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CRS_R43476
{ "title": [ "", "Labor Market Conditions During theGreat Recession and Current Recovery", "Contraction and Recovery in the Labor Marketas Measured by Unemployment and Employment", "The Labor Force Participation Rate Has Continued to Fall During the Recovery", "The Labor Market Experience of Selec...
{ "question": [ "What has characterized recent developments in the economy?", "What does the change in unemployment rates suggest?", "What does the current unemployment rate suggest?", "How useful is the unemployment rate as a proxy for the overall economy?", "How might we interpret the 2013 decli...
GAO_GAO-16-238
{ "title": [ "Background", "Modes of Transportation, Program Eligibility, and other Key NEMT Features Are Different under Medicare and Medicaid", "Medicaid Key Features", "CMS Oversight of NEMT Varies by Program, with CMS Using a Range of Activities to Oversee Medicaid NEMT", "CMS Uses Regular Ove...
{ "question": [ "What NEMT benefits do Medicare and Medicaid offer?", "When does Medicare provide NEMT via ambulance?", "When does Medicaid provide NEMT via ambulance?", "What authority do states have regarding NEMT?", "What different models are used?", "What do the Centers for Medicare & Medi...
CRS_R44452
{ "title": [ "", "Overview", "Background", "1863 Enrollment Act and Civil War Conscription", "Selective Service Act of 1917 and World War I Conscription", "The Selective Training and Service Act and World War II", "Consideration of Universal Compulsory Service", "Post-World War II, the...
{ "question": [ "What is the Military Selective Service Act?", "What is the budget of SSA?", "What is the main function of SSS?", "What does this database contain?", "What is the SSS personnel situation?", "What does MSSA require of young males?", "What is the penalty for men who fail to r...
GAO_GAO-14-66
{ "title": [ "Background", "OMB’s Roles and Responsibilities for Overseeing IT Investments, Including Operations and Maintenance", "GAO Has Previously Reported on IT Investments in O&M", "The 10 O&M IT Investments with the Largest Budgets Support Agencies in a Variety of Ways and Represent a Significa...
{ "question": [ "Which investment underwent an operational analysis?", "What did DHS's OA address?", "What is the reason for not addressing some factors?", "What did the remaining agencies do?", "Why did they not assess their investments?", "What is the risk of not assessing operational invest...
GAO_GAO-12-468
{ "title": [ "Background", "NNSA and Its M&O Contractors Use Multifaceted Strategies to Recruit, Develop, and Retain Their Workforces", "NNSA Focuses on Attracting Early Career Federal Workforce Hires with Competitive Pay, Flexible Schedules, and Development Opportunities", "M&O Contractors’ Recruitme...
{ "question": [ "Why does the NNSA monitor key human capital metrics?", "What metrics are being focused on?", "How does the NNSA assess the effectiveness of its contractors’ strategies?", "What issues are there is assessing key human capital metrics?", "What is an example of this inconsistency?", ...
GAO_GAO-17-706
{ "title": [ "Background", "Refugee Eligibility Requirements and Admissions", "Screening Process for Refugees Seeking to Resettle in the United States", "USRAP Applicant Characteristics Vary; About One-third of Applicants from Fiscal Year 2011 through June 2016 Have Been Admitted to the United States,...
{ "question": [ "What refugees were admitted to the US from FY2011-2016?", "What countries were the majority of refugees fleeing from?", "What were the Resettlement Support Centers (RSC) funded for?", "What is this information used for?", "What measures exist for processing refugees?", "What r...
GAO_GAO-13-569
{ "title": [ "Background", "Custody Rule Requirements and Compliance Costs Vary across Advisers", "Custody Rule Requirements Are Intended to Safeguard Client Assets", "Compliance Requirements and Costs Vary", "SEC Views Advisers Using Related but Operationally Independent Custodians as Posing Rela...
{ "question": [ "What does the rule require advisors with custody to do?", "What is the cost of an advisor?", "How does the level of clients vary?", "When does the rule require advisors to make a report?", "How much do these reports cost?", "Why do advisors often have custody?", "What risk...
CRS_RL33476
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Country Background", "Historical Overview", "Government, Politics, and Society", "Overview", "Political and Societal Evolution", "Current Government", "Corruption Allegations Involving Netanyahu", "Major Domestic Issues", "Economy", "Is...
{ "question": [ "What history exists between Israel and the US?", "How do these ties between the US and Israel affect US policy?", "What aid does the US give Israel?", "How is US aid restricted?", "How does US aid fall into trade?", "What is a large concern for Israel's defense strategy?", ...
GAO_GAO-13-33
{ "title": [ "Background", "HHS Oversight Responsibilities", "National Trends in TANF Expenditures", "States Use Flexible Federal TANF Funds to Emphasize Job Preparation and Work Supports for Low- Income Families and Services for At-Risk Children", "States Focus Federal Funds for Non-Cash Services...
{ "question": [ "Why are Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant funds used?", "For the GAO's analysis, what defined job preparation and work activities?", "How do the 10 chosen states provide cash assistance?", "How do Florida and Utah provide their services?", "How do these s...
GAO_GAO-16-131
{ "title": [ "Background", "Collection and Use of Recreational Fisheries Data", "National Research Council Findings and NMFS’ Implementation of MRIP", "Several Challenges with NMFS’ Fisheries Data Collection Efforts Have Been Identified", "NMFS Has Taken Steps Aimed at Improving Data Collection, b...
{ "question": [ "What challenges is the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) facing?", "What specific data collection issues are being faced?", "What is and example of data quality issues being faced?", "Why doesn't NMFS not hold a complete list of recreational anglers?", "What issues in data ...
CRS_R42814
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction: What To Do With All the Natural Gas?", "Background: The Market Has Changed", "Shale Gas: The Game Changer", "Projected Future Growth", "Natural Gas Prices: A Competitive Advantage", "Contributing Factors", "Natural Gas Liquids: A Production Driver", ...
{ "question": [ "How does the US regard natural gas?", "How have suppliers suffered?", "What change in supplier products has this caused?", "What change in smaller companies has this caused?", "Why have natural gas prices remain low?", "What have larger companies requested?", "What concern...
CRS_R41307
{ "title": [ "", "Overview: Key Current Issues and Developments", "The Obama Administration Strategy", "Notable Developments in Obama Administration Engagement", "Appointment of a U.S. Special Representative (SRAP)", "Policy Reviews, Trilateral Summitry, and Ensuing Diplomacy in 2009", "Af...
{ "question": [ "What US interest is in Pakistan?", "What are the US's specific concerns?", "What counterterrorism and counterinsurgency opinions are held with Pakistan's cooperation?", "What has happened in regard to Pakistan tolerance?", "What challenges does Pakistan pose to the US?", "What...
GAO_GAO-14-407
{ "title": [ "Background", "Both Broad and Targeted Federal Alternative-Fuels Initiatives Support the Development and Use of Alternative Jet Fuels", "Broad Federal Strategies and Initiatives Have Supported Alternative Jet- Fuel Development and Use", "Four Federal Agencies Support Alternative Jet Fuels...
