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CRS_RL33536
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Most Recent Developments", "U.S. Trade with China3", "U.S. Merchandise Exports to China", "Major U.S. Merchandise Imports from China", "Trade in Services", "The U.S. Merchandise Trade Deficit with China", "The Transfer of Pacific Rim Production to ...
{ "question": [ "What has happened to the bilateral economic relationship between the U.S. and China?", "From the U.S. perspective, from where do these tensions stem?", "What are U.S. policymakers and stakeholders most concerned about?", "Why are policymakers concerned about these policies?", "Wha...
GAO_GAO-15-194
{ "title": [ "Background", "State Did Not Follow Leading Practices in Its Transition from a Single Insurer Program to the Open Market", "State Transitioned to an Open Market System in July 2012", "State Did Not Follow Leading Practices during Its Transition to an Open Market System", "State Lacks ...
{ "question": [ "What did the Department of State not follow as it transitioned to an open market system?", "In what ways did they not follow leading acquisition practices?", "How did insurers react to the provisions in the State's solicitation?", "How was the State negatively affected by not followin...
GAO_GAO-14-819
{ "title": [ "Background", "Contract Type", "Contract Oversight", "Agencies Did Not Use Preferred Contract Types for the Majority of Contract Obligations When Procuring Professional Services", "Agencies’ Oversight of Selected Professional Service Contracts Did Not Consistently Follow Regulations, ...
{ "question": [ "What shortcomings were there regarding the three USDA agencies?", "Twelve of the 15 contracts failed to include what?", "Why had the agencies not completed contractor assessments?", "Why does the Federal Acquisition Regulation direct such plans be prepared?", "How are Food and Nut...
CRS_R40093
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "China's and Japan's Regional Strategies", "China", "Japan", "Historical Background", "Brief Summary of Sino-Japan Relations", "The U.S. Role", "Occupation after World War II", "The \"Nixon Shock\"", "Sino-Japanese Post-Cold War Relations", ...
{ "question": [ "How has the Japan-China bilateral relationship changed within the past decade?", "What breakthrough agreements helped to improve this relationship?", "How does the relationship between these two countries affect more than just China and Japan?", "What suspicions remain between these c...
GAO_GAO-18-203
{ "title": [ "Background", "Restitution Roles and Responsibilities", "Restitution Overview", "Select USAOs Reported Documenting Requests for Restitution, but the Judiciary Did Not Always Document Reasons It Was Not Ordered EOUSA and Officials in Six USAOs Told Us Their Offices Document Requests for Re...
{ "question": [ "Officials from USAO document requests for restitution in case files for what reason?", "What did GAO's analysis of USSC data reveal regarding documentation?", "What information has been garnered from this data?", "How did USAO officials explain the low percentage of restitution ordere...
CRS_R40758
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "DPJ Background", "The DPJ Policy Agenda", "Implications for the United States", "The DPJ Position on the U.S.-Japan Alliance", "Other Implications for U.S. Interests", "Afghanistan", "Regional Diplomacy", "North Korea (DPRK)", "Climate Chan...
{ "question": [ "How did Japan's political landscape shift in 2009?", "Previously, how long had the LDP been controlling the government?", "In what way is the DPJ bipartisan?", "What expectation is there regarding a special session beginning in September?", "What has the DPJ controlled since 2007?...
CRS_R41872
{ "title": [ "", "Background: Advice and Consent", "The Executive Branch Process: Selection, Clearance, and Nomination", "The Legislative Branch Process: Confirmation", "Recent Concerns over the Appointment and Confirmation Process", "Number of PAS Positions", "Length of the Vetting Proces...
{ "question": [ "How did the process change from before to after the adoption of current measures of advice and consent?", "What has been criticized about the appointment and confirmation process?", "What do critics believe is the problem with the confirmation process?", "What is the counterargument t...
GAO_GAO-19-8
{ "title": [ "Background", "Poverty in U.S. High Schools", "Characteristics of U.S. High Schools and the College Preparation Process", "U.S. Department of Education College Readiness Initiatives", "Federal Efforts to Promote Equitable Access to Educational Resources", "High-Poverty Schools Off...
{ "question": [ "What did students in relatively poor schools have less access to?", "What course disparities were associated with school poverty level?", "What were high-poverty schools less likely to offer?", "What are smaller schools and certain types of schools, like charter schools, less likely t...
CRS_R40117
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Concepts and Definitional/Contextual Background", "U.S. Context", "UNHCR's Global Context", "Overview: UNHCR's Population of Concern", "Refugee Resettlement in OECD Member States", "Resettlement Inflows", "Migration Concerns and Political Values", ...
{ "question": [ "What is the United States one of, in terms of refugee populations?", "What effect does the country's leadership have?", "What has happened to the total UNHCR-registered refugee resettlements to the United States?", "What have resettlement levels been relative to the rest of the OECD?"...
GAO_GAO-14-93
{ "title": [ "Background", "ROTC Programs Met Some, but Not All, Production Goals to Achieve Officer End Strength, and Retain Some Units That Do Not Meet Minimum Production Requirements", "The Services Met Some, but Not All, of Their Overall ROTC Officer Production Goals for Newly Commissioned Officers", ...
{ "question": [ "What have been the results of the ROTC goals for each military service?", "What did GAO analysis find about ROTC units meeting DOD minimum average annual production requirement?", "How does cost per commissioned officer vary?", "What is an example of cost per commissioned officer vari...
CRS_R45165
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Fundamentals of Farm Commodity Programs", "Eligible Commodities", "Federal Support Options", "Base Acres", "Reference Prices and Loan Rates", "Coupled Versus Decoupled Payments", "Decoupled Revenue Support Programs: PLC and ARC", "Coupled Price...
{ "question": [ "What have federal efforts to bolster farm household incomes done?", "How are these farm programs designed?", "What do the farm commodity program provisions consist of?", "How do PLC Payments occur?", "What is the difference between these two prices?", "How do ARC payments occu...
