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The Federal U.S. Gold Stock
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-23 · Resources · 1,647 words · PDF available
Today, gold transactions and other uses are almost entirely a private market function. However, historically, gold was bought and sold by the U.S. government (and many other governments) for a variety...
The Weatherization Assistance Program Formula
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-23 · Reports · 10,993 words · PDF available
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) enables low-income families to reduce their energy consumption by making their dwellings more energy efficient. The WAP was a...
Identifying Minors Online
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-23 · Reports · 10,594 words · PDF available
Concerns about potential harms to minors on the internet, particularly on social media platforms, have grown in recent years. Dating to the 1990s, policymakers have enacted legislation seeking to prot...
The U.S. Department of State: Background and Selected Issues for the 119th Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-23 · Resources · 1,488 words · PDF available
Background Created by an act of Congress in 1789, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) is the executive branch’s lead foreign affairs agency and oldest cabinet agency. The Secretary of State, appointed...
Ellingburg v. United States: Supreme Court to Hear Ex Post Facto Clause Challenge to Criminal Restitution Statute
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-23 · Posts · 2,759 words · PDF available
On October 14, 2025, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in Ellingburg v. United States, a case presenting the question whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitu...
FY2026 Budget Request for the Military Health System
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-23 · Resources · 1,483 words · PDF available
In June 2025, President Donald J. Trump submitted to Congress his Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget request, which included $848.3 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Defense (DOD), whic...
A bromance revived: Erdoğan returns to the White House after 4 years
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-23 · Article · 1,539 words
Erdoğan's White House visit will be a reunion of two leaders with similar views about the global order and who govern with increasingly similar instincts.
Border numbers tick up in August - but remain very low
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-23 · Newsletter Article · 1,805 words
Bipartisan group presses to kill 'coffee tax'
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