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GAO_GAO-14-696T
{ "title": [ "Background", "Types of Non-VA Medical Care", "Preauthorization Process for Non-VA Medical Care", "Criteria for VA Coverage of Emergency Care from Non-VA Providers", "Process for Paying Non- VA Medical Care Claims", "Notifying Veterans and Non-VA Providers of Denials of Claims for...
{ "question": [ "What were GAO's findings on the Non-VA Medical Care Program?", "How does this lack of data impact VA?", "How does a lack of data impact VA's ability to assess the cost-effectiveness of its program?", "How is this inability to assess cost-effectiveness detrimental to VA?", "What we...
GAO_GAO-13-535
{ "title": [ "Background", "DOD’s Methods for Calculating Pre-BRAC Estimates of Excess Capacity Have Limitations", "DOD’s Method for Estimating Excess Capacity in 1998 and 2004", "The Methods DOD Used to Estimate Excess Capacity in 1998 and 2004 Have Limitations", "DOD’s Statements about Remaining...
{ "question": [ "What DOD methods have limitations?", "How was this similar to DOD's excess capacity analyses from 1998 to 2004?", "How is this process organized?", "What did the DOD recognize in both its 1998 and 2004 reports?", "What limitation's did DOD's report recognize?", "How would calc...
GAO_GAO-15-526
{ "title": [ "Background", "History of Restoration Activities", "Organization of GLRI Projects, Reports, and Data", "$1.68 Billion Was Made Available for the GLRI in Fiscal Years 2010 through 2014, with $1.15 Billion Expended on 2,123 Projects as of January 2015", "EPA Has Allocated Almost All of ...
{ "question": [ "What was the status of federal funds made available for the GLRI for 2010 through 2014?", "How were these funds spent?", "What can agencies do after funds are no longer available for obligation?", "How has the Task Force's funding identification process evolved?", "How was this de...
GAO_GAO-19-20
{ "title": [ "Background", "The Corps Allocates Funds for Operations and Maintenance Based on Economic Benefits and Risk but Lacks a Method of Tracking Deferred Maintenance for Inland Waterways", "The Corps Allocates Funds for Operations and Maintenance Projects Based on Economic Benefit and Risk", "L...
{ "question": [ "How does the Corps allocate its appropriated funding?", "What information does the Corps lack for this method?", "What challenges did the Corps and ASA-CW officials identify?", "How does a lack of an accurate measure of deferred maintenance hinder the Corps?", "What was GAO asked ...
CRS_R45025
{ "title": [ "", "Overview", "Developments in 2017", "Progress in the Fight against the Islamic State", "Confrontation over Kurdish Referendum and Disputed Territories", "Iran and Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces", "U.S. Foreign Aid and Security Assistance", "Political and Economic P...
{ "question": [ "What are the 1115th Congress and the Trump Administration considering in regards to engagement with Iran?", "What challenges does Iraq face?", "What is being determined in regards to the PMF?", "What did the Kurdistan Regional Government hold in September 2017?", "What task do Ira...
GAO_GAO-13-303
{ "title": [ "Background", "Ex-Im’s Mission, Financing Products, and Risks", "Budgetary Treatment of Federal Credit Programs", "Ex-Im’s Business Grew Substantially in Recent Years Due to Market Conditions and Other Factors", "Ex-Im Uses Modeling to Estimate Subsidy Costs and Reserves, and Accounts...
{ "question": [ "What do Ex-Im's processes account for?", "How does Ex-Im make calculations?", "What factors does Ex-Im account for in its calculations?", "How might Ex-Im's model be improved?", "What are Ex-Im's fees guided by?", "What did Ex-Im report as of December 2012?", "What has Ex-...
CRS_R43785
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "A Brief Overview of Marijuana Production", "Why a Federal Excise Tax on Marijuana?", "Taxes to Reflect External Costs", "Discouraging Use, Including Among Youth", "Capturing the Current Differential Between Cost and Price", "Funding Marijuana Research ...
{ "question": [ "What has the combination of state policy and general public opinion favoring the legalizing of marijuana led to?", "How would the Marijuana Tax Equity Act of 2013 tax marijuana?", "How would the National Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy Act of 2013 tax marijuana?", "What does th...
GAO_GAO-15-641
{ "title": [ "Background", "The Field Study Followed Several Accepted Research Standards, but Did Not Report Its Limitations or Make Conclusions That Were Fully Linked to the Results", "FMCSA Anticipated Several Effects of the 2011 Hours of Service Rule, and While Available Data Provide Some Insight, Data...
{ "question": [ "What did GAO find regarding the FMSCA's January 2014 study?", "How might this failure to meet research standards undermine the study's results?", "What did FMSCA fail to adopt guidance on?", "What issues might this failure have caused?", "What assumptions did FMSCA make int he reg...