GAO_GAO-14-153
{ "title": [ "Background", "Types of Providers and Practice Requirements", "Medicare Coverage and Payment for Chronic Pain Procedures", "CRNAs Billed for Few Selected Chronic Pain Procedures, Most of Which Were in Rural Areas", "CRNAs Billed for a Consistently Small Share of Selected Procedures, W...
{ "question": [ "What did certified registered nurse anesthetists do from 2009-2012?", "What did physicians without board certification in pain medicine do?", "What happened to the number of procedures billed by rural CRNAs?", "What happened to the share billed by CRNAs in rural areas?", "What is ...
GAO_GAO-15-445
{ "title": [ "Background", "FPS and USMS Face a Range of Challenges with Security Screening", "Building Characteristics and Location May Limit Security Options", "Balancing Security and Public Access", "Operating with Limited Resources", "Working with Multiple Federal Tenants", "Effectivel...
{ "question": [ "What steps did both FPS and USMS take to assess security-screening efforts?", "What does FPS data show from fiscal years 2011 to 2013?", "What did FPS do in October 2012?", "What does USMS data show about court security officers?", "What is an example of this?", "What variatio...
GAO_GAO-14-228T
{ "title": [ "Fully Implementing GAO’s Prior Recommendations for Better Determining Causes of Morale Problems Would Assist in Targeting Action Plans", "Senior Leadership Vacancy Rates Generally Declined, but Components’ Rates Varied", "GAO Contact and Staff Acknowledgments" ], "paragraphs": [ "In ...
{ "question": [ "What did GAO report about DHS Senior Executive Service vacancy rates?", "What did GAO report about component officials?", "What has DHS done to reduce SES vacancy rates?", "What has DHS done to the pilot process as of December 2013?", "What is DHS?", "What kinds of jobs do DHS...
CRS_R45123
{ "title": [ "", "The Excise Taxes on Firearms, Ammunition, and Archery Equipment", "The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund: Apportionment and Use", "Types of P-R Funding", "Taxes and Fees Under the 1934 National Firearms Act and Gun Control Act of 1968", "Legislative Proposals"...
{ "question": [ "Under the Internal Revenue Code, how are firearm taxes collected?", "How are these taxes calculated?", "How do pistols and revolvers compare in terms of percentage of tax revenue?", "How is the tax administered?", "How are these tax revenues allocated?", "How is the Wildlife R...
GAO_GAO-14-8
{ "title": [ "Background", "IES Supports High- Quality Research, but Lacks Key Processes and Performance Measures in Some Areas", "IES Supports High-Quality Research, but Does Not Monitor the Timeliness of Some Aspects of Its Peer Review Process", "IES Has Taken Steps to Meet Stakeholders’ Needs, but ...
{ "question": [ "What is the status of the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences?", "How does IES' education research compare to that at its inception?", "What did GAO identify with IES?", "What concerns have emerged with IES timeframes?", "What concerns have emerged with IES' ...
GAO_GAO-14-256
{ "title": [ "Background", "Student Loan Default Resolution, Including Loan Rehabilitation", "Education’s Common Services for Borrowers Contract", "Education Relies on Collection Agencies to Assist Borrowers in Rehabilitating Defaulted Student Loans", "Limited Planning and Oversight of Education’s...
{ "question": [ "What is the relationship between Education and collection agencies?", "How does Education work with collection agencies?", "What did Education collect through rehabilitation?", "What was the impact of the upgrade of Education's defaulted loan information system?", "What was the re...
CRS_R42049
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "FASA and Subsequent Amendments", "National Defense Authorization Act for FY2008", "Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for FY2011", "The GAO and Court Decisions", "National Defense Authorization Act for FY2012" ], "paragraphs": [ "", ...
{ "question": [ "What was President Obama's contribution to national defense?", "What is the duration of this act?", "For what reason did these cases arise?", "Who has historically had jurisdiction over protests regarding agency conduct?", "How did FASA change this jurisdiction?", "How has FAS...
GAO_GAO-17-524
{ "title": [ "Scope and Methodology", "Control Deficiencies Identified during Our Fiscal Year 2016 Audit", "Monitoring Intragovernmental Differences", "Recommendation for Executive Action", "Adjustments to Federal Entity Financial Information Submitted for the CFS", "Recommendation for Executi...
{ "question": [ "What did GAO determine regarding control deficiencies?", "What was the process for closing recommendations?", "Why did GAO close a recommendation?", "How will GAO address recommendations that remain open?", "Why is GAO making recommendations to Treasury and OMB?", "How did Tre...
GAO_GAO-12-993
{ "title": [ "Background", "EDA Awarded CTAA Grants Using Its Standard Grant Process but Reported Some Program- Specific Challenges", "EDA Used Its Standard Process to Announce, Review, and Award Grants", "EDA Officials Reported CTAA-Specific Challenges Related to the Grants Award Process", "EDA C...
{ "question": [ "What has EDA used its grant award process for?", "How did EDA reach out to eligible communities?", "What kind of review process did EDA use?", "What kinds of projects were the grants for?", "What CTAA-specific challenges were identified?", "How does EDA monitor its grants?", ...
CRS_R44755
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Sources of Value", "The Production Location", "FTC Authority", "Trump Administration Executive Orders", "Manufacturing in Federal Law", "Buy American Act", "Federal Transportation Funding—\"Buy America\"", "Defense Procurement", "Jones Act"...
{ "question": [ "What is assumed about manufactured products?", "How does this assumption create a binary?", "What is the problem with this assumption?", "What is assumed about physical transformation?", "What is not relevant to the determination of whether a product was made in the US?", "How...
CRS_R44483
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction: Potential Is the Key Word1", "Issues for Congress", "Background: Big Plans for Natural Gas", "Key Chinese Government Agencies and Companies", "Big Three Oil Companies", "Domestic Industry Concerns", "Anti-corruption", "Monopolies", "Natural Gas P...
{ "question": [ "What is China's involvement with natural gas?", "What could China's involvement with natural gas be?", "What announcement has China made regarding natural gas?", "Why might this announcement not be accurate?", "How is China's energy sector controlled?", "What are China's three...