{ "question": [ "What is the main challenge facing the jet fuel market?", "Why is there no current viable market?", "What are the concerns around jet fuel pricing?", "How does this play into private investment?", "How does uncertainty also cite challenges for private investment?", "What potent...
GAO_GAO-14-675
{ "title": [ "Background", "Family Caregiver Program Eligibility Requirements", "Family Caregiver Program Organizational Structure", "Family Caregiver Program Funding", "Family Caregiver Program Application Adjudication Process", "Some VAMCs Had Difficulty Meeting Higher-Than- Expected Demand ...
{ "question": [ "How did the Veterans Health Administration incorrectly estimate the need for their Family Caregiver Program?", "What issues has this caused?", "What is the statistical difference in their estimates?", "How was staffing an issue for the Family Caregiver Program?", "What issues did ...
CRS_RL34721
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "General ESEA Formula Grant Characteristics", "Individual ESEA Program Formulas", "Title I, Part A: Education for the Disadvantaged", "Basic Grants", "Concentration Grants", "Targeted Grants", "Education Finance Incentive Grants (EFIG)", "ESEA T...
{ "question": [ "What does the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) consist of?", "How does the ESEA's larges programs allocate funds?", "What are the formulas?", "What factors do the formulas address?", "How does ESEA funding vary between states and Puerto Rico?", "What is the trend ...
GAO_GAO-18-421
{ "title": [ "Background", "Businesses That Were New, Women- Owned, or Located in Distressed Areas Received a Majority of 7(a) Loan Dollars over the Past 10 Years", "SBA Has Processes in Place to Evaluate Lender Compliance, but Its Lender Reviews Do Not Document Reasons for Noncompliance", "SBA Conduc...
{ "question": [ "How does the Small Business Administration (SBA) authorize 7(a) loans?", "How does the SBA decide the 'credit elsewhere' requirement?", "How do lenders meet the requirement?", "How did GAO evaluate this monitoring?", "How does the SBA collect information on lending?", "How has...
CRS_RL33334
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Animal Biotechnologies", "Embryo Transfer", "Transgenics", "In Vitro Fertilization", "Sexing Embryos", "Cloning", "Gene Knockout", "Regulation and Oversight", "Food and Drug Administration (FDA)", "FDA Guidance on GE Animals", "FDA ...
{ "question": [ "How is animal agriculture changing?", "What is interest in animal agriculture from producers?", "How can transgenic animals impact human health?", "What are the criticisms of this application?", "How has the regulation of animal agriculture been questioned?", "How has the FDA ...
CRS_R44527
{ "title": [ "", "Background", "UC Administration and Benefits", "UC Financing", "Recent Trends in Federal Unemployment Tax Revenues and Expenditures", "Unemployment Taxes and the Budget", "UC Benefits Are Mandatory Entitlements", "Appropriations for UC Administration", "Calculatin...
{ "question": [ "How are federal unemployment taxes stored?", "What do federal unemployment taxes pay for?", "How are state unemployment taxes stored?", "What do state unemployment taxes pay for?", "How are UC benefits mandatory spending?", "What does FUTA impose on employers?", "How does ...
GAO_GAO-15-298
{ "title": [ "Background", "HOPWA Program", "Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program", "Local Government Role in the HOPWA and Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programs", "Estimates of Housing Need for Persons with HIV Are Not Reliable, and the HOPWA Formula Does Not Effectively Target Funds", "With the Number of HIV ...
{ "question": [ "Why is the extent to which persons with HIV need housing assistance unknown?", "Why is the HUD's estimate of this statistic unreliable?", "How has the HUD attempted to become more reliable?", "What does GAO's work on assessing data reliability indicate?", "Why is the HUD's data in...
GAO_GAO-16-83
{ "title": [ "Background", "Panel Size", "Encounters and Expenditures", "VA Lacks Reliable Data on Medical Facilities’ Primary Care Panel Sizes and Does Not Have Effective Oversight Processes to Verify and Use Facilities’ Data to Monitor Primary Care Data Reported by VA Facilities on Primary Care Pane...
{ "question": [ "What did GAO find regarding the VA's data on primary care panel sizes?", "How did VA officials respond to these findings?", "How did GAO process collected data from primary care facilities?", "What did this data reveal?", "What concerns does this data raise?", "What issues did...
GAO_GAO-13-255
{ "title": [ "Background", "ARS and NIFA Use Agency and Scientific Safeguards to Prevent Duplication of Research Projects in Similar Topic Areas, but Some Shortcomings Exist", "ARS and NIFA Generally Focus on the Same Broad Topic Areas", "The Agencies Rely on Various Safeguards to Prevent Duplication ...
{ "question": [ "What do the ARS and NIFA rely on to avoid duplication of research projects?", "What could increase the risk of research duplication?", "What structures do ARS and NIFA have to prevent duplication?", "How effective are these structures?", "What shortcomings did GAO identify within ...
CRS_R43254
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Significance for Congress", "Report Roadmap", "Definitions of Bullying and Cyber-bullying", "Estimates of the Prevalence, Predictive Factors for, and Consequences of Bullying", "Prevalence of Bullying", "Student Bullying Research on the Precursors for,...
{ "question": [ "What have many members of Congress become increasingly concerned about?", "What has this concern arisen in response to?", "What is Congress interested in ensuring?", "What steps has Congress taken to address these issues?", "How has the issue of bullying been addressed at state le...
GAO_GAO-17-302
{ "title": [ "Background", "Revenues Generated and Services Provided", "Concessions Process", "Legislative Authorities", "Challenges Highlighted in 2000 GAO Report", "Since 2000, Park Service Has Made Changes to the Concessions Program, but Some Oversight Issues Remain", "Park Service Has ...
{ "question": [ "What changes has the Park Service made to its concessions program since a 2000 GAO report was issued?", "What issues did GAO highlight in its 2000 report?", "How do those discoveries contrast with what GAO found in this review?", "What has Park Service headquarters increased its invol...
GAO_GAO-18-40
{ "title": [ "Background", "Drug Research, Discovery, Development, and Approval Process", "Patent and Market Exclusivity and Other Incentives for Drug Development", "Drug Distribution, Payment, and Pricing", "Consolidation and the Antitrust Review Process", "Drug Industry Profit Margins and Me...
{ "question": [ "How was sales revenue distributes among drug companies in 2014?", "How did concentration differ in narrower markets?", "What factors have driven structural changes in the industry?", "How did worldwide company R&D spending change from 2008 to 2014?", "How did federal spending chan...
GAO_GAO-13-72
{ "title": [ "Background", "Retirements, Retrofits, and New Construction May Result in a Smaller but Cleaner Coal- Fueled Electricity Generating Fleet", "Power Companies Are Planning to Retire a Significant Number of Older, Smaller, More Polluting Units", "Many Units May Be Retrofitted with Pollution ...