GAO_GAO-13-318
{ "title": [ "Background", "Reporting Requirements for Offshore Accounts", "Terms of IRS’s Offshore Programs", "Almost All 2009 OVDP Participants Received the Maximum Offshore Penalty, Almost Half Had Accounts in Switzerland, and About Half of the Revenue Collected Came from a Small Percentage of High...
{ "question": [ "What have the IRS's four offshore programs resulted in as of December 2012?", "How do these offshore programs attract taxpayers?", "How do these offshore programs penalize the majority of their participants?", "What was the median account balance from the 2009 OVDP?", "How does th...
CRS_RL31025
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Legislative History Overview", "What Are Fatherhood Initiatives?", "Research and Evaluation", "Parents' Fair Share Demonstration Project", "Partners for Fragile Families Demonstration", "Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study", "Office of Child...
{ "question": [ "How has the government provided funding for fatherhood programs?", "How was the need for funding for such programs acknowledged by the Bush Administration?", "How did the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 provide funding for such programs?", "How has this stream of funding been maintained...
GAO_GAO-14-388
{ "title": [ "Background", "Treasury Continues to Make Progress in Winding Down the CPP Program", "Impact of Increasing Dividend or Interest Rate on CPP Securities Varies", "Remaining Capital Purchase Program Investment Concentrated in a Few Institutions", "Treasury Continues to Utilize Auctions a...
{ "question": [ "What progress has the Treasury made in winding down the CPP?", "How did most institutions exit the CPP?", "How does the Treasury deal with shares that have not been repurchased?", "How are these outstanding investments distributed amongst the remaining institutions?", "How profita...
GAO_GAO-15-366
{ "title": [ "Background", "Air Force Assessed the Feasibility of GEO Satellites 5 and 6 Technology Insertion, but Earlier Assessment and Investment in Technology Development and Planning Could Have Improved the Effort", "The Air Force Met Congressional Requirements to Assess New Focal Plane Technology fo...
{ "question": [ "Why is the program at risk for challenges in the future?", "According to GAO and the MITRE Corporation, why is technology planning an important practice?", "How does this differ from the practices technology insertion decisions follow?", "How are current efforts to develop new technol...
GAO_GAO-15-52
{ "title": [ "Background", "Definition of a Consumer Product", "Overview of GAO’s Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication Work", "Multiple Agencies Oversee Various Aspects of Consumer Product Safety", "Eight Agencies Have Direct Oversight Responsibility for Consumer Product Safety", "At Least ...
{ "question": [ "How is consumer product safety regulated across agencies?", "What are the benefits and downsides of involving multiple agencies to regulate consumer product safety?", "How can cooperation between multiple agencies be difficult?", "Why is the marking of toy and imitation firearms by NI...
CRS_RL34608
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Current Tax Benefits", "Charitable Contributions", "Tax Exemption of Earnings", "Expanding Benefits for Charitable Contributions and Organizations", "Provisions Considered But Not Adopted", "Deduction for Non-Itemizers", "Reducing the Foundation In...
{ "question": [ "How were tax benefits valued prior to the financial crises?", "How did the value of tax benefits come to be around $100 billion per year?", "What revenue losses did the federal government experience?", "What are returns on endowments likely to do in the future?", "How did the Amer...
GAO_GAO-15-118
{ "title": [ "Background", "Administrative Costs", "Guidance on Cost Principles", "Selected Agencies and Programs", "Agencies Reviewed Have Mechanisms in Place to Collect Data on Federal Grant Administrative Costs, but These Data May Not Reflect Actual Cost of Administration", "Variations in A...
{ "question": [ "How did the reviewed grant programs capture administrative costs charged to them?", "What are the differences in how grant programs track administrative costs?", "How do reported costs differ from actual costs reported to the federal government?", "What did GAO find that supports the ...
CRS_RL30857
{ "title": [ "", "Regular and Special Elections of the Speaker", "Size of the House and Majority Required to Elect", "Third and Additional Candidates" ], "paragraphs": [ "", "The traditional practice of the House is to elect a Speaker by roll call vote upon first convening after a general ...
{ "question": [ "What does each new House do when it first convenes?", "Who is nominated to become a Speaker?", "How does the voting process work to elect a Speaker?", "What happened in the time period from 1913 through 1943?", "What candidates did Members vote for during this time period?", "...
CRS_RL34062
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "DOD Aviation Fuel Use", "Studies on DOD Fuel Use", "2001 Defense Science Board Task Force", "JASON Report", "DOD Energy Security Task Force", "LMI Study", "Reducing the Use of Petroleum-Based Aviation Fuel", "Increasing Alternative Fuel Use", ...
{ "question": [ "Why should DOD reduce their use of and reliance on fossil fuel?", "What is the biggest opportunity for DOD to reduce their use of fossil fuel?", "What is the purpose of the report?", "How can the DOD's overall reliance on fossil fuel be reduced?", "How does DOD use fossil fuels?",...
CRS_R43732
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Protections for Retirees: Background Factors", "Bankruptcy", "Chapter 7", "Chapter 11", "11 U.S.C. Section 1113: Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements", "11 U.S.C. Section 1114: Payment of Insurance Benefits to Retired Employees", "Type of ...