GAO_GAO-12-693
{ "title": [ "Background", "Medicare Payments", "The CBP", "CBP Online Contract Supplier Locator", "CBP Beneficiary Assistance through 1-800-MEDICARE", "CMS’s CBP Monitoring Activities", "Outcomes of CMS’s Implementation of the CBP Round 1 Rebid", "Nearly the Same Number of Suppliers B...
{ "question": [ "What did CMS within HHS implement?", "How did the number of bids compare between CBP round 1 rebid and round 1?", "What did suppliers have difficulty with?", "What did some suppliers find after being notified of bid results?", "What portion of bidding suppliers received contracts?...
CRS_R41726
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Overview of Recent Discretionary Spending", "The Budget Control Act of 2011", "Congress Has Modified BCA Caps to Mitigate Fiscal Stringency", "Federal Budget Data and Concepts", "OMB Budget Data", "Negative Budget Authority", "Federal Credit Progra...
{ "question": [ "What does this report provide?", "How does this report provide a starting point for discussion about fiscal policies?", "What are functional categories?", "What are subfunction categories?", "What are budget function categories?", "How is spending in this report measured?", ...
CRS_R42782
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Congressional Action on FY2013 Appropriations", "Status of Regular Appropriations", "Prior to the Beginning of the Fiscal Year", "After the Beginning of the Fiscal Year", "FY2013 Continuing Resolutions", "FY2013 Continuing Resolutions: Components", ...
{ "question": [ "What did the House and Senate Appropriations Committees report at the beginning of the fiscal year?", "What happened to these appropriations bills?", "How were these bills later signed into law?", "What did the first part-year CR for FY2013 cover?", "What rate was budget authority...
GAO_GAO-17-166
{ "title": [ "Background", "Contracts Provide Certain Advantages, and Their Use by Certain Shippers Has Increased", "Contracts Are Private and Include Negotiable Terms", "Contract and Tariff Rates Are Based on Similar Market Factors", "Volume Commitments and Other Contract Features Provide Advanta...
{ "question": [ "What flexibility do contracts offer?", "How are contract and tariff rates similar?", "What does a railroad also need to consider in developing contract rates?", "What do volume commitments in a contract allow for?", "Why might tariffs or contracts be preferred over the other?", ...
CRS_R41890
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Overview: Congress and \"Dirty Bombs\"", "A Note on Terminology", "Radiation and Radiological Dispersal Devices", "Radiation and Its Effects", "RDDs and Nuclear Weapons", "Value of RDDs for Terrorists", "The Threat: Feasibility, Fear, Probability, ...
{ "question": [ "What has Congress long sought?", "What is one type of CBRN weapon?", "What is one type of RDD?", "What information does this report provide?", "Why have terrorists shown interest in RDDs?", "How could terrorists use RDDs?", "What do people believe about terrorists’ use of ...
CRS_RL33095
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Organization of DOD Civil Support1", "Procedures for Obtaining DOD Civil Support6", "Role of the National Guard14", "State Active Duty", "\"Title 32\" Status", "Federal Status", "Activation Statuses: Advantages and Disadvantages", "DOD Katrina-...
{ "question": [ "What is the role of the National Guard?", "How is the National Guard's ability to respond through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact?", "What issues are there with the National Guard's ability to respond to disaster situations?", "What issue has attracted attention regarding ...
CRS_RL33528
{ "title": [ "", "Technology and Competitiveness", "The Federal Role in Technology Development", "Legislative Initiatives and Current Programs", "Increased R&D Spending", "Industry-University Cooperative Efforts", "Joint Industrial Research", "Commercialization of the Results of Federa...
{ "question": [ "What has Congressional action mandated?", "How were technology development programs mandated by Congress created?", "How have federal programs in technology development been curtailed?" ], "summary": [ "Congressional action has mandated specific technology development programs and...
GAO_GAO-13-792
{ "title": [ "Background", "Roles and Responsibilities", "Previous GAO Work on Estimating the Full Cost of Personnel", "DOD’s Methodology for Estimating and Comparing the Full Cost to the Taxpayer of Work Performed by Its Workforces is Limited in Certain Aspects", "DOD’s Instruction Includes Impro...
{ "question": [ "What shortcomings does the DOD’s methodology for estimating taxpayer cost still have?", "How do discrepancies in servicemember training costs illuminate this issue?", "How has CAPE responded to the request to provide more specific direction on training costs?", "What personnel is not ...
CRS_R43179
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "The Veteran Patient Population", "Advance Appropriations26", "Department of Veterans Affairs Budget", "Overview of Veterans Health Administration's Budget Formulation31", "Funding for the VHA", "Medical Services", "Medical Support and Compliance (P...
{ "question": [ "What is the purpose of VA?", "What benefits are available to veterans?", "How does VA provide these benefits?", "What is VHA?", "What is VA health care eligibility based on?", "What was requested for VA and VHA?", "What specifically was included in the requests?", "Why...
GAO_GAO-14-32
{ "title": [ "Background", "Small Vessels Pose Security Risks", "Small Vessels Are Generally Unregulated", "Development of the SVSS and SVSS Implementation Plan", "DHS and Its Components Are Taking Actions, but DHS Is Not Tracking Progress in Addressing the SVSS Implementation Plan", "DHS Comp...
{ "question": [ "What has DHS started to do regarding small vessel security risks?", "What are small vessels?", "Why has DHS not determined the progress of its components and stakeholders?", "What does DHS believe about the SVSS implementation plan?", "How could DHS improve the SVSS plan?", "W...
GAO_GAO-18-222
{ "title": [ "Background", "The Three Most Recent Transportation Authorizations Included Numerous Provisions for Accelerating Highway and Transit Project Delivery", "State DOTs Reported That a Number of Provisions They Used Sped Up Highway Project Delivery, While for Most Selected Transit Agencies Effects...
{ "question": [ "For what is the DOT responsible?", "What do project sponsors that receive federal funds do?", "Why might an EIS or environment assessment not be needed for the project sponsor's projects?", "How did DOT and transit agency provisions affect delivery of projects?", "How were provisi...
