Federal Bills, Hearings, Regulations & Executive Orders
Chris Flannery offers a Semiquincentennial fragment.
The return in 2025 of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States heralded the historic end to the gross misuse of billions of dollars in foreign aid as a global tool of radical ideological indo...
July 1, 2024 – July 27, 2026IF12700 New "brand-name" drugs are often protected from generic competition bypatents. In general, a drug manufacturer intending to market a generic version of a brand-...
On June 4, 2026, the Supreme Court issued its decision inHikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. AmarinPharma, Inc., a closely watched patent-infringement case with significant consequences for the generic-...
The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies appropriations (E&W) bill, typically enacted on an annual basis, funds civil works activities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the D...
June 25, 2015 – July 27, 2026IF10246 Since the breakdown in 2019 of negotiations between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to freeze and dismantle the North's nuclear weap...
June 24, 2013 – July 27, 2026R43122 Medicare, the federal health insurance program that pays for covered health services for enrolled beneficiaries, provided coverage to approximately 70.7 million...
When the FY2022 reconciliation law, also known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), was enacted, it brought about a shift in the energy tax credit landscape. Among other changes, the IRA scheduled th...
March 2, 2020 – July 27, 2026IF11441 The Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) program, authorized by Congress in the Arms Export Control Act (AECA;22 U.S.C. §§2751 et seq.), as amended, provides for th...
November 18, 2022 – July 27, 2026R47313 This report provides summaries of a series of short Congressional Research Service (CRS) primers that examine programs and policies included in legislation ...
February 21, 2020 – July 27, 2026IF11437 Under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program, authorized by Congress in the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (AECA; P.L. 90-629;22 U.S.C. §§2751et seq.)...
February 25, 2022 – July 24, 2026IF12055 The Department of Transportation (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program seeks to offer small disadvantaged businesses a fair opportunity to ...
Congress has oversight over the five federal service academies including the three U.S. military service academiesâU.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, and U.S. Military Academyâunder the D...
December 5, 2022 – July 24, 2026IF12267 The William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) program is the largest source of federal financial aid supporting students' postsecondary educational ...
Access to employer-sponsored pensions among private sector workers increased by seven percentage points from 2010 to 2025. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data indicated that 65% of private sector wo...
May 29, 2018 – July 24, 2026R45208 Daylight saving time (DST) is a period of the year between spring and fall when clocks in most parts of the United States are set one hour ahead of standard time...
February 4, 2025 – July 24, 2026IF12898 About every two decades since 1975, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has deployed anewgenerationof geostationary satellites. NOAA ...
August 25, 2025 – July 24, 2026LSB11351 In June 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision inMedina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, holding that private litigants cannot sue under42 U.S.C.Â...
Following theFebruary 2026 expirationof the2010 New START arms control agreement, which reduced U.S. and Russian strategic offensive nuclear forces, some Members of the 119thCongress have held hearing...
February 6, 2024 – July 24, 2026R47911 The February 3, 2023, train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, OH, raised the profile of rail safety issues. Railroad labor organizations and s...