{ "question": [ "What is chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization?", "What do these protections include?", "How might this protection affect employees?", "What are legacy costs?", "What might happen to pension trusts if the employer enters bankruptcy?", "What is the role of the Pension Benefit Gua...
CRS_R44944
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "What is Military Sexual Assault?", "A Framework for Congressional Oversight", "DOD Management and Accountability", "DOD Organization, Policy, and Planning", "SAPRO Structure, Functions and Roles", "Strategic Planning and Evaluation", "Assessment: D...
{ "question": [ "What power does Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution give Congress?", "How does Congress wield this power?", "What has Congress determined regarding sexual assault?", "How recent is the concern regarding sexual violence?", "What do surveys suggest about victims of sexual ...
GAO_GAO-16-495
{ "title": [ "Background", "FTA Has Made Progress Implementing Most of the Key Required Changes in the Capital Investment Grant Program", "Issuing Rules for Evaluating and Rating Projects", "Issuing Guidance for Evaluating and Rating Projects", "Establishing an Evaluation and Rating Process for Pr...
{ "question": [ "What does FTA's Capital Investment Grant program provide funds for each year?", "How do project sponsors apply for funding through this program?", "How was the Capital Investment Grant program revised in 2012?", "What did MAP-21 require GAO to do?", "What does this report discuss?...
GAO_GAO-17-243
{ "title": [ "Background", "Overview of the Federal Reserve System", "Federal Reserve Income, Surplus Account, and Remittances to Treasury", "Stock Purchase Requirement for Member Banks and Membership Benefits", "Reserve Bank Boards of Directors", "Central Bank Independence", "Rationales f...
{ "question": [ "How did capping the surplus amount affect Federal Reserve operations?", "What must Reserve Banks do before remitting excess funds to the Treasury?", "What concerns have been raised regarding transfers to the Treasury's General Fund under the FAST Act?", "How have dividend payment tren...
CRS_R42558
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Background", "DOD's Use of Fuels", "In General", "The Services", "Air Force", "Navy and Marine Corps", "Army", "Operational Energy vs. Installation Energy", "How DOD Buys Fuels", "Defense Logistics Agency-Energy (DLA-E)", "Fully Bur...
{ "question": [ "What role does DOD play in the consumption of petroleum?", "How significant are DOD's energy costs to its overall budget?", "How have DOD's fuel costs changed over the last decade?", "What is DOD's largest source of energy?", "What organization within the DOD consumes the most fue...
GAO_GAO-13-503
{ "title": [ "Background", "FSA Provides Benefits through Commodity and Crop Disaster Assistance Programs", "NRCS Administers Conservation Programs", "RMA Administers Subsidized Crop Insurance", "FSA Has Established Procedures for Preventing Improper Payments to the Deceased, but Some Supporting I...
{ "question": [ "What has the FSA established procedures for since 2007?", "What have these procedures enabled FSA to do?", "What did GAO find in its review of a sample of payments to deceased individuals?", "How could a greater degree of monitoring benefit the FSA?", "What does the NRCS lack suff...
GAO_GAO-15-55
{ "title": [ "Background", "Care for Veterans with MDD", "VA Suicide Prevention Efforts", "VA Suicide Data", "VA Data Show That 10 Percent of Veterans Had MDD and Most Were Prescribed at Least One Antidepressant, but VA Data May Underestimate MDD Prevalence", "VA Data Show About 10 Percent of ...
{ "question": [ "What does GAO's analysis of VA data for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 show?", "What is MDD?", "What might GAO's discovery of diagnostic coding discrepancies indicate?", "How can MDD be treated?", "How does GAO's analysis support this claim?", "How did treatment for veterans w...
GAO_GAO-15-410
{ "title": [ "Background", "State Bureaus Involved in Embassy Construction", "On-Compound Construction", "Off-Compound Construction", "Total Kabul Infrastructure Investments", "Contract Costs Have Risen and Schedule Has Been Extended Following State’s Incomplete Risk Assessment; Further Cost I...
{ "question": [ "Why have the cost and expected time increased for the Kabul embassy construction project?", "What data did GAO collect to support this?", "What caused such increases in cost and schedule?", "What does this suggest about the efficiency of State's future projects?", "What has State ...
GAO_GAO-13-644
{ "title": [ "Background", "The TPCC Does Not Report or Collect Information on How Resources Align with Priorities", "National Export Strategies Outline Priorities, but Do Not Identify Associated Resources", "The Budget Data the TPCC Collects Are Not Useful for Assessing Resource Allocations", "Th...
{ "question": [ "What does the TPCC fail to compile information on?", "What does this result in?", "What issues has GAO previously reported regarding TPCC operations?", "What steps did the TPCC take to amend the issues GAO highlighted?", "How has this been demonstrated by recent strategies?", ...