CRS_R44791
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Aviation Funding", "FAA Funding Accounts", "Airport Financing8", "Evaluating Capital Needs", "Airport Improvement Program (AIP)", "AIP Funding", "Funding Distribution", "Entitlements (Formula Funds)", "Discretionary Funds", "State Block...
{ "question": [ "What funding authorization expired?", "What reaction has there been to the expiration?", "What does FAA authorization set policy on?", "What is this report about?", "How are most FAA programs financed?", "Why is AATF revenue being adversely affected?", "What would be the r...
CRS_R43057
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Types of Retirement Plans and Accounts", "Defined Benefit Pension Plans", "Defined Contribution Pension Plans", "Individual Retirement Accounts", "Household Net Worth in 2010", "Assets, Debt, and Net Worth Among Single and Married Households in 2010", ...
{ "question": [ "What is a concern both households and policymakers have?", "How has retirement income been changing?", "What are employers offering that is changing retirement income?", "What has been the result of employer offerings?", "How do households also save for retirement?", "Why does...
GAO_GAO-16-209
{ "title": [ "Background", "Eleven Federal Agencies Are Authorized to Use Other Transaction Agreements and Generally Have Guidance for Use", "Other Transaction Agreements Offered Agencies Flexibility and Were Used by Most Agencies for RD&D Activities", "Agency Officials Cited the Flexibility Other Tra...
{ "question": [ "Why are other transaction agreements used?", "How do other transaction agreements provide flexibility?", "What issues did this flexibility resolve?", "How are other transaction agreements used?", "How commonly are other transaction agreements used?", "Why are other transaction...
CRS_R42694
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "The Evolution of the TPP", "Current Negotiating Status", "TPP in Strategic Context", "The TPP and the \"Rebalance\" in the Asia-Pacific Region", "TPP and U.S. Trade Policy", "The TPP and the WTO", "The TPP and Other Asia-Pacific Trade Agreements", ...
{ "question": [ "What is the TPP?", "What is the purpose of the TPP?", "How was the TPP announced?", "What could be the effects of the TPP?", "What interest does Congress have in the negotiations?", "To what extent are TPP negotiations finalized?", "How important are these remaining issues...
GAO_GAO-12-940
{ "title": [ "Background", "DHS Employees Reported Lower Morale than the Rest of the Federal Government, but Morale Varied across DHS Components and Employee Groups", "DHS Employees as a Whole Reported Lower Satisfaction and Engagement According to Several Measures", "DHS Took Steps to Determine Root ...
{ "question": [ "What steps has DHS taken to combat employee morale problems?", "What actions have the reviewed components taken?", "How could these efforts be improved?", "How does DHS measure the success of the action plans?", "How does this negatively affect DHS?", "How does DHS compare to ...
GAO_GAO-12-289
{ "title": [ "Background", "Justice’s Working Capital Fund Serves Four Functions", "Working Capital Fund Customer Advisory Board", "Working Capital Fund Key Operating Principles", "JMD Effectively Tracks Working Capital Fund Moneys in Accordance with Fiscal Law and Aspects of Key Operating Princip...
{ "question": [ "What is the function of the JMD?", "What is JMD's relationship to the four working capital fund functions?", "How does JMD facilitate adherence to the Economy Act?", "How does the fund remain self-sufficient?", "What concerns have customers noted?", "How did officials respond ...
CRS_R43443
{ "title": [ "", "The Government's Landlord", "Prospectus Approval Process", "Prospectus Approval as Oversight", "Factors that Limit Oversight", "Lack of Comparative Cost Data", "Lack of Data on the Cost of Alterations", "Failure to Meet Prospectus Submission Requirements", "Legisl...
{ "question": [ "For what projects is GSA required to obtain congressional authorization?", "How does GSA seek congressional approval for prospective projects?", "What does the prospectus consist of?", "Why is authorization needed?", "To what extent are prospectuses a useful tool?", "What info...
GAO_GAO-16-345
{ "title": [ "Background", "Federal Civil Rights Laws, School Desegregation Litigation, and the Federal Role", "Racial and Socioeconomic Demographics of Schools", "Research on Student Outcomes", "The Percentage of High-Poverty Schools with Mostly Black or Hispanic Students Increased over Time, and...
{ "question": [ "How did the three districts address the racial and economic composition of their schools?", "Why were magnet schools created?", "How did they negatively impact other schools?", "How did they negatively impact minority students?", "How has the Departments of Education and Justice c...
CRS_R42664
{ "title": [ "", "Overview and Recent Developments", "Key Issues for Congress", "Context and Current Issues", "Assessing AQIM and Associated Groups", "Mali's Political Transition", "AFISMA and Potential U.N. Peacekeeping Operation", "Humanitarian Conditions", "U.S. Policy", "U....
{ "question": [ "How has Mali been affected by crisis?", "What increased tension in 2011?", "How was this aggravated further in 2012?", "What groups took advantage of the unrest?", "What has happened to the government since the coup?", "What has driven Mali’s crises?", "What displacement h...
GAO_GAO-12-539
{ "title": [ "Background", "Carryover and Its Use", "DOD’s Carryover Policy", "DMAG Reported Actual Carryover Exceeded the Allowable Amount Since Fiscal Year 2006, but Actions Are Under Way to Reduce Carryover", "Marine Corps Underestimated Carryover in Its Budgets", "DMAG Carryover Grew Signi...
{ "question": [ "How has DMAG actual carryover compared to allowable amounts?", "How have actual carryover amounts changed in the last 4 years?", "Why have these changes happened?", "How has DMAG budgeted carryover compared to allowable amounts?", "How have budgeted carryover amounts compared to a...
CRS_RL34278
{ "title": [ "", "Most Recent Developments", "Review of Congressional Action on FY2008 Supplemental Appropriations Through December 2007", "Administration Request", "FY2007 Supplemental Appropriations", "Congressional Action through December 2007 on FY2008 Supplemental Appropriations", "Ho...
{ "question": [ "How did the first FY2008 continuing resolution affect MRAP funding?", "How did the regular FY2008 defense appropriations act add to this funding?", "What funding did the FY2008 consolidated appropriations act provide?", "How was funding connected to Iraq policy in 2007?", "How did...
