New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Child Labor in America: History, Policy, and Legislative Issues, November 18, 2013
Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues, December 5, 2013
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2013, December 5, 2013
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Federal Funding and Issues, December 6, 2013
School Construction and Renovation: A Review of Federal Programs, December 6, 2013
Majority Cloture for Nominations: Implications and the “Nuclear” Proceedings, December 6, 2013
Proposals to Eliminate Public Financing of Presidential Campaigns, December 9, 2013
Expiration and Extension of the 2008 Farm Bill, December 9, 2013
Reauthorization of SNAP and Other Nutrition Programs in the Next Farm Bill: Issues for the 113th Congress, December 10, 2013
Public Health Service Agencies: Overview and Funding, November 12, 2013
U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones: Background and Issues for Congress, November 12, 2013
International Food Aid: U.S. and Other Donor Contributions, November 12, 2013
Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 113th Congress, November 20, 2013
South Africa: Politics, Economy, and U.S. Relations, December 6, 2013
The New START Treaty: Central Limits and Key Provisions, December 5, 2013
The bootcamp brought more than two dozen next-generation open-source practitioners from across the United States to Washington DC, where they participated in interactive modules, group discussions, and hands-on sleuthing.
Fourteen teams from ten U.S. states have been selected as the Stage 2 awardees in the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), a national competition that helps communities turn emerging research into ready-to-implement solutions.
The Fix Our Forests Act provides an opportunity to speed up the planning and implementation of wildfire risk reduction projects on federal lands while expanding collaborative tools to bring more partners into this vital work.
Public health insurance programs, especially Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), are more likely to cover populations at increased risk from extreme heat, including low-income individuals, people with chronic illnesses, older adults, disabled adults, and children.