{ "question": [ "What changes to the electricity generating fleet can be made to improve its generating capacity and decrease pollution?", "What influenced these changes?", "What did GAO's analysis of retirement trends reveal?", "What did GAO's analysis of retrofit trends indicate?", "How will new...
CRS_RL32571
{ "title": [ "", "Overview", "Report Phases", "Phase I: Background on the U.S. Cotton Sector", "Domestic Program Support", "Export Credit Guarantee Programs", "Phase II: Brazil's WTO Dispute Settlement Case Against the U.S. Cotton Program", "Brazil's Six Principal Claims Against U.S. C...
{ "question": [ "What is the \"Brazil cotton case\"?", "How did the case begin?", "What changes did the US make to meet WTO recommendations?", "How did Brazil respond to these changes?", "What did a WTO arbitration panel rule in 2009 to resolve the cotton case?", "What is cross-retaliation?", ...
GAO_GAO-15-477
{ "title": [ "Background", "DOD Policies on Military Whistleblower Reprisal Are Governed by Statute", "DODIG and Service IGs Have Responsibility for Investigating Military Whistleblower Reprisal Complaints", "DOD’s Military Whistleblower Reprisal Investigative Process Focuses on Identifying Four Eleme...
{ "question": [ "What requirements did the DOD fail to meet in 2013?", "What steps did DOD take to address this after GAO's 2012 report?", "What data did GAO find indicating DOD's failure to address internal issues?", "What could DOD do to address these issues?", "What limits DODGI's ability to pr...
GAO_GAO-17-307
{ "title": [ "Background", "BLM’s Mission and Organizational Structure", "BLM’s Process for Overseeing Federal Oil and Gas Resource Development and Mitigating Environmental Impacts", "BLM’s Best Management Practices Policy", "Exceptions, Waivers, and Modifications to Lease and Permit Requirements"...
{ "question": [ "Why is the extent to which BLM approved requests for exceptions to oil and gas permit requirements unknown?", "How does this approval process work?", "What issues did GAO find regarding this process?", "What problems might these issues cause?", "What has BLM consistently involved ...
GAO_GAO-16-304
{ "title": [ "Background", "Clinical Trials Supported by NIH", "Overview of IOM Recommendations", "NIH Assessed the Applicability of the IOM Recommendations and Determined Not to Apply Them across ICs, but Developed Its Own Recommendations", "NIH Surveyed ICs to Assess the Applicability of the IOM...
{ "question": [ "What set of recommendations did NIH assess?", "How did NIH assess these recommendations?", "What did this assessment reveal?", "Why did NIH decide not to apply the recommendations across its ICs?", "How did NIH respond to this decision?", "What does NIH's OD responsible for?",...
CRS_R45529
{ "title": [ "", "Overview of Recent Tariff Actions", "What are tariffs and what are average U.S. tariff rates?", "What are the goals of the President's tariff actions and why are these actions of note?", "What are Section 201, Section 232, and Section 301?", "What tariff actions has the Admin...
{ "question": [ "What does the Constitution grant Congress sole authority over?", "How has Congress shared this authority with the President?", "How has President Trump made use of these authorities?", "Why have these tariffs been criticized?", "How has Congress addressed these tariffs?", "Wha...
GAO_GAO-15-127
{ "title": [ "Background", "FLC Has Not Fully Communicated with and Obtained Feedback from Potential Customers when Designing and Implementing Clearinghouse Initiatives", "FLC Has Not Measured the Performance of Its Clearinghouse Initiatives", "Conclusions", "Recommendations for Executive Action",...
{ "question": [ "What are the consequences of failing to obtain feedback when the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) try communicate with potential customers?", "What is an example of FLC failing to obtain feedback from potential customers?", "How has the development of a web-bas...
CRS_R41660
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Estimating Employment Effects of Trade Agreements", "Trade and Employment in the U.S. Economy", "Jobs Gained and Lost for the Economy as a Whole", "Benefits and Costs of International Trade", "Benefits of Trade", "Impact of Trade on the Composition of ...
{ "question": [ "What were negotiations finalized in early December 2010 about?", "Why was Congress so important in this event?", "Why does this agreement have important economic implications for both the U.S. and South Korea?", "How does the economic relationship between the U.S. and South Korea look...
CRS_R41466
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977", "Criticisms of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977", "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Amendments of 1988", "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Amendments of 1998", "Continuing Congressional Concerns", "Executive B...
{ "question": [ "How has the 1977 Act amended?", "What is the purpose of this standard?", "How did the amendments enhance this act?", "How is this act criticized?", "What were done to amend this act?", "What's one example of the amendments?", "What has the executive branch done for alleged...
CRS_RS22869
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Health Effects", "Human Exposure", "Current Federal BPA Regulation", "Events Surrounding the Current Controversy", "National Toxicology Program", "Food and Drug Administration", "State Government Actions", "Selected International Actions", ...
{ "question": [ "What is BPA used for?", "What is the downside of BPA products?", "What are the main source of public exposure?", "What is the effect of public exposure on human?", "What is the debate on the effect of BPA exposure on human health like?", "What is the main controversy on this ...
CRS_R40770
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "At What Point Does the Public Debt Become Unsustainable?", "Are Financial Markets Treating the Debt as Unsustainable?", "Evidence from Abroad", "Will Future Budget Deficits Remain at Unsustainable Levels Under Current Policy?", "Sustainability and Foreign ...
{ "question": [ "Why is increased deficits bad?", "Why is high deficit not sustainable in the long run?", "What is the long term impact of high deficit?", "Why is debt dangerous?", "Is high-debt-ratio commonly seen in advanced economies?", "What is an exception of high dept-to-GDP ratio in adv...
GAO_GAO-17-334
{ "title": [ "Background", "Resources to Address Injured Children’s Unique Needs", "Trauma Centers", "Trauma Systems: Continuum of Trauma Care Activities and the Federal Role", "Over Half of the Nation’s Children Live within 30 Miles of a High-Level Pediatric Trauma Center, and Studies Differ on H...
{ "question": [ "To what extent do children in the Uniter States have access to a pediatric trauma center?", "How does the lack of pediatric trauma centers affect injured children?", "What does GAO found out from reviewing studies?", "What did GAO suggest after review the studies and interviews with s...
CRS_RL32154
{ "title": [ "", "The Concept of Marine Protected Areas", "Definition", "Administrative Actions", "MPA Center Activities", "Other MPA Management and Coordination Efforts", "Potential Benefits, Issues, and Challenges", "Fisheries", "Challenges to MPA Siting and Design", "Marine ...
{ "question": [ "Why is limiting human activity in certain areas important?", "What is the purpose of proposed additional limits?", "How could this concept be implemented?", "Why is translating the MPA approach into nation program difficult?", "What makes creating a program difficult?", "What ...
CRS_R45168
{ "title": [ "", "Overview", "Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018", "Enduring vs. Overseas Contingency Operations Request", "Congressional Action", "Key Issues for Congress", "Department of State and Related Agency Funding6", "Overview", "Diplomatic Programs", "Personnel", "Diver...