GAO_GAO-14-570
{ "title": [ "Background", "One Company Appears to Issue the Majority of Medical Credit Cards", "Market Participants", "Relationship between Card Companies and Participating Providers", "Settlements with GE Capital Retail Bank and CareCredit", "Medical Credit Cards Commonly Offer Revolving Cre...
{ "question": [ "What medical credit card company provides the majority?", "What was the company's involvement in 2013?", "What other sources provide medical credit cards?", "What other services cover financing of medical services not covered by insurance?", "How was the GE Capital Retail Bank dec...
CRS_R40225
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction1", "Scope and Organization", "Background", "Historical Review", "Current Federal Land Management", "Federal Lands Financing16", "Revenues from Activities on Federal Lands", "Agency Appropriations", "Annual Appropriations", "Trust Funds and Spe...
{ "question": [ "What land does the federal government own in the US?", "Who administers this land?", "How do they receive funding?", "Where are these lands?", "How is the land's revenue used?", "For what are the lands administered by agencies used?", "What responsibilities do the agencies...
CRS_R45709
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Current Policies and Practices3", "The Trust Funds' Investment Principles", "Principle 1: Nonintervention in the Private Economy", "Principle 2: Security", "Principle 3: Neutrality", "Principle 4: Minimal Management of Investment", "Performance and...
{ "question": [ "How is the OSADI program financed?", "What is done with OASDI program revenue?", "What is done with this interest?", "How are the OSADI Trust Funds overseen?", "How are OASDI Trust Fund assets invested?", "Where are OASDI Trust Funds often invested?", "What principles has ...
GAO_GAO-16-335
{ "title": [ "Background", "Tantalum Data from Government and Industry Sources Vary Due to Differences in Forms of Tantalum Reported and Data Collection Methods", "Government and Industry Report Tantalum Data Differently", "Government and Industry Have Different Data Collection Methods", "DOD Has ...
{ "question": [ "Why might different sources produce different tantalum data?", "How are the data from the USGS specialized?", "How are the data from the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center specialized?", "How does the USGS collect data?", "How is this different from the Tantalum-Niobium I...
GAO_GAO-13-805
{ "title": [ "Background", "Laws Governing the Opportunity Scholarship Program", "Administration and Oversight of OSP", "Federal Funding for OSP and Use of Funds", "Student Eligibility and Enrollment in OSP", "Internal Controls Relevant to Implementation and Oversight of OSP", "The Trust P...
{ "question": [ "What is the role of the DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation (the Trust)?", "How does the Trust perform outreach to families?", "How is their information lacking?", "How did the Trust fail to provide information for the 2012-13 school year?", "Why is the directory im...
GAO_GAO-18-169
{ "title": [ "Background", "Analyses Identified about 1 Percent of Enrollments during Plan Year 2015 as Potentially Improper or Fraudulent, with Challenges Remaining in the Identification and Reenrollment of Reportedly Deceased Individuals", "About 1 Percent of Enrollments for Plan Year 2015 Were Identifi...
{ "question": [ "Why were some 2015 enrollments improper or fraudulent?", "How did the FFM verify these potentially fraudulent applicants?", "What does having an SSN mean for eligibility?", "How has the system been changed to allow for verifying SSNs?", "Why were deceased individuals receiving cov...
GAO_GAO-15-469
{ "title": [ "Background", "Military Service Chiefs Are Dissatisfied with Acquisition Outcomes, Citing Requirements Growth as a Key Problem", "Service Chiefs Cite Requirements Growth as a Key Problem in Acquisitions", "Service Chiefs Propose a Range of Solutions to Be More Involved in Acquisitions", ...
{ "question": [ "What were the reactions of the chiefs and vice chiefs GAO interviewed?", "What concerns did service chiefs have when interviewed?", "What suggestions did the service chiefs make to solve these problems?", "What are the responsibilities of service chiefs and acquisition executives?", ...
CRS_RL31392
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "PILT Legislation and Funding", "PILT Legislation: The 110th to 113th Congresses", "PILT Legislation: FY2014", "PILT Legislation: FY2015", "PILT Legislation: FY2016 and FY2017", "How PILT Works: Five Steps to Calculate Payment", "Step 1. How Many Ac...
{ "question": [ "How are local governments compensated for federal use of land?", "Why does the federal use of local land merit compensation for the local government?", "Which compensation program does the report address?", "How is it determined which lands are eligible for PILT payments?", "How a...
GAO_GAO-12-551
{ "title": [ "Background", "The U.S. Import Process", "CBP Uses a Three- Part Process to Detect and Deter AD/CV Duty Evasion", "External Obstacles and Gaps in Information Sharing Hamper CBP Efforts to Address Evasion", "CBP Faces Challenges Mostly Beyond Its Control in Proving Evasion Has Occurred...
{ "question": [ "What does the U.S. Customs and Border Protection do?", "How does CBP detect evasion?", "How does CBP take enforcement action?", "What challenges affect CBP's efforts to gather evidence of evasion?", "How could communication between CBP and the Department of Commerce improve proces...
CRS_R43130
{ "title": [ "", "Key Current Issue: Elections", "Introduction: U.S. Relations with South Africa", "Country Overview", "Politics and Governance Under President Zuma", "The ANC and Other Political Parties", "2014 Elections", "The Zuma/ANC Agenda: Policy Approaches and Challenges", "...
{ "question": [ "What led to South Africa holding its first universal suffrage elections in 1994?", "Why is Nelson Mandela famous in South Africa?", "Why is South Africa influential regionally?", "How has the U.S. worked with South Africa to solve foreign policy differences?", "What issues were ad...
CRS_RL34074
{ "title": [ "", "Overview", "Palestinian National Identity and Aspirations", "U.S.-Palestinian Tensions", "Changes to Diplomatic Facilities", "Closure of PLO Office in Washington, DC", "Merger: U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem into U.S. Embassy to Israel", "Issues for Congress", ...
{ "question": [ "Why did U.S.-Palestine tensions increase?", "What was Palestine's response to the U.S.'s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital?", "What actions has the PLO taken against the United States?", "Why did the PLO advocate the Palestinian cause in international fora?", "How have ...