GAO_GAO-18-72
{ "title": [ "Background", "Selected Agencies’ Assessment Methodologies Do Not Fully Align with the ISC’s Risk Management Standard", "Selected Agencies Reported Facing Challenges in Conducting Security Assessments and Monitoring Results", "Agencies Have Not Conducted Timely Security Assessments", ...
{ "question": [ "What did GAO's review of the CBP, FAA, ARS, and the Forest Service reveal?", "What does the ISC Standard require?", "How are the four agencies' methodologies similar?", "How do the four agencies' methodologies differ?", "What steps are agencies taking to improve their methodologie...
GAO_GAO-16-47
{ "title": [ "Background", "FIAR Guidance", "Navy FBWT Audit Readiness Strategy, Milestones, and Events", "Navy Did Not Fully Implement Certain FBWT FIP Tasks in Accordance with the FIAR Guidance", "Process Analysis", "Other Audit Readiness Issues within the Navy’s FBWT Process Analysis", ...
{ "question": [ "In what way did the Navy's analysis fail to document its FBWT process?", "Why is FBWT process analysis crucial for naval transactions?", "What are the dangers of proceeding without a complete FBWT process analysis?", "In what ways did the Navy fail to document information regarding th...
GAO_GAO-16-485
{ "title": [ "Background", "Definition and Types of FGM/C", "Causes and Consequences of FGM/C", "Prevalence of FGM/C", "International Response to FGM/C", "State and USAID Strategies and Policies Related to FGM/C", "U.S. and UN Studies Have Identified Factors Contributing to the Persistence...
{ "question": [ "What have the US and UN determined regarding female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)?", "Why does FGM/C remain common?", "What legal steps have been taken to prevent FGM/C?", "Beyond legal actions, what steps have been taken to address FGM/C?", "To what extent has the US attempt...
CRS_RL33186
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Economic Impact of a Declining Current Account Deficit", "The Recent Decline in the CA Deficit and the Financial Crisis", "Historical Parallels", "A Review of Five Estimates", "Conclusion" ], "paragraphs": [ "", "America's current account (CA) ...
{ "question": [ "How did the US's current account deficit trend between 1991 and 2009?", "How is the CA deficit financed?", "What are the problems with financing the CA deficit with foreign capital?", "What do economists predict will happen with America's CA deficit?", "Why is the 2008 financial c...
GAO_GAO-12-175
{ "title": [ "Background", "DOD Strategy to Lower Costs Also Reduced Synergy among Systems", "Airborne Electronic Attack Acquisition Strategy Has Evolved", "Acquisitions May Not Produce Sufficient Results", "Investments in New Airborne Electronic Attack Systems Have Yielded Mixed Results to Date",...
{ "question": [ "What does the Department of Defense's DOD strategy for meeting airborne electronic attack requirements entail?", "What has driven DOD priorities in the past decade?", "What has been the effect of tightened military budgets?", "How has the DOD responded to their budget limitations?", ...
CRS_R45283
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Title I: General Provisions", "Definitions—Section 101 (50 U.S.C. § 3911).", "Jurisdiction and applicability of act—Section 102 (50 U.S.C. § 3912).", "Protection of persons secondarily liable—Section 103 (50 U.S.C. § 3913).", "Extension of protections to c...
{ "question": [ "How does Congress respond to the needs of compromised servicemembers?", "What is the purpose of the SCRA?", "How does the SCRA protect servicemembers?", "What are the benefits and limitations of the SCRA's protection of servicemembers?", "What are the contingencies of the SCRA's p...
GAO_GAO-18-513
{ "title": [ "DOD Has Established 10 Cross-Functional Teams That Are in Various Stages of Implementation", "DOD Is in the Early Stages of Establishing a Cross-Functional Team to Manage the Transfer of Background Investigations to DOD", "DOD Has Established 9 Cross-Functional Teams to Improve DOD’s Busines...
{ "question": [ "How does DOD plan to address the backlog of clearance investigations?", "What do DOD's cross-functional teams address?", "What is the personnel makeup of these teams?", "In what ways has DOD failed to fulfill statutory requirements?", "How have DOD officials responded to this fail...
CRS_RL34508
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Background", "Market Conditions", "Prices", "Consumption", "Supply", "Market Trends", "Seasonality", "Increasing Gas-for-Power Use", "Industrial Gas Use Rebound", "Global LNG Trade", "Infrastructure Progress", "Forecasts", "...
{ "question": [ "Why has the average wellhead price risen during the 2007-2008 heating season?", "Why was this upward price movement in the natural gas market unexpected?", "What will most likely influence prices in the foreseeable future?", "What became the largest sector for natural gas consumption ...
GAO_GAO-16-51
{ "title": [ "Background", "GI Bill Overview", "VA OJT and Apprenticeship Programs", "OJT and Apprenticeship Post- 9/11 GI Bill Benefits", "Program Requirements and Approval Process", "OJT and Apprenticeship Resources through DOL", "DOL OJT Services", "DOL Apprenticeship Programs", ...
