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The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): An Overview
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-24 · Reports · 9,089 words · PDF available
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requires U.S. transportation fuel to include a minimum volume of renewable fuel each year. The RFS—established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct05; P.L. 109-58)...
Honduras: An Overview
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-24 · Resources · 1,633 words · PDF available
Honduras historically has been a close U.S. partner in Central America. Recurrent instability and weak rule of law have hindered Honduras’s development, however, and contributed to transnational chall...
The National Firearms Act and P.L. 119-21: Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-24 · Resources · 1,751 words · PDF available
The National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) established registration and tax requirements for specified items defined as “firearms” by the statute. Covered weapons include, among others, short-barreled sh...
Colombia’s Antidrug Efforts and the “Failed Demonstrably” Designation
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-24 · Posts · 928 words · PDF available
On September 15, 2025, President Trump determined Colombia had “failed demonstrably,” for the first time in nearly 30 years, to meet its international counternarcotics obligations and to take the meas...
Enhanced Premium Tax Credit Expiration: Frequently Asked Questions
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-24 · Reports · 3,460 words · PDF available
Although the premium tax credit (PTC) has been available since 2014, there is increased congressional interest in the federal subsidy due to the impending expiration of a provision that enhanced the P...
Expiring Health Provisions of the 119th Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-24 · Reports · 5,245 words · PDF available
This report provides information on selected health provisions that have expired or are scheduled to expire during the 119th Congress (i.e., calendar years [CYs] 2025 and 2026). For purposes of this r...
House Committee Funding: Process and Historical Appropriations and Authorizations
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-24 · Reports · 9,136 words · PDF available
This report provides an overview of funding for committees in the House of Representatives. In particular, it includes information on House consideration of the biennial committee funding resolution f...
The signal and substance of the new Saudi-Pakistan defense pact
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-24 · Article · 2,230 words · PDF available
Countries across the region may rightly view the Saudi-Pakistan defense pact as a hedge against over-dependence on great powers, and may well seek to do the same.
Democrats add back U.S. House seat in Arizona
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-24 · Newsletter Article · 62 words
Trump cancels any shutdown meeting with top Dems
More is More: An All-of-the-Above Strategy for America’s Energy Cost Crisis
Third Way · 2025-09-24 · Memo · 2,041 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,...
Professional Program Exceptions Would Swallow the Rule on Loan Limits
Third Way · 2025-09-24 · Blog · 1,072 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,...
The Republican Health Care Price Hike
Third Way · 2025-09-24 · Memo · 646 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,...