GAO_GAO-15-241T
{ "title": [ "Much Work Remains to Improve the Quality of Federal Spending Data", "Congress and the Administration Have Acted to Make More Data Available and Accessible", "Persistent USASpending.gov Challenges Highlight the Need for Strong Leadership of DATA Act Implementation", "DATA Act Implementati...
{ "question": [ "What are the initial implementation efforts focused on?", "What do the efforts include?", "What are the key technical issues that effective implementation will need to address?", "What does GAO report on its annual audit to the U.S. government?", "What did almost all Chief Financi...
GAO_GAO-18-379
{ "title": [ "Background", "Selected Stakeholders Cited Ongoing Interoperability, Funding, and Training Challenges", "Interoperability Challenges", "Technical Challenges", "Non-Technical Challenges", "Challenges with Training and Exercises", "Funding Challenges", "Stakeholders Indicate...
{ "question": [ "What kind of challenges did selected first responders and public safety officials identify?", "What are the various challenges related to emergency communications?", "What did some stakeholders say about these challenges?", "What has helped stakeholders with their emergency communicat...
CRS_R43543
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Background", "Amphibious Ships in General", "Roles and Missions", "Types of Amphibious Ships", "Amphibious Lift Goal", "Current and Projected Force Levels", "Existing LSD-41/49 Class Ships", "LPD-17 Flight II Program", "Program Name", "...
{ "question": [ "What is the Navy's plan for LPD-17 Flight II amphibious ships?", "Why did Congress provide $350 million in unrequested advance procurement (AP) funding for the Navy?", "How were the FY2019 and FY2020 budgets consistent with each other?", "What does the Navy's FY2020 budget show about ...
GAO_GAO-18-422
{ "title": [ "Background", "Biodefense Roles and Responsibilities", "The Federal Select Agent Program", "DOD’s Designated Infrastructure Manager for CBDP, Including BSAT", "BSAT Policies and Guidance", "The Army’s Investigation into the May 2015 Dugway Incident", "BBPO Has Not Yet Develope...
{ "question": [ "How did DOD address the 35 recommendations from the Army's 2015 investigation report on the inadvertent shipments of live Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)?", "What has DOD not done in relation to these actions?", "What is the benefit of measuring the effectiveness of these actions?", "Wha...
CRS_R43788
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "FY2015 Defense Budget Overview", "FY2015 OCO Budget Request Highlights", "The Initial Placeholder", "June 2014 OCO Request", "Ebola-related Funding Addition", "Increase to Counter Islamic State (IS)", "Historical Context", "Mandatory Spending C...
{ "question": [ "How did the congressional action on the FY2015 Department of Defense (DOD) \"base budget\" compare with the previous year?", "Why was not FY2015 DOD \"base budget\" complicated by disputes over the total amount at issue?", "What fact did the narrow range of disagreements reflect?", "W...
CRS_R44102
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Provisions of S. 556", "Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, and Recreational Shooting", "Definitions", "Definition of Federal Public Land", "Definition of Hunting", "Definition of Recreational Fishing", "Definition of Recreational Shooting", "Managemen...
{ "question": [ "What have been the subjects of various bills for several Congresses?", "How does federal land management agencies manage hunting, fishing, trapping, and recreational shooting?", "What criticism has been in recent years regarding federal land management for hunting?", "How has the 114t...
GAO_GAO-13-765T
{ "title": [ "Background", "Expanded Use of Strategic Sourcing Could Save Billions in Federal Procurement Costs", "Barriers to Strategic Sourcing", "Agencies Are Reluctant to Apply Strategic Sourcing to Purchase of Services", "Leading Company Practices Generate Significant Savings by Strategically...
{ "question": [ "What did most of the agencies GAO reviewed leverage for their September 2012 report?", "How did the Departments of Defense (DOD), Homeland Security, Energy, and Veterans Affairs (VA) leverage a fraction of their buying power?", "How did the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative leverage a...
CRS_R42427
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Public vs. Private Markets", "SEC's Regulation D9", "Advantages and Disadvantages of Going Public or Remaining Private", "Advantages of Remaining Private", "Advantages of a Public Listing", "The JOBS Act of the 112th Congress", "Title I. Reopening ...
{ "question": [ "How has the decline of IPOs caused discussion?", "What factors caused IPO decline?", "What factors past regulatory factors may have caused IPO decline?", "What were some of these significant changes in securities market infrastructure?", "What is the JOBS Act?", "How does it l...
CRS_R40162
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction: Recent Challenges for Periodical Publishers", "Postage Subsidies for Periodicals, 1792-1969", "Rationales and Policies", "Reduced Access to Postage Subsidies for Periodicals", "Postage Subsidies for Periodicals and the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act", "Subsi...
{ "question": [ "Why would the 111th Congress be asked to assist with the US Postal service?", "What similarly happened with the 110th Congress?", "Why would Congress assisting with postage be reasonable?", "What historically supports this?", "What does this report cover?", "Why have such poli...
GAO_GAO-18-42
{ "title": [ "Background", "Agencies Are to Follow Federal Requirements for Acquisitions", "Federal Law Establishes Agency IT Management Responsibilities", "OMB Established Guidance for Agencies to Implement FITARA", "Agencies Identified $14.7 Billion in IT Obligations, but Did Not Identify an Add...
{ "question": [ "How well did agencies cover their IT contracts?", "What IT contracts did the agencies have?", "How does this differ from the actual amount of IT contracts for these agencies?", "What was the percentage difference between what was reported?", "How well did the Department of State r...
CRS_RL30387
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "The FERS Basic Retirement Annuity", "Retirement Age and Service Requirements", "Calculating the FERS Basic Retirement Annuity", "Salary Base", "Accrual Rate", "Social Security and the \"FERS Supplement\"", "Cost-of-Living Adjustments", "The Thr...
{ "question": [ "What did the Social Security Amendments of 1983 require?", "Why did Congress direct a new retirement plan?", "What act did this result in?", "What is the FERS?", "What determines the basic retirement annuity of FERS?", "What is the FERS salary base?", "What is the FERS acc...
