Independent Bids for President, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that have been withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Independent Bids for President, CRS Legal Sidebar, January 6, 2016
The Presidential Nominating Process and the National Party Conventions, 2016: Frequently Asked Questions, updated December 30, 2015
H.R. 1927: Congress Proposes Additional Prerequisite for Class-Action Certification, CRS Legal Sidebar, January 5, 2016
The Animal Welfare Act: Background and Selected Animal Welfare Legislation, updated January 5, 2016
Water Quality Issues in the 114th Congress: An Overview, updated January 5, 2016
Congress and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2016, CRS Insight, January 5, 2016
Use of the Annual Appropriations Process to Block Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (FY2011-FY2016), January 5, 2016
EPA and the Army Corps’ Proposed Rule to Define “Waters of the United States”, January 4, 2016
Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)/Frigate Program: Background and Issues for Congress, updated January 5, 2016
U.S.-Mexican Security Cooperation: the Mérida Initiative and Beyond, updated January 5, 2016
Cyprus: Reunification Proving Elusive, updated January 5, 2016
State, Foreign Operations Appropriations: A Guide to Component Accounts, updated January 5, 2016
The Motion to Recommit in the House of Representatives, January 6, 2016
Using Data to Improve Defense Acquisitions: Background, Analysis, and Questions for Congress, January 5, 2016
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.