{ "question": [ "To what extent have OJT and apprenticeship programs benefited veterans?", "How have the programs helped veterans offset the reduction in income they experienced leaving the military?", "To what extent has the program made GI Bill benefits more readily available?", "What is a contribut...
GAO_GAO-15-348
{ "title": [ "Background", "Assessments of National Data Largely Show Positive Effect of CHIP on Coverage and Access, and Identify Areas for Improvement", "Mandated Evaluation Highlights Reduction in the Rate of Uninsured Children and Improved Access to Health Care", "HHS Has Ongoing Efforts to Enhanc...
{ "question": [ "What are some advantages that CHIP enrollees have over uninsured and privately insured children?", "How are the findings of the mandated evaluation of CHIP supported by previous studies?", "How did the findings of the mandated evaluation differ from prior GAO work?", "What could have ...
CRS_R45653
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "The Current Process: Criminal Contempt and Civil Enforcement of Subpoenas", "Criminal Contempt of Congress", "Civil Enforcement of Subpoenas", "The Current Process in Use", "The Burford Contempt", "The Miers and Bolten Contempts", "The Holder Conte...
{ "question": [ "How can compliance with congressional demands be compelled when information is withheld by the executive branch?", "What is the recipient of a valid congressional subpoena required to do?", "Why is it important to have a process by which to enforce congressional subpoenas?", "When can...
GAO_GAO-17-575
{ "title": [ "Background", "Our Prior Reports and Recommendations", "Cost Estimating", "Test Events", "Legislative Cost Cap of Ford-Class Ships", "Persistent Issues with Lead Ship Construction Continue to Drive Cost Uncertainty", "Challenges with Technology Development, Design, and Constru...
{ "question": [ "Why does the cost estimate for CVN 79 not demonstrate that the program can meet its cost cap?", "What challenges lead to cost growth for the lead ship?", "What assumptions in the Navy's estimate for CVN 79 make the estimate unrealistic?", "How did the program estimate influence the am...
CRS_R43923
{ "title": [ "", "Background", "Policy Issues", "Restrictions on OSTP Engagement with China", "Reporting Structure of the U.S. Chief Technology Officer", "OSTP Role in Ensuring Scientific Integrity", "George W. Bush Administration", "Obama Administration", "Public Access to Publish...
{ "question": [ "How did Congress establish the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)?", "What does the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 state?", "What is the primary function of the OSTP Director, according to the act?", "What else is the offic...
GAO_GAO-14-743T
{ "title": [ "Background", "Interior Uses a Multistep Review Process to Help Ensure That Compacts Comply with IGRA", "Interior’s Process for Reviewing Compacts", "Variety of Provisions Contained in Compacts Approved by Interior", "Reasons Compacts Are Deemed Approved or Disapproved", "State an...
{ "question": [ "How does the Department of the Interior help ensure that compacts comply with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act?", "What are these compacts?", "How do the provisions of the compacts approved by the Department of the Interior vary?", "What happened to the compacts which were not approve...
CRS_RL30349
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Establishment and Evolution of GAO", "1921 Establishment", "Expansion and Extension of Authority and Jurisdiction", "Additional Responsibilities", "Audit and Accounting Authority", "GPRA", "Reviewing Regulations", "Access to Government Document...
{ "question": [ "What are the original and current names of GAO?", "Why was the GAO renamed?", "What is the Government Accountability Office?", "How does GAO operate?", "How is the GAO instantiated?", "What is the current status of the Comptroller General post?", "Why was GAO established i...
CRS_R44753
{ "title": [ "", "Overview", "Regional Organizations", "The Pacific Islands and U.S. Interests", "U.S. Policies in the South Pacific", "Foreign Assistance", "South Pacific Tuna Treaty", "Compacts of Free Association", "Background", "Palau: Compact of Free Association Review Agr...
{ "question": [ "Why is the Pacific Island region important?", "What interest has the region captured of other countries?", "What role does Congress play in the Compacts of Free Association?", "What economic interests does the US have?", "What background does this report provide?", "What does ...
CRS_RL34392
{ "title": [ "", "The Succession Question", "The Presidential Election", "Alternative Scenarios", "Possible Implications for U.S. Interests" ], "paragraphs": [ "", "Transfer of supreme political power in Russia can be a dicey business. Under the tsars, succession to the throne often wa...
{ "question": [ "How did Medvedev come to power?", "Prior to this, what did Medvedev claim?", "What did the Putin regime do?", "How does the Russian Constitution limit political terms?", "What was causing political uncertainty?", "How was the uncertainty reduced?" ], "summary": [ "Firs...
CRS_R44659
{ "title": [ "", "Contests in the State", "Examples of State Procedures", "Challenges to Electoral Count in Congress" ], "paragraphs": [ "A lthough it has national impact, the presidential election is, in essence, 50 state and District of Columbia elections for presidential electors held on th...
{ "question": [ "How are presidential elections conducted?", "What responsibilities do states have in presidential elections?", "How are voters able to voice concerns about political elections?", "What happens after the election of presidential electors?", "How are elector votes cast and counted?"...