{ "question": [ "What did the Trump Administration request on February 12, 2018?", "How will the requested budget distributed?", "How did the BBA regulate the funding?", "How does the FY2019 request impact SFOPS funding?", "How does this impact the state and related programs budget?", "How doe...
CRS_R41808
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Perspectives on the U.S. Role in International Climate Change Financial Assistance", "In Opposition", "In Support", "Cost Estimates for International Climate Change Activities", "Findings", "Methodology", "Mitigation Costs: Net Costs", "Mitigat...
{ "question": [ "What is the main debate in international financing for climate change?", "What has been one of the largest economic considerations?", "What will impact the future of emissions?", "What are concerns about the effect of these supposed shifts?", "What does this perspective mean about...
GAO_GAO-13-252
{ "title": [ "Background", "EPA’s Process for Assessing Sites under the Superfund Program", "Approaches Identified by EPA for Conducting Long- Term Cleanups at Sites Eligible for the NPL", "EPA Defers Oversight of a Majority of Sites Eligible for the NPL to Approaches Outside of the Superfund Program"...
{ "question": [ "What does the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) address?", "How has the EPA delegated the 2012 eligible sites?", "How has the EPA guided the OCA?", "How does this lack of guidance leave room for error?", "How has the EPA documented their deferral of sites to the OCA?", "Wh...
GAO_GAO-16-757
{ "title": [ "Background", "Selected Characteristics of U.S.-China Cooperative Education Institutions", "Role of the U.S. Government in U.S. Higher Education Arrangements in China", "Academic and Other Key Freedoms Related to U.S. Universities in China", "U.S. Universities Reported Receiving Suppo...
{ "question": [ "How did the chosen US universities receive support?", "What support was provided by China?", "How often did one of the universities receive federal funding?", "How did the US university programs in China perform?", "What freedoms do US universities usually protect?", "How ofte...
CRS_R45010
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Types of P3s", "P3 Implementation", "Benefits of P3s", "Limitations of P3s", "Federal Role in P3s", "Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Program", "Private Activity Bonds and Tax Issues", "State Infrastructure Banks...
{ "question": [ "What are Public-private partnerships (P3s) in transportation?", "What do these relationships provide?", "What are parts of P3s does this report focus on?", "Why have P3s emerged?", "How common are P3s?", "Why are P3s so limited?", "How have transportation P3s been used to ...
CRS_R44951
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Fundamentals of Regulatory Exclusivity", "Data Exclusivity Versus Market Exclusivity", "New Chemical Entities", "Clinical Investigations", "Orphan Drugs", "Biologics", "Pediatric Studies", "Qualified Infectious Disease Products", "Enantiome...
{ "question": [ "Why must the FDA enforce regulatory exclusivities?", "What general exclusivities exist?", "What specialized regulatory exclusivities exist?", "What would the Improving Access to Affordable Prescription Drugs Act do?", "What restriction applies to this rule?", "What limit would...
CRS_R45018
{ "title": [ "", "Status of Available Economic Studies", "Trends in Agricultural Trade Under NAFTA", "Assessing Potential Impacts of Higher MFN Tariffs", "Available Trade and Tariff Data", "Imposition of MFN Tariffs", "MFN Tariffs on Agricultural Imports to the United States", "MFN Tar...
{ "question": [ "What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?", "How is NAFTA currently changing?", "Why are there concerns about this renegotiation?", "What support exists for keeping NAFTA?", "How does this concern regard the larger US market?", "How is this concern regarded by C...
CRS_R42971
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "On Whom Is the Medical Device Excise Tax Imposed?", "What Is a \"Taxable Medical Device\"?", "Medical Devices Exempted from the Excise Tax", "The Retail Exemption", "The Retail Exemption's Safe Harbor Provisions", "Examples of How the Retail Exemption ...
{ "question": [ "How was the medical device excise tax regulated after creation?", "How did the new regulations compare to the timeline of the excise tax?", "What does this report cover?", "What was the purpose of the new regulations?", "How did the regulations apply to retail medical devices?", ...
CRS_R45214
{ "title": [ "", "FY2019 Consideration: Overview of Actions", "Status of FY2019 Appropriations: Dates and Documents", "Submission of FY2019 Budget Request on February 12, 2018", "Timing of the FY2019 Budget Submission Prior to the Enactment of FY2018 Funding: Implications", "Senate and House H...
{ "question": [ "What was printed on May 24, 2018?", "What is the \"minibus\" appropriations package to be considered?", "How did the rules proceed in the House?", "What parts of H.Res. 918 were accepted?", "How did H.R. 5895 pass overall in the House?", "What amount did the House pass?", ...
GAO_GAO-15-614
{ "title": [ "Background", "The CFATS Regulation and Process", "ISCD Has Taken Steps to Identify Chemical Facilities but Used Unverified Data to Categorize Thousands of Facilities", "ISCD Has Identified about 37,000 Chemical Facilities, but Plans Additional Identification Efforts", "ISCD Used Self...
{ "question": [ "What is a main function of the Office of Infrastructure Protection's Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD)?", "How is the ISCD information invalid?", "What is a toxic release threat?", "How are toxic release threats determined?", "How is this distance measured?", ...
CRS_R40713
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Open Government and Rulemaking", "The Rulemaking Process", "Importance of the Pre-NPRM Period", "The Unified Agenda as a Possible Vehicle for Pre-NPRM Transparency and Public Participation", "Agencies' Use of Unified Agenda Before Proposed Rules Varied", ...
{ "question": [ "What is the purpose of the initiative launched by the Obama Administration?", "What comments have been made?", "What is the potential role of the public in relation to the rules?", "How can public involvement take place?", "What is included in the Unified Agenda?", "How is the...
GAO_GAO-18-348
{ "title": [ "Background", "Key Aspects of Support for Families with Special Needs Vary Widely Across the Services, Leading to Potential Gaps in Assistance for Families with Special Needs", "Services Plans", "Resources", "Each Service Has Mechanisms to Monitor EFMP Assignment Coordination and Fami...
{ "question": [ "What program helps with providing support to families?", "What does the federal law require DOD to do?", "How has the Army and Navy responded?", "What is not there in the DOD's most recent reports?", "What have some services done?", "What is included in each Service?", "Wh...
GAO_GAO-17-496
{ "title": [ "Background", "Internal Control Material Weaknesses, Significant Deficiencies, and Other Challenges Pose Risks to Federal Spending Data Quality", "Financial Audits and Readiness Reviews Indicate That Agencies Face Data Quality Issues in Three Broad Areas", "Accounting and Financial Manage...
{ "question": [ "What can create risks to data quality?", "What have reports from financial audits and IG readiness reviews shown?", "How can these issues be categorized?", "What else has been reported on this topic?", "How might challenges with guidance impact data quality?", "How quickly do ...