CRS_RL33587
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "MSP and Employer Group Health Plans", "Working Aged", "Workers in Group Health Plans with Less Than 20 Employees", "Working Disabled", "Persons with End-Stage Renal Disease", "COBRA", "MSP and Non-Group Insurance", "No-Fault and Liability Insur...
{ "question": [ "What is Medicare?", "What are the parts of Medicare?", "What does Medicare pay for?", "What does insurance pay for when Medicare is used?", "When would Medicare not pay for a service?", "Why was MSP initiated?", "How much do private insurers pay in the wake of Medicare?", ...
CRS_R44506
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "The GSEs and Conservatorship", "FHFA Reforms", "Risk-Sharing Transactions13", "Amount of Risk Shared", "Risk-Sharing Methods", "S. 1484 and Risk-Sharing Policy Issues", "Common Securitization Platform", "Development of the CSP", "S. 1484 an...
{ "question": [ "What is the CSP?", "What issues exist with the current MBS issuing process?", "How does FHFA plan to create a new MBS issuing process?", "What aspects of the CSP interest Congress?", "What is the Single Security?", "How are MBS's currently administered?", "How would the Si...
CRS_R45009
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "FY2018 Budget and Appropriations Actions", "Research and Related Activities (RRA)", "Education and Human Resources (EHR)", "Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC)", "Other Accounts and Initiatives", "Authorizations of Appropriatio...
{ "question": [ "What level of NSF funding is the Trump Administration seeking?", "What appropriations accounts does NSF control?", "Which appropriations accounts would the FY2018 request primarily affect?", "Which appropriations accounts would only see minor changes?", "How would H.R. 3267 affect...
CRS_R45418
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Student Eligibility and Program Award Rules", "Student Eligibility", "Underlying Concepts and Award Rules", "Award Year", "Academic Year", "Payment Period", "Discretionary Base Maximum Award", "Mandatory Add-On Award", "Total Maximum Award"...
{ "question": [ "How does the federal government distribute postsecondary education grant aid?", "How commonly are Pell Grants awarded?", "What is the role of Pell Grants in federal student aid?", "What requirements exist for Pell Grant eligibility?", "How is financial need determined?", "What...
CRS_R40154
{ "title": [ "", "Chapter 1. Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Signatures and Detection", "What Is to Be Detected?", "Photons 101", "What signatures show the presence of nuclear weapons and SNM?", "Atomic number and density", "Opacity to photons", "Radioactivity", "How Does Detection ...
{ "question": [ "How can nuclear weapons be detected?", "What does SNM emit?", "How can SNM be detected?", "To what extent can SNM be shielded to prevent detection?", "To what extent can new detection technology capabilities be predicted?", "At what step in the process should programs be accel...
GAO_GAO-14-179
{ "title": [ "Background", "Homeowners Insurance Policies", "Cost of Insurance to Homeowners", "State Regulation of Insurance", "Risk Management by Insurers", "Government Involvement in Homeowners Insurance", "Policies Cover and Exclude Various Perils Based on Policy Provisions and Other F...
{ "question": [ "What damages are typically covered by homeowners insurance policies?", "Why are these perils insurable?", "What perils are typically not covered?", "Why are these perils not covered?", "What other damages are excluded?", "What effects do policy exclusions have?", "How is t...
GAO_GAO-19-217
{ "title": [ "Background", "OPM Attributes Processing Delays to Paper-Based Applications, Staffing, and Missing Information in Applications", "OPM Conducts Limited Assessments of Its Processing Operation and Assistance to Agencies", "IT Modernization Plan Remains Unclear", "OPM Lacks Performance I...
{ "question": [ "What does OPM's strategic vision consist of?", "What are the estimated costs and time frames of these initiatives?", "What factors does additional IT modernization work rely on?", "How do these factors affect OPM's ability to estimate costs and time ranges?", "What actions has OPM...
GAO_GAO-15-16
{ "title": [ "Background", "IRA Types", "Rollovers from Employer Plans", "IRA Investments", "IRS Enforcement and Taxpayer Service", "Few Taxpayers Had Reported IRA Balances Greater Than $5 Million", "Most Taxpayers with IRAs Have IRA Balances of $1 Million or Less", "Taxpayers with IRA...
{ "question": [ "How widely are IRA accounts used?", "How common are accounts with aggregated balances exceeding $5 million?", "What characteristics do most of these account holders share?", "How could an account accumulate over $5 million?", "What limits exist on IRA accumulations and rollovers?"...
CRS_RL34019
{ "title": [ "", "Background", "Legislative History", "Policy Issues", "Possible Policy Options for Congress", "Summary of Academic and Industry Studies", "Approach and Scope", "General Conclusions", "Production and Market Factors", "Other Comments and Considerations" ], "p...
{ "question": [ "What is the relationship between crop planting decisions and federal subsidy payments?", "Despite the touted flexibility of the program, in what ways are there still restrictions?", "How are these restrictions being challenged?", "What was the intended purpose of the fruit and vegetab...
CRS_R43040
{ "title": [ "", "Prohibiting Mental Health Factors Under the Gun Control Act of 1968", "Adjudication as a Mental Defective", "Commitment to a Mental Institution", "Emergency Admission or Hospitalization", "DOJ Proposal to Amend \"Adjudicated as a Mental Defective\" and \"Committed to a Mental...
{ "question": [ "Why have questions surrounding background checks increased of late?", "What role do background checks play in firearm purchases?", "What has been a particular focus of debate regarding privacy standards and the NICS?", "What does the GCA stipulate for persons adjudicated to be mentall...
CRS_R42513
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "What Is Spent (Used) Fuel?", "How Is Spent Fuel Stored Now?", "Where Is Spent Nuclear Fuel Located Now in the United States?", "SNF Management by the U.S. Department of Energy", "Hazards and Potential Risks Associated with SNF Storage", "Options for St...
{ "question": [ "What was the purpose of the planned geologic repository at Yucca Mountain?", "What problems arose regarding the project?", "How long would it take to remove the existing SNF from interim storage?", "How long would extended SNF storage potentially last?", "What does the debate arou...
