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The 2015 National Security Strategy: Authorities, Changes, Issues for Congress
Description:
This report discusses the National Security Strategy (NSS), a document released by the Obama Administration which states that its purpose is to "set out the principles and priorities to guide the use of American power and influence in the world."
Date:
July 2, 2015
Creator:
Lucas, Nathan J.
Abortion Law Development: A Brief Overview
Description:
This report summarizes the history of legislation on abortion. Moreover, the report discusses the conflict that surrounds the history of the court cases and how it has effected legislation passed since Roe v. Wade. The report also covers how Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton did not cover a variety of issues that have since been raised by states seeking to restrict abortion.
Date:
January 2, 2001
Creator:
Jon, Shimbukuro O.
Abortion Law Development: A Brief Overview
Description:
This report offers an overview of the development of abortion law from 1973 to the present. Beginning with a brief discussion of the historical background, the report analyzes the leading Supreme Court decisions over the past twenty-eight years, emphasizing particularly the landmark decisions in Roe and Doe, the Court’s shift
in direction in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, and the Court’s most recent decision on abortion, Ste…
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Date:
January 2, 2001
Creator:
Lewis, Karen J. & Shimabukuro, Jon O.
Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate
Description:
This report discusses the continued debate amongst congressional policymakers regarding telecommunications reform. A major point of the ongoing discussion is whether action is needed to ensure unfettered access to the Internet.
Date:
July 2, 2014
Creator:
Gilroy, Angele A.
Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate
Description:
This report discusses the current debate over "net neutrality". While there is no single accepted definition of "net neutrality," most agree that any such definition should include the general principles that owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the Internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network, and they should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network.
Date:
July 2, 2014
Creator:
Gilroy, Angele A.
Acquisition Reform in House- and Senate- Passed Versions of the FY2016 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1735)
Description:
This report discusses the similarities and differences between House and Senate versions of the FY2016 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1735).
Date:
July 2, 2015
Creator:
Schwartz, Moshe
Across-the-Board Rescissions in Appropriations Acts: Overview and Recent Practices
Description:
This report provides information on the main components of across-the-board rescissions and recent practices since FY2008. The annual appropriations process reqires an agreement on the level of funding for individual items or accounts but also with regard to the total amount of discretionary budget authority that will be provided for that fiscal year. If that agreed-upon amount requires a reduction in budget authority and sufficient reductions are not associated with individual programs, an al…
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Date:
September 2, 2015
Creator:
Tollestrup, Jessica
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP): Growth Models Under the No Child Left Behind Act
Description:
This report highlights the adequate yearly progress (AYP) concept of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The AYP is the standard of eligibility for grants, of which states must implement AYP policies in all public schools and local education agencies (LEAs). The standard primarily utilizes state test scores to measure the school's eligibility for funding, schools that do not meet AYP standard for two or more consecutive years face consequences. Finally, the report tackles the idea of growth m…
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Date:
August 2, 2007
Creator:
Riddle, Wayne C.
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP): Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
Description:
This report is intended to provide an overview of the Adequate Yearly Process (AYP) concept and several related issues, a description of the AYP provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, and an analysis of the implementation of these provisions by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the states. It will be updated when major administrative actions are taken by ED, or substantial new data on state implementation become available.
Date:
August 2, 2007
Creator:
Riddle, Wayne C.
The Administrating of the Freedom Information Act: A Brief Overview of Executive Branch Annual Reports for 1975
Description:
This report contains information and explanation about the Freedom of Information Act, including statistics and tables.
Date:
September 2, 1976
Creator:
Relyea, Harold C.
Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Appropriations Process: FAQs Regarding Potential Legislative Changes and Effects of a Government Shutdown
Description:
This report provides background information on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It discusses the ACA and the annual appropriations process and the potential impact of a shutdown on ACA implementation.
Date:
October 2, 2013
Creator:
Redhead, C. S.; Tollestrup, Jessica; Liu, Edward C. & Brass, Clinton T.
The Affordable Care Act’s Contraceptive Coverage Requirement: History of Regulations for Religious Objections
Description:
This report summarizes the issues involved with the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) requirement in group health plans for contraceptive coverage. Moreover, the report covers the history of how religious objections to this provision of the ACA have been handled. Specifically, the report discuses this topic in relation to employers providing health insurance for employees.
Date:
April 2, 2015
Creator:
Brown, Cynthia
Afghanistan: Current Issues and U.S. Policy
Description:
The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and…
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Date:
May 2, 2003
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Afghanistan: Elections, Constitution, and Government
Description:
This report discusses the political situation in Afghanistan, more specifically it discusses the recent elections, newly formed constitution and the elected government.
Date:
November 2, 2006
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance
Description:
This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date:
March 2, 2009
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance
Description:
This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai, to address corruption within the Afghan government. The report also includes discussion of election fraud and corruption in Afghanistan.
Date:
March 2, 2011
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance
Description:
This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date:
November 2, 2009
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance
Description:
This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date:
June 2, 2010
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
Description:
This report discusses Afghanistan's government and political structure, ongoing security and defense issues, U.S. assistance to the Afghan military, U.S. humanitarian and economic aid, human rights issues, regional relations, and economic development.
Date:
October 2, 2017
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth & Thomas, Clayton
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
Description:
This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, focusing particularly on the influence of the Taliban and other militant groups and on the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. This report also discusses the U.S.-Afghanistan relationship and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date:
December 2, 2009
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
Description:
This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, focusing particularly on the influence of the Taliban and other militant groups, and on the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. This report also discusses the U.S.-Afghanistan relationship, in both the short and long term, and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date:
December 2, 2014
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
Description:
This report discusses Afghanistan's political transition, which was completed with the convening of a parliament in December 2005. Since then, insurgent threats to Afghanistan's government have escalated to the point that some experts are questioning the future of U.S. stabilization efforts.
Date:
September 2, 2008
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Afghanistan: Soviet Invasion and U.S. Response
Description:
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has raised a number of serious issues and choices for the United States. The train of events seem likely to have an important influence on overall American foreign policy in the 1980s. Reassessment of Soviet motives and of U.S. roles in the world are already in progress. Emerging American attitudes, in turn, will shape more specific policy decisions on several issues, which this issue brief discusses.
Date:
May 2, 1980
Creator:
Library of Congress. Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division.
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