CRS_R45304
{ "title": [ "", "DWSRF Program Overview", "DWSRF Allotments and Set-Asides", "EPA Reserves", "State Set-Asides and Requirements", "DWSRF Program Appropriations", "Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs", "Lead Service Lines", "Drinking Water Infrastructure Funding Issues", "Congr...
{ "question": [ "What does the state of the nation's water infrastructure tell us?", "How has Congress helped in boosting safer water access?", "How are states receiving aid under this program?", "What measure of funding was allocated for the program through FY2018?", "How does this compare to pri...
CRS_RS20210
{ "title": [ "", "The Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms Program: Recent Legislative Background", "Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act (TGAAA)", "Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act (TAAEA)", "Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act (TAARA)", "Overview of the TAA...
{ "question": [ "How might Congress's decision affect U.S. workers and firms?", "What do the Trade Adjustment Assistance programs do?", "How does trade liberalization affect workers and firms?", "What else does the TAA programs represent?", "What is included in the report about the TAAF program?",...
GAO_GAO-15-94
{ "title": [ "Background", "WIC Food Benefits", "WIC Program Oversight and Administration", "In Recent Years, USDA Has Further Aligned Formula Amounts with Current Nutrition Science and Infants’ Nutritional Needs", "The National Extent of Online Sales of WIC Infant Formula Is Unknown, but Some Par...
{ "question": [ "What has the USDA done for the WIC in the recent years?", "Why were these changes made?", "What specifically changed in terms of supporting breastfeeding?", "How else did the USDA regulations affect the formula authorization?", "What has been discovered by the information gathered...
GAO_GAO-18-602
{ "title": [ "Background", "The Financial Outlook of the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund Is Poor", "Many Companies and State Governments Have Cut Retiree Health Benefits to Control Costs", "A Small and Decreasing Percentage of Companies Continue to Offer Retiree Health Benefits", "Many...
{ "question": [ "How has the RHB fund changed in the past couple of years?", "How does the future trajectory look like for the fund?", "What can extend the depletion of the fund?", "How has the USPS responded?", "What is some evidence that shows how the fund is unaffordable?", "What may happen...
GAO_GAO-14-640
{ "title": [ "Background", "Roles and Responsibilities of Organizations Involved in Revocation of Personnel Security Clearances at DHS and DOD", "Guidance Governing Revocation of Personnel Security Clearances at DHS and DOD", "Personnel Security Clearance Revocation Process", "DHS and DOD Data Sys...
{ "question": [ "Why might the DOD's clearance eligibility totals be inaccurate?", "What data supports this conclusion?", "Why are these counts inconsistent?", "How do these DOD inconsistencies affect ODNI figures?", "What are the negative impacts of the overstated clearances?", "What issues s...
GAO_GAO-12-446
{ "title": [ "Background", "CHS Program Administration", "Methodology for Allocating CHS Funds", "Allocation of CHS Funds", "IHS’s Allocation of CHS Funds Has Varied across IHS Areas", "IHS’s Allocation of CHS Funds Varied Widely across IHS Areas in Fiscal Year 2010", "IHS’s Methods of All...
{ "question": [ "How did the IHS allocate CHS funds?", "What was the range of funding variations for areas?", "What was the range of per capita funding variations for areas?", "How has the allocation of this per capita funding changed FY2001 to FY2010?", "Why has allocation been maintained through...
GAO_GAO-12-262
{ "title": [ "Background", "Overlap Exists in the Design of Community Development Tax Expenditures", "Multiple Tax Expenditures Fund Community Development Activities", "Community Development Tax Expenditures Overlap in Design with Some Limits on Combining Multiple Tax and Spending Programs", "Limi...
{ "question": [ "What tax expenditures were available in FY2010?", "What did the tax expenditures support?", "How is tax expenditures funding designated for different areas?", "How is the overlap considered federally?", "When is overlap not allowed?", "What federal agencies are involved in tax...
GAO_GAO-13-175
{ "title": [ "Background", "Federal Border Security and Counternarcotics Efforts", "Federal, State, and Local Responsibilities", "The UCR Program", "Best Available Data Cannot Be Used to Make Insights about Spillover Crime but Show a General Decline in Reported Crime Rates in Counties with Suffici...
{ "question": [ "How can data on crime in border counties be accessed?", "What limits does the UCR have?", "How does the UCR fail to acknowledge Mexican spillover?", "How did the GAO regard crime in southwest border counties?", "What evidence backs up this analysis?", "What efforts assist trac...
GAO_GAO-17-445
{ "title": [ "Background", "Zika Virus: An Overview", "Zika Virus Surveillance Overview", "Diagnostic Tests for the Zika Virus", "Mosquito Control EffortsMosquito Control Efforts", "Federal Agency Roles in a Zika Virus Outbreak Response", "Challenges to Gathering New Information about Zika...
{ "question": [ "What happened due to the lack of knowledge of Zika virus?", "What types of challenges emerged from this?", "What more is now known about Zika virus?", "What is known about the history of Zika acquisition out of the US?", "What is known about the history of Zika acquisition in the ...
CRS_RS21698
{ "title": [ "", "Background", "Congressional Mandates for the Use of UAVs", "Benefits and Limitations of UAVs", "Benefits", "Limitations", "Other Concerns", "Issues for Congress", "Costs vs. Benefits", "UAV Effectiveness", "Lack of Information", "Coordination with USBP...
{ "question": [ "How has Congress supported change in border patrol?", "How does CBP currently patrol the border?", "What does this report examine?", "What is the risk assessment of UAVs?", "What surveillance benefit could the UAVs provide?", "What might outweigh the benefits of the UAVs?", ...
GAO_GAO-16-330
{ "title": [ "Background", "NRC and Agreement States Have Taken Several Steps to Better Control Radioactive Materials, but Not Requiring Tracking and Agency License Verification for Category 3 Quantities Leaves Vulnerabilities", "NRC Revised Guidance Provides Greater Scrutiny of Radioactive Materials Lice...
{ "question": [ "How does the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ensure performance quality?", "How has the NRC ensured licenses are only granted to proper parties?", "How has the NRC not met all safety needs?", "How are radioactive materials ranked?", "How has the NRC failed to ensure safety for...
CRS_R44337
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Key Considerations for Food and Agriculture", "Projected TPP Impacts on U.S. Agriculture", "Specific Market Access Commitments", "TPP: Beyond Market Access", "Rules of Origin", "Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures", "Agricultural Biotechnology", ...
{ "question": [ "What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?", "What is needed before the TPP can enter into force?", "What would result from the ratification of the TPP?", "How is the U.S. economy supported by agricultural exports?", "Why is the TPP beneficial for U.S. agriculture and food industry in...
CRS_RL32244
{ "title": [ "", "History", "Recent Efforts to Change Grazing Rules and Policies", "Overview of Regulatory Process", "Changes to Grazing Regulations", "Share Title to Range Improvements", "Acquire Private Water Rights", "Reduce Requirements for Public Involvement", "Modify the Admi...