GAO_GAO-18-382
{ "title": [ "Background", "Elementary and Secondary Education School Facilities", "Health Effects of Lead", "The Safe Drinking Water Act", "Lead in School Drinking Water", "EPA Guidance for Schools", "Roles and Responsibilities of Federal Agencies", "An Estimated 43 Percent of School ...
{ "question": [ "How prevalent is lead in school drinking water?", "Is this potentially dangerous to students?", "How are districts with lead contaminated water rectifying the problem?", "What resources do school districts have for supplying safe drinking water?", "Is this resource considered help...
CRS_RL31886
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Current Focus on Medical Malpractice and Health Reform", "Insurance Fundamentals", "Risk Transfer and Financial Intermediation", "Insurance Operations and Pricing", "Market Cycles: Hard and Soft Markets", "Medical Malpractice Insurance", "Medical M...
{ "question": [ "How is insurance viewed in modern society?", "How is this evident in the medical field?", "How did this directly impact physicians?", "What is the purpose of insurance?", "What are the risk of determining premium prices?", "What else influence premium pricing?", "How has C...
GAO_GAO-13-537
{ "title": [ "Background", "U.S. Agencies Participate in Various Programs with PIF or PIF-owned Entities", "OPIC, PIF, and Commercial Banks Are Co-Lenders to the Affordable Mortgage and Loan Program in the West Bank", "OPIC and PIF Are Co-Guarantors to the Loan Guarantee Facility in the West Bank", ...
{ "question": [ "How are US agencies involved with the PIF or associated entities?", "What kind of actions do US agencies and PIF participate in together?", "How are OPIC and PIF involved with the LGF program?", "How are the US entities helping the LGF banks?", "What are the academic associations ...
CRS_RL32723
{ "title": [ "", "Overview", "Background", "Political Situation", "Internal ZANU-PF Struggles", "The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)", "Division in the Opposition", "Opposition Defiance Against a Ban on Protests and Rallies", "Restrictions on Political Freedoms", "Politica...
{ "question": [ "What was Zimbabwe's political outlook in the late twentieth century?", "How did the MDC impact Zimbabwe during this time?", "What was the outcome of the referendum?", "What did Zimbabwe's government do in response to the failure of the referendum?", "How was President Mugabe's aut...
CRS_R43428
{ "title": [ "", "Background", "Pit Fabrication Options", "Options Using Modules", "Options Using Existing Buildings", "Analytical Chemistry Options", "Options at Sites Other Than Los Alamos", "Options at Los Alamos", "Questions for Congress" ], "paragraphs": [ "", "Con...
{ "question": [ "What is a current debate in Congress concerning nuclear weapons?", "When did this debate start to be relevant and who is responsible?", "What did the US government do in response to Rocky Flats Plant's production?", "What is the extent of the DOE's nuclear output at these facilities?"...
GAO_GAO-19-547
{ "title": [ "Background", "Roles and Responsibilities for State and DHS Components", "E-2 Eligibility Requirements", "E-2 Nonimmigrant Adjudication Processes", "State and USCIS Adjudicated About 54,000 E-2 Visa Applications or Petitions Per Year From Fiscal Years 2014 through 2018; Roles, Busines...
{ "question": [ "What was the extent and results of the Department of State and USCIS’ processing of foreign nationals seeking E-2 status from 2014-2018?", "What was the distribution of State versus USCIS applications?", "What types of people are seeking E-2 statuses through State and USCIS?", "Why ma...
CRS_RL33755
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Development of Current Tax Treatment of the Family", "Personal Exemptions and Child Credits", "Standard Deduction or Flat Exclusion and Itemized Deductions", "Rate Structure", "Earned Income Tax Credit", "Child or Dependent Care Credit", "Alternati...
{ "question": [ "How has income tax in the United States changed over time?", "What caused these shifts?", "How have these changes to personal income tax been implemented?", "How has personal income tax been affected by recent legislation?", "How and when was the American Recovery and Reinvestmen...
CRS_R44067
{ "title": [ "", "Designating War Funding to Meet Spending Caps", "Congressional Action", "Administration Position", "Potential Implications", "Designating Base Budget Funds as OCO", "The Impact of Maintaining BCA Defense Caps", "Distinguishing War Funding and \"Enduring Presence\" Nee...
{ "question": [ "What concern has the President, some Members of Congress, and military leaders voiced about spending caps?", "What are some other suggestions?", "How does this compare to the President's budget request plan?", "How are the BCA caps slated to rise?", "What happens if the President ...
CRS_R43765
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998", "Presidential Policy Directive 19", "Title VI of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2014", "Protection from Adverse Personnel Actions", "Protection from Adverse Security Clearance and Info...
{ "question": [ "What are intelligence whistleblowers?", "How is this helpful?", "What are some drawbacks?", "What measures have Congress and President Obama taken to protect whistleblowers?", "What do these measures protect and not protect?", "What is the ICWPA and how does it differ from oth...
