Recommended in 1972
Workplace heat regulation, the Army's Golden Dome update, federal support for transit-oriented development, and revised U.S.-China tariff figures. Four CRS products from August 18.
What Congress Should Be Reading
Tracking newly released CRS reports with plain-language synopses, analysis, and links to supplementary resources—written by a government information librarian, not a federal employee.
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Meet Me in the Parking Garage
The reporter's privilege, the trafficking data nobody has, U.S.-China trade in retreat, the hemp deadline fight, and the FCC's review of E-Rate. August 17 products.
Three Days Late and Short One Opinion
ICE outside the annual bill, companion chatbots, health-record cuts, AGOA expiring, China tariffs, a dairy farm in Ecuador, contractor suits, Florida wetlands, smoke, elder abuse, Medicare rules.
Eleven on the Thirteenth
Five new products, six updated; nine covered here for the first time. Birthright citizenship, post-Maduro Venezuela, expiring Defense Production Act, wildland fire smoke, and deferred maintenance.
An Em Dash Means No
Federal water infrastructure funding, an SBA grant program, FY2027 military end-strength, the uncrewed MQ-25 Stingray, Taiwan presidential transits, and China's Belt and Road. August 12 CRS products.
Eleven on August Eleven
Screwworm, Russian sabotage, inspectors general, secret-evidence removal, health data privacy, AR-15 litigation, expiring health provisions, budget resolutions, streets, forests, democracy indices.
Show Your Work
August 10 products on SBA's inspector general and health AI liability, plus updates on Medicare insolvency, child welfare funding, the Space Force, and USMCA labor provisions.
Depends How You Read It
Hormuz shipping and energy markets, Russia-Ukraine diplomacy, Chinese e-commerce and duty-free imports, and the ANWR oil and gas program. August 7 CRS products.
Purposefully, Knowingly, Recklessly, Negligently
Two proposed rules on mailing and buying guns remotely, CRS's full China-Africa file, the FCC's two Universal Service proceedings, and a one-page guide to criminal intent.
Small Things Compound
Driverless freight trains, a nuclear compendium, and Taiwan's arms package as a "negotiating chip." August 5 CRS products.
SNAP Judgment in the Senate
SNAP cost-sharing, Fed skinny accounts, gun part imports, a hospice freeze, Senate security money, the Fifth Amendment, Taiwan's Six Assurances, and alien registration. August 4 products.