{ "question": [ "What changes to regulations has the Bureau of Land Management made?", "What reasons did BLM provide for the 2006 changes?", "How did critics respond to the 2006 changes?", "What changes were made in 2006?", "What topics do the changes that were made cover?", "How was the defin...
GAO_GAO-19-242
{ "title": [ "Background", "Depots and Related Organizations", "Depot Maintenance Process and the Effects of Maintenance Delays on Readiness and Costs", "Depot Facilities and Equipment Are Key to Efficient and Effective Depot Maintenance", "Poor Condition of Facilities and Equipment Hinders Depot ...
{ "question": [ "What are the conditions of facilities at DOD depots?", "What factors have contributed to a decline in performance at these depots?", "What effects have resulted from the decline in performance of these depots?", "How can optimizing facilities and equipment improve maintenance efficien...
CRS_R45069
{ "title": [ "", "Background", "Legislative History", "Pharmacy Compounding", "FFDCA Section 503A", "Outsourcing Facility Compounding", "FFDCA Section 503B", "CQA Implementation and Possible Issues for Congress", "The Prescription Requirement and Compounding for Office-Use", "I...
{ "question": [ "What is the effect of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act?", "How are drug sales in the US restricted?", "Why are compounded drugs exempt from evaluation by FDA?", "Why did Congress pass the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act?", "What did the FDAMA do?", "What...
GAO_GAO-18-123
{ "title": [ "Background", "Most RAD Conversions Involved Construction and Tax Credits, but HUD’s Leveraging and Construction Metrics Are Limited", "Most RAD Conversions Involved Property Rehabilitation or New Construction, and Financing Often Included Tax Credits", "Most Conversions Involved Construc...
{ "question": [ "Why did the Department of Housing and Urban Development put procedures in place?", "What does RAD's authorizing legislation require HUD to do?", "How does HUD measure conversion outcomes?", "What issues does HUD have when measuring conversion outcomes?", "How does HUD track effect...
CRS_R43103
{ "title": [ "", "Background", "Bridge Conditions", "Future Bridge Funding Needs", "Federal and State Roles", "Bridge Inspection", "FHWA's Emergency Relief Program", "Issues for Congress", "Federal Pressure for State Bridge Spending", "Providing More Money for Bridges", "En...
{ "question": [ "What are the statuses of the 608,000 public road bridges in the United States?", "How serious is the problem of structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridges?", "What events have drawn attention to the condition of bridges on federal-aid highways?", "What might be the resul...
GAO_GAO-16-612
{ "title": [ "Background", "Space Systems and Acquisition Best Practices", "SLS Has Resolved Some Technical Issues and Matured Its Design, but Pressure Remains on Reduced Cost and Schedule Reserves", "SLS Program Has Made Progress Resolving Some Technical Issues and Maturing Design", "SLS Program’...
{ "question": [ "How has the SLS evolved since 2015?", "What does this pressure threaten?", "How has the program tried to mitigate pressure?", "What risks does the program face moving forward?", "What are these risks likely to do?", "What does the figure below show?", "What is the EGS prog...
CRS_RL33733
{ "title": [ "", "Background: The Intelligence Community's Most Authoritative Products", "Congress as a Consumer of NIEs", "The 2002 NIE on Iraqi WMD", "NIE on Trends in Global Terrorism, 2006", "NIE on Prospects for Iraq's Stability, January 2007", "NIE on Iranian Nuclear Intentions and C...
{ "question": [ "Who are NIEs of interest to?", "What do they represent?", "Are NIEs reliable?", "Where was this demonstrated?", "What is Congress's historical relationship with NIEs?", "Why doesn't Congress often rely on NIEs?", "What did the FY2007 Defense Authorization Act request?", ...
CRS_RL31160
{ "title": [ "", "Expedited Procedures of the Congressional Review Act", "Congressional Disapproval of Regulations", "Expedited or \"Fast Track\" Procedures", "Statutory Time Frames", "Initiation Period and Action Period", "Initiation Period", "Action Period", "Effect of Sine Die A...
{ "question": [ "What did the Congressional Review Act of 1996 establish?", "For whom does this Act provide an expedited procedure?", "How can the Senate use this procedure?", "What must be done to qualify for this procedure?", "What can occur pending action on a disapproval resolution?", "Wha...
GAO_GAO-13-645
{ "title": [ "Background", "DOD Has Processes in Place for Making All Basing Decisions, Including Those Related to 10 U.S.C. § 2687, and Uses Them Hundreds of Time Per Year", "DOD Has Processes in Place for Making Basing Decisions That Comply with 10 U.S.C. § 2687", "DOD Makes Hundreds of Basing Decis...
{ "question": [ "What do the DOD and military services have processes for?", "What do these processes provide?", "What actions can basing decisions include?", "How are each service's basing decision processes similar?", "What does each service's process require and include?", "What do these re...
CRS_R41150
{ "title": [ "", "Most Recent Developments", "Status", "Overview", "Title I: Army Corps of Engineers", "Background", "An Agency Budget Composed Mainly of Projects", "Supplemental and ARRA Appropriations", "Key Policy Issues—Corps of Engineers", "Construction Funding", "Inla...
{ "question": [ "How was the FY2011 Energy and Water Development bill processed in Congress?", "How was funding for the FY2011 Energy and Water Development bill provided?", "What Act was funding for this bill included in?", "What was released in February 2010?", "How was this bill processed by the...
CRS_R42540
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Generic Drugs", "What Are Generic Drugs?", "The GDUFA Proposal", "Proposed GDUFA Legislative Language", "Proposed GDUFA FDA-Industry Agreement", "Biosimilar Products", "What Are Biosimilars?", "The BSUFA Proposal", "Proposed BSUFA Legislati...
{ "question": [ "What provisions are included in S.3187 and H.R 5651?", "What are the GDUFA and BSUFA titles inspired by?", "Why is the leadership of both the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce intent on passing the legislation before ...
CRS_R44714
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Cuban Migration Policy", "Key Legislation and International Agreements", "Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966", "Migration Agreements of 1994 and 1995", "Wet Foot/Dry Foot Policy", "Unauthorized Migration Statistics", "Other Immigration Pathways", "St...
{ "question": [ "What shapes the U.S. policy on Cuban migration?", "What is the \"wet foot/dry foot\" policy?", "What happens to \"dry foot\" Cubans?", "How can Cubans gain permanent admission to the United States?", "What can U.S. relatives do to give Cubans permanent admission?", "How can Cu...
CRS_98-505
{ "title": [ "", "Background and History", "The Emergency Concept", "Law and Practice", "Congressional Concerns", "The National Emergencies Act", "Emergency Declarations in Effect and Emergency Declarations No Longer in Effect", "Concluding Remarks" ], "paragraphs": [ "F ederal...
{ "question": [ "In which situations can the President use his or her special powers?", "How are these powers granted to the President?", "To what extent has Congress exercised this ability to grant powers?", "What protections does the Constitution have regarding the emergency powers of the President?...