CRS_R42653
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction and Overview1", "Selected Federal Water Activities: Agencies, Authorities, and Congressional Committee Jurisdictions", "Report Organization", "Water Resources Development, Management, and Use", "", "Water Quality, Protection, and Restoration", "", "Wa...
{ "question": [ "How has Congress's address on water resources issues affected related federal laws?", "What agencies are involved by these congressional committees?", "What do the activities respond to?", "What kind of federal activities does this report focus on?", "What kind of topics and subto...
GAO_GAO-12-689
{ "title": [ "Background", "VA Changed Estimates Supporting the Request, but Factors That Account for Most of the Changes Were Not Transparent", "Request Increased $165 Million, Reflecting an Increase in Initiatives and a Decrease in Both Ongoing Services and Available Resources", "Past Issues in VA’s...
{ "question": [ "How did the President's fiscal year 2013 budget request for the Department of VA compare with the year prior?", "What did this request reflect?", "What was the first factor that accounted for these changes?", "What was the effect of this new reporting approach?", "Why was the new ...
GAO_GAO-13-684
{ "title": [ "Background", "Agencies’ Efforts to Identify Firefighting Aircraft Needs Have Been Hampered by Limited Information and Collaboration", "Agency Efforts to Identify Firefighting Aircraft Needs Did Not Include Information on Performance and Effectiveness of Firefighting Aircraft", "Agencies ...
{ "question": [ "What efforts did the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and the Department of Interior have undertaken to identify information regarding firefighting aircraft?", "Why didn't the documents incorporate information on the performance of these aircrafts?", "Why didn't the study have e...
GAO_GAO-18-39
{ "title": [ "Background", "Enforcement of Tax Laws and GAO’s High-Risk List", "Underreporting by Individual Taxpayers Accounts for the Largest Portion of the Tax Gap", "Individual Income Tax Underreporting", "Employment Tax Underreporting", "Corporation Income Tax Underreporting", "Net Ta...
{ "question": [ "How did IRS previously improve voluntary compliance?", "What does IRS now do?", "How does IRS impact on taxpayers' compliance?", "Why does the IRS need to measure taxpayer compliance?", "How does the IRS study compliance behaviors?", "Why is it important for IRS to develop a s...
CRS_R44581
{ "title": [ "", "Global Trends", "U.S. Policy Background", "Agency Roles and Responsibilities", "The State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons", "The President's Interagency Task Force", "Other U.S. Agencies", "United Nations Role", "State Department R...
{ "question": [ "How is human trafficking defined?", "What is the global impact of human trafficking?", "How is human trafficking carried out?", "What is the scale of human trafficking?", "How is human trafficking manifested in the modern day?", "Why is the demand higher for human trafficking ...
GAO_GAO-14-97
{ "title": [ "Background", "SSBCI Participants Have Used Funds at Varying Rates and a Number of Challenges Have Been Addressed", "SSBCI Fund Usage Has Increased but Continues to Vary Widely across Participants", "Treasury and Stakeholders Undertake Various Outreach Activities to Promote Use of SSBCI",...
{ "question": [ "How has the amount of money allocated to SSBCI participants changed since 2012?", "What challenges do SSBCI participants face with funds?", "What challenges will SSBCI participants continue to face?", "How is SSBCI managed?", "How does Treasury use performance measures?", "Wha...
CRS_R41686
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction: U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers", "Detecting Tsunamis and Issuing Warnings", "The DART Buoy Network", "The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program", "Issues for Congress", "Reauthorization of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program: Legislation in the...
{ "question": [ "What is the Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research Act of 2015?", "What did Senate introduce in relation to this act?", "What was the outcome of Senate's introduction of its own bill?", "What effects would the Senate and House bills have on NTHMP?", "What does NTHMP do?", "W...
GAO_GAO-14-51
{ "title": [ "Background", "LMP Supports AMC’s Industrial Operations, but Additional Development Is Needed to Meet Certain Critical Requirements", "AMC Is Using LMP to Support Its Industrial Operations", "Additional LMP Development Needed to Meet Certain Critical Army Requirements", "LMP Has Provi...
{ "question": [ "Why is AMC using the LMP?", "What did officials at AMC sites say about LMP?", "What did army officials say about LMP?", "How will increment 2 deal with what army officials said about LMP?", "Why is it hard to know whether Increment 1 delivered the expected financial benefits?", ...
CRS_R43301
{ "title": [ "", "Background on the American Job Center System", "Report Structure and Programs Discussed", "Unemployment Insurance5", "Unemployment Compensation", "Extended Benefits", "Employment and Training Programs", "Grants with National Scope", "Programs Available to All Jobs...
{ "question": [ "What is unemployment insurance?", "What workers can have UI?", "How is UI beneficial to these workers?", "How can UI benefits be extended?", "What is this report limited to?", "Why is this report limited?", "Why are other employment acts not discussed in the report?" ], ...
