in federal or state court against firearm manufacturers, distributors, importers, and dealers when a thir...
Coup-Related Restrictions in U.S. Foreign Aid Appropriations
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-19 · Resources · 1,602 words · PDF available
Political turmoil in Africa and Burma has brought attention to a provision in annual foreign assistance appropriations legislation restricting U.S. aid after a coup d’état. What Is Section 7008? In i...
Presidential Authority to Address Tariff Barriers in Trade Agreements under Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-19 · Resources · 1,558 words · PDF available
The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate trade with foreign nations and to lay and collect duties. Since the 1930s, Congress has periodically authorized the President to negotiate t...
What's at stake at UNGA 2025?
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-19 · Article · 5,533 words · PDF available
Brookings experts unpack the issues at stake during the 2025 United Nations General Assembly meetings.
Congress ready to go on recess without a CR deal
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-19 · Newsletter Article · 68 words
Trump on TV criticism: "They're not allowed to do that."