CRS_RL34093
{ "title": [ "", "Developments from March 2010-June 2010", "The KIC Survives Inter-Korean Tensions in 2010", "The KIC and Inter-Korean Relations", "Implications for U.S. Interests", "The Development of the Kaesong Industrial Complex", "Issues Related to the Kaesong Industrial Complex", ...
{ "question": [ "What is the purpose of the report?", "What is the KIC?", "How successful are South Korean companies based in Kaesong?", "What products do these companies produce?", "What effect have rising tensions had on the Kaesong industrial complex?", "What events happened in 2010 that co...
GAO_GAO-17-17
{ "title": [ "Background", "Inventory Compilation Requirements", "Inventory Review and Use Requirements", "Prior GAO Work", "Components’ Reporting of Inventory Review Elements Continued to Improve, but Limitations with the Resulting Information Provided in Certification Letters Persist", "Cert...
{ "question": [ "What progress have military departments made to use the inventory to inform workforce planning?", "How has the DOD followed a recommendation made by GAO in 2014?", "In which areas does DOD face continued delays?", "Why did Congress require DOD to review an annual inventory of its cont...
CRS_RL33331
{ "title": [ "", "Context, Caveats, and Methodology", "Post-World War II Assistance to Germany", "Post-World War II Assistance to Japan", "Current U.S. Assistance to Iraq", "Comparative Overview" ], "paragraphs": [ "Some Members of the 111 th Congress may question whether U.S. assistan...
{ "question": [ "What does the report compare?", "How was the U.S. aid sent to Iraq allocated?", "How does the proportion of Iraqi aid spent on reconstruction compare to aid spent on Germany and Japan?", "How does the total amount of aid U.S. provided to Iraq compare to Germany and Japan?", "What ...
CRS_R41383
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Chronology of Events: River of Grass Acquisition", "Analysis of Potential Consequences", "Potential Consequences of Land Purchase", "Potential Effect on Federal/State CERP Projects", "Potential Effect on Phosphorus Reduction", "Issues for Congress", ...
{ "question": [ "What is the River of Grass acquisition?", "Why does the state support the River of Grass acquisition?", "How has the original proposal been modified?", "What is the most recent revision of the original proposal?", "What questions have been raised regarding the proposed acquisition...
GAO_GAO-14-39
{ "title": [ "Background", "The FEHBP", "Premiums and Financing", "OPM’s Offices with Responsibilities Involving Fraud and Abuse within the FEHBP", "OPM’s Requirements and Guidance for FEHBP Carriers’ Fraud and Abuse Programs", "OPM’s Contracting Office Monitors Compliance with Fraud and Abuse...
{ "question": [ "What is the purpose of the Office of Personnel Management?", "What are the requirements that FEHBP carriers must comply by?", "What guidance does OPM give to carriers?", "Why do program outcomes not provide complete information about program effectiveness?", "What did OPM contract...
GAO_GAO-16-530
{ "title": [ "Background", "EPA Awards Different Categories of Grants", "Multiple Federal and EPA Requirements and Guidelines Apply to Monitoring Grant and Grant Program Results", "EPA Monitors Performance Reports and Data to Ensure Grants Achieve Results, but Certain Practices Hinder EPA’s Ability to...
{ "question": [ "How does the EPA classify the grants it awards?", "Why did the EPA award formula grants to states?", "How were the categorical grants EPA awarded utilized?", "How does EPA determine the amount of funding each discretionary grant receives?", "What activities did the EPA award discr...
GAO_GAO-12-320
{ "title": [ "Background", "BOP Population and Institutions", "BOP Discretionary Authorities That Can Reduce a Prisoner’s Period of Incarceration or Time in BOP Custody", "BOP’s Use of Authorities That Can Reduce a Federal Prisoner’s Period of Incarceration Varies", "Eligible Prisoners Can Partici...
{ "question": [ "What is BOP responsible for?", "What are results of reducing the amount of time inmates remain in prison?", "What was GAO asked to address?", "How did GAO get this information?" ], "summary": [ "The Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for the...
GAO_GAO-17-799
{ "title": [ "Background", "TRIO Modernization Project", "Best Practices for Conducting Analysis of Alternatives and Managing Risks", "DHS Did Not Always Follow Best Practices for Analyzing Alternatives for TRIO Components’ Choice of Modernized Financial Management System", "DNDO Substantially, an...
{ "question": [ "What is the purpose of the TRIO project?", "What did GAO find about DNDO's AA?", "What did GAO find about Coast Guard's and TSA's AAs?", "What is the best alternative for the TRIO components based on AAs?", "How did DHS not follow best practices for managing project risks?", "...
GAO_GAO-13-240
{ "title": [ "Background", "Severely Underfunded Plans Have Cut Benefits to Current Employees and Increased Employer Contributions, but Financial Outlook for Some Plans Remains Bleak", "Critical Status Plans Have Established a Range of Contribution Increases and Benefit Cuts", "Plan Officials Indicate...
{ "question": [ "What steps have distressed multiemployer plans taken?", "What specifically have these plans done?", "How can contribution increases be harmful?", "How can reductions in benefits be harmful?", "What is the problem with plan insolvencies?", "How has PBGC's financial assistance t...
CRS_R41208
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction: An Outdated System", "The Next Generation: NG9-1-1", "Summary of 911 Legislation and Policy", "The 911 Act and Federal Communications Commission Regulations", "FCC Study: The Hatfield Report", "The ENHANCE 911 Act of 2004", "The NET 911 Improvement Act o...
{ "question": [ "What is today's 911 system built on?", "What has been the problem with efforts to improve the 911 technology?", "What do 911 callers wrongly assume?", "What is the new technology that will be used with 911?", "How will this new technology work?", "What is the general purpose o...
GAO_GAO-13-542
{ "title": [ "Background", "Other Mortgage Market Participants", "Foreclosure Process", "REO Disposition Process", "REO Program Structures and Use of Contractors", "The Housing Crisis Increased the Volume of REO Properties", "Changes to Its Disposition Practices Could Help FHA Improve Resu...
{ "question": [ "How did FHA's performance in selling REO fare?", "How specifically was FHA's performance less successful than government-sponsored enterprises?", "After controlling for differences, how specifically was FHA's performance less successful than government-sponsored enterprises?", "How di...
CRS_RL31381
{ "title": [ "", "Overview", "Introduction", "Congressional Activity", "Policy Tensions", "Arguments that Temporary Migration is Profitable", "Arguments that Temporary Migration is Costly", "Arguments that Temporary Migration Strengthens the United States", "Arguments that Temporar...
{ "question": [ "What are nonimmigrants?", "What groups of people do nonimmigrants consist of?", "What visa categories are there for nonimmigrants?", "How has the issuing of nonimmigrant visas changed overtime?", "What was the largest group of nonimmigrant visas in FY2009?", "What other groups...
GAO_GAO-13-4
{ "title": [ "Background", "History of Cost Growth and Schedule Delays", "Current JWST Organization", "Revised JWST Cost Estimate Is Not Fully Consistent with Best Practices for Reliable and Credible Estimates and the Integrated Master Schedule Is Not Finalized", "Complete Schedule Not Finalized; ...