CRS_RL34101
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Empirical Evidence on the Effects of Price Transparency", "What Are the Implications for Health Care Markets?", "Why Do Different Prices Persist? Differentiated Products and Price Discrimination", "Cost Structures and Pricing", "Special Characteristics of ...
{ "question": [ "What are consumer advocates calling for?", "What specific measures do they want imposed?", "What is price transparency?", "What are consumers unaware of in health care markets?", "What have empirical studies investigated?", "What do these studies suggest?", "How could thes...
GAO_GAO-19-603
{ "title": [ "Background", "Medicaid Payments to Hospitals", "DSH Payments", "Non-DSH Payments", "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and DSH Allotments", "States Increasingly Made Supplemental Payments to Hospitals", "States Increasingly Made Supplemental Payments to Ho...
{ "question": [ "What are DSH payments?", "What components make up the DSH program?", "What did GAO's analysis of the DSH program say?", "What is Medicaid?", "What are supplemental payments?", "What determines hospital payment amounts?", "How are hospital payment amounts scheduled to chang...
CRS_R42818
{ "title": [ "", "Overview", "Background", "Key Concepts and Definitions", "Regional Transmission Operators /Independent System Operators", "Economic Supply and Electricity Dispatch", "Transmission Congestion Constraints", "Locational Marginal Prices (LMP)", "Multiple Revenue Sourc...
{ "question": [ "How has US wind power generation changed over time?", "What has contributed to US wind power generation changes?", "What contribution did US wind power have to US electricity generation in 2011?", "What is important to recognize when considering the impact of wind power?", "What a...
GAO_GAO-19-231
{ "title": [ "Background", "Advance Directives and POLST Forms", "Advance Directive", "POLST Form", "Information on Completing and Storing Advance Care Planning Documents", "Websites Related to Advance Care Planning Were Available for All States; About One Quarter of States Had Registries for ...
{ "question": [ "What is the purpose of Advance care planning documents?", "What are advance directives?", "Under what circumstances are POLST documents appropriate?", "What are challenges related to the use of advance care planning documents?", "What challenges were seen related to the initiation...
CRS_R43221
{ "title": [ "", "Background", "Pre-PRWORA Enactments", "PRWORA", "Post-PRWORA Enactments", "Legal Issues", "Noncitizens' Rights to Equal Protection", "Application to Federal Restrictions on Public Benefits", "Application as to State and Local Restrictions on Public Benefits", ...
{ "question": [ "Why is it hard to attain government assistance?", "What is the purpose of PRWORA?", "How does PRWORA affect aliens?", "What constitutional conflict does the public benefit policy raise?", "To what extent will federal measures distinguishing between citizens and aliens be upheld?",...
CRS_RL33344
{ "title": [ "", "Most Recent Developments", "FY2007 Supplemental Appropriations Acts", "FY2007 Appropriations Bill Enacted", "Continuing Resolutions Enacted", "Senate Committee Passage", "House Passage", "President's Budget Submitted", "Introduction to the Department of Housing an...
{ "question": [ "How does the FY2007 budget compare to FY2006?", "What did HUD comment regarding the FY2007 budget?", "To what extent did the funding bill meet the President's requested level of funding?", "How was the Senate's version of this bill passed?", "How did the Senate bill differ from th...
CRS_R44845
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "The Office of Federal Student Aid", "FSA as a Performance-Based Organization", "Primary Functions", "Student Loan Ombudsman", "Processing Applications and Awarding Aid", "Applying for Title IV Student Aid", "Processing the FAFSA", "Central Proc...
{ "question": [ "How does the federal government affect student loans?", "What are the primary functions of the FSA?", "How do third-parties assist the FSA in its administrative functions?", "What is the first step in obtaining a direct loan?", "How is student eligibility determined?", "How do...
GAO_GAO-13-376
{ "title": [ "Background", "States Have Made Significant Progress Implementing Wireless E911", "According to FCC’s Reporting, Some States Have Used 911 Funds for Other Purposes, but FCC’s Reporting Could Be More Useful", "State Methods for Collecting 911 Funds", "States’ Use of 911 Funds", "Li...
{ "question": [ "To what extent are 911 call centers capable of receiving Phase I and Phase II information?", "How has wireless Enhanced 911 improved since 2003?", "What areas lack wireless E911?", "What states reported using 911 services funds for other purposes?", "What are the risk associated w...
CRS_RL34029
{ "title": [ "", "Current Situation", "Haiti's Development Needs", "Short-Term Strategy for Addressing Haiti's Needs", "Medium-Term Strategy for Addressing Haiti's Needs", "Long-Term Strategy for Addressing Haiti's Needs", "Critiques of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Process", "The Bus...
{ "question": [ "How extreme is Haiti's poverty rate?", "What economic growth would be necessary to eradicate extreme poverty?", "Why is economic growth is not going to be enough to address Haiti's poverty?", "How is Haiti planning to reduce poverty?", "What role will international aid play in thi...