{ "question": [ "What does the current cost estimate of JWST reflect?", "How specifically did the current cost estimate use best practices?", "What was the cost estimate lacking?", "How was the estimate's accuracy and confidence level lessened?", "Why was the credibility of the estimate lessened?"...
CRS_R43127
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)", "Regulating Existing Sources Under Section 111", "EPA's NSPS Proposals for EGU Greenhouse Gas Emissions", "Emission Limits9", "EPA's Cost-Benefit Analysis", "Questions Regarding the Re-proposed Rule", "Has ...
{ "question": [ "What were President Obama's initiatives on climate change focused on?", "How will these initiatives be achieved?", "What are EGUs?", "What did the reproposed standards set?", "Why were new standards proposed?", "Why does the EPA Administrator have a great deal of flexibility w...
CRS_R45275
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Budgetary Impact1", "Baseline", "Scores", "Title-by-Title Summary", "Commodities8", "Conservation11", "Working Lands Programs", "Land Retirement and Easement Programs", "Other Conservation Programs", "Trade13", "Nutrition15", "C...
{ "question": [ "What is the relationship between the CBO score and the programs in both bills with mandatory spending?", "How do these cost projections compare with CBO's baseline scenarios?", "What plans exist for extending these programs?", "What do these bills achieve?", "What is the relations...
GAO_GAO-13-797
{ "title": [ "Background", "Task Force Agencies Use the Action Plan and Agreements among Themselves and with Nonfederal Stakeholders to Implement the GLRI", "Task Force Agencies Use the Action Plan to Implement the GLRI", "Task Force Agencies Use Interagency Process to Identify and Fund GLRI Work", ...
{ "question": [ "What is the relationship between the Task Force agencies and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative?", "What does the Action Plan include?", "What does each focus area include?", "For what does EPA use the Action Plan's measures?", "How successful is this assessment?", "What i...
GAO_GAO-12-308
{ "title": [ "Background", "State and Local Governments Use ITS in Various Ways to Manage Congestion, and Some New Uses of ITS Are Promising", "State and Local Governments’ ITS Deployment", "State and Local Governments Face a Number of Challenges in Using ITS Technologies", "Strategic Planning Cha...
{ "question": [ "How do governments use ITS technologies?", "What is one example of this?", "What did GAO find in their interviewing of experts?", "What is one example of this?", "What is one factor that would complicate this?", "What challenges do governments face in using ITS technologies?",...
GAO_GAO-14-249
{ "title": [ "Background", "Petroleum Refining Industry", "Key Regulations Affecting the Domestic Refining Industry", "Stationary Source GHG Requirements", "Market Changes and Key Environmental Regulations Likely Affected the Refining Industry", "Increased Crude Oil Production Has Lowered Crud...
{ "question": [ "What regulations have contributed to declining petroleum-based fuel consumption?", "How have these standards affected refiners?", "What caused these increased costs?", "What is the current status of EPA's standards?", "What are the consequences of a late RFS?", "What is the re...
GAO_GAO-16-432
{ "title": [ "Background", "FDA Lacks the Measurable Goals and Funding Information Necessary to Conduct Strategic Planning for Regulatory Science Priorities", "FDA Lacks Measurable Goals to Assess Progress Meeting Its Regulatory Science Priorities", "FDA Lacks Information Necessary to Track Funding an...
{ "question": [ "How does the FDA assess its progress in advancing regulatory science?", "What has characterized its most recent planning documents?", "Why is it important to include measurable goals?", "What funding information does FDA collect?", "What is the effect of this lack of information?"...
CRS_R41306
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Part I: United States Trade Obligations Under International Law", "The Uruguay Round, Marrakesh Agreement, and World Trade Organization", "The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994", "The Nondiscrimination Provisions of the GATT", "Article XX:...
{ "question": [ "What guides the United States' trade obligations?", "How do domestic trade laws influence these obligations?", "What does this report address?", "What is the relationship between trade agreements and trade barriers?", "What is the difference between tariff and non-tariff barriers?...
CRS_R45019
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Expiration of Certain NFIP Authorities", "Legislation in the 115th Congress", "NFIP Premiums and Surcharges", "Pre-FIRM Subsidy", "Newly Mapped Subsidy", "Grandfathering", "Proposed Changes to Premiums and Surcharges in H.R. 2874", "Affordabili...
{ "question": [ "Why is February 8, 2018 important?", "How was the National Flood Insurance Program established?", "What will happen unless the bill is reauthorized or amended by Congress?", "What act did the House pass in November, 2017?", "What would H.R. 2874 do?", "What aspects of the bill...
GAO_GAO-13-622
{ "title": [ "Background", "Bankruptcy Proceedings", "Financial Companies and the Bankruptcy Code", "Current Role of Financial Regulators in Bankruptcy Proceedings", "Current Safe-Harbor Treatment for Financial Contracts under the Code", "Experts Agreed That Changing Regulatory Involvement May...
{ "question": [ "Why have experts proposed giving financial regulators a greater role in financial company bankruptcies?", "What opinions do experts have on such proposals?", "What did experts note about difficulties surrounding a proposal to require notification before bankruptcies?", "What other alt...
CRS_R45387
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Foreign Relations", "Politics", "The Economy", "Terrorism and Foreign Fighters", "Western Sahara", "U.S. Relations", "U.S. Foreign Aid", "Foreign Aid Legislation Regarding Western Sahara" ], "paragraphs": [ "", "Successive U.S. Admi...
{ "question": [ "What system of government does Morocco use?", "What liberalizing steps has King Mohammed VI taken?", "How has the monarchy retained its popular legitimacy and stability?", "What recent events have challenged the stability of the monarchy?", "Why is Morocco an important partner to ...
GAO_GAO-17-538
{ "title": [ "Background", "History of the Lifeline Program", "USF Contributions and Lifeline Disbursements", "Lifeline Program Operations", "FCC Has Not Evaluated Lifeline’s Performance in Meeting Program Goals but Has Taken Recent Steps toward Evaluation", "FCC Has Not Evaluated Lifeline’s P...
{ "question": [ "How has the FCC evaluated the Lifeline program's performance?", "How effective has Lifeline been in increasing subscribership among low-income households?", "Why is an evaluation necessary?", "What steps to enhance controls over finances and subscriber enrollment have FCC and USAC tak...
GAO_GAO-13-94
{ "title": [ "Background", "OMB’s Roles and Responsibilities for Overseeing IT Investments", "GAO Has Previously Recommended Improvements in the Management of Geospatial Information and OMB Guidance", "Implementing Established Policies Is Not a Federal Priority, Resulting in Duplicative Investments", ...
{ "question": [ "Have government committees and federal departments and agencies implemented the policies and procedures established by the President and the OMB?", "What has the Federal Geographic Data Committee developed and endorsed?", "What does the FGDC have yet to address?", "How much progress h...