GAO_GAO-12-340
{ "title": [ "Background", "Statutory Requirements for Submitting SARs to Congress", "DOD’s Guidance for Implementing the Statutory SAR Requirements", "DOD’s Process and Schedule for Preparing SARs", "DOD’s Reports to Congress on Estimated Weapon System O&S Costs Were Inconsistent and Sometimes Un...
{ "question": [ "What is the quality of the DOD's reports to Congress on estimated weapon system costs?", "In what ways did GAO find inconsistencies with the reporting?", "To what extent was not reporting O&S costs for an antecedent system a problem?", "In what other ways did program offices not incor...
GAO_GAO-15-119
{ "title": [ "Background", "Identity Theft Refund Fraud – Key Components", "IRS’s Current IDT Refund Fraud Response", "IRS’s Efforts to Identify and Monitor the Extent of IDT Refund Fraud", "Administration Prioritizes Identity Theft and Authentication Efforts", "Taxonomy Met Several Best Pract...
{ "question": [ "To what extent does the IRS examine the cost assumptions used to develop estimates?", "Why wasn't the rationale documented?", "How does this compare to best practices?", "How would documenting rationale help the IRS?", "How is the IRS centralizing taxpayer authentication systems?"...
CRS_R41335
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Effects of the Proposals on Current Law", "Alternative Approaches to Reform" ], "paragraphs": [ "", "In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford signed the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq .; TSCA). Thirty-five years of experience with TSCA implem...
{ "question": [ "What was S. 3209?", "What similar legislation has been introduced in the House?", "What does this report examine?", "How would these bills shift the burden of demonstrating safety?", "What type of safety standard do these bills suggest using?", "How does this compare to curren...
GAO_GAO-15-10
{ "title": [ "Background", "Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff", "Military Departments", "Authorized Positions at DOD Headquarters Organizations We Reviewed Have Generally Increased since Fiscal Year 2001, and Plans for Future Reductions are Not Finalized", "Number of Authorize...
{ "question": [ "How do DOD headquarters organizations determine personnel requirements?", "How were current personnel levels determined?", "How do current personnel levels compare to those established in the limits?", "How practical are these limits for current use?", "How are DOD headquarters or...
CRS_R45135
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Power Grid Threat Environment", "NERC's Physical Security Standards", "Physical Security Standard Requirements", "Federal Oversight and Support", "NERC's Implementation Oversight", "Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center", "FERC Oversi...
{ "question": [ "How did the 2013 rifle attack affect the U.S. electric power sector?", "What effects did the attack have in Congress and at FERC?", "How has the risk to the electrical grid changed since Metcalf?", "What action is Congress taking regarding these risks?", "What agencies are respons...
CRS_RL32878
{ "title": [ "", "Cloture and the Consideration of Nominations", "Cloture Motions Do Not Correspond With Filibusters", "Frequency of Cloture Attempts on Nominations", "Historical Development of Cloture Attempts on Nominations", "Positions in Relation to Which Cloture Was Sought" ], "paragr...
{ "question": [ "How has the cloture rule changed in the past?", "To what extent did the reinterpretation of the rule change the use of cloture?", "To what extent is this report up to date?", "What can cloture be used for?", "What were the results of cloture attempts through 2013?", "To what e...
GAO_GAO-19-180
{ "title": [ "Background", "FATCA Data Limitations and Lack of a Comprehensive Strategy Have Hampered IRS Efforts to Increase Compliance", "Incomplete and Inaccurate Reporting of Taxpayer Identification Numbers by FFIs Has Limited IRS’s Efforts to Match Account Information for Compliance Purposes", "I...
{ "question": [ "What factors have limited the IRS's efforts to improve taxpayer compliance?", "What data quality issues are prevalent?", "What flaws are apparent in the IRS's data storage process?", "Why has the IRS stopped pursuing their plan to leverage FATCA data?", "How would more consistent ...
CRS_R41544
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "2010 Changes to the KORUS FTA", "Congressional Consideration of Implementing Bills", "Fast Track Consideration of the KORUS FTA", "Does the Bill Approve an Agreement \"Entered Into\" in 2007?", "Does the Bill Make \"Necessary and Appropriate\" Changes?", ...
{ "question": [ "What happened in 2007 with regards to U.S. and South Korean trade relations?", "How common are such trade agreements in the US?", "How was the agreement presented for Congressional approval?", "How have the results of these talks been memorialized?", "How is the KORUS FTA expected...
GAO_GAO-12-510T
{ "title": [ "Background", "DOD’s January 2012 Strategic Guidance on Defense Priorities", "DOD Did Not Clearly Identify Some Important Mobility Issues in the MCRS-16 and Its New Strategic Guidance Raises Questions", "Study Did Not Clearly Identify Shortfalls and Excesses in Air Mobility Systems", ...
{ "question": [ "What information did the MCRS-16 provide?", "What were flaws of MCRS-16's recommendations?", "How did MCRS-16 evaluate capabilities?", "How did GAO identify shortcomings?", "What new guidance has the DOD passed in 2012?", "What role does DOD strategic guidance play in its stud...
CRS_R45459
{ "title": [ "", "Crop Insurance Program Authority and Operation", "Overview of the Federal Crop Insurance Program", "Expansion of Coverage for Specialty Crops", "Specialty Crop Insured Coverage and Participation", "Definition of Specialty Crops", "Overview of Premiums, Product Introductio...
{ "question": [ "What does the federal crop insurance program do?", "How can farmers use the crop insurance program?", "To what extent are the policies uniform?", "How are the policies paid out?", "How are the policies administered?", "What crops does the crop insurance program cover?", "H...
CRS_RL32484
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Lost Jobs?", "Evidence from U.S. Multinational Companies", "Evidence from International Investment Flows", "Evidence from Employment Trends in the IT Sector", "Trade, Outsourcing, and Wages", "A Rising Level of Trade and Economic Well-Being", "Effe...
{ "question": [ "What is foreign outsourcing?", "How have global trade levels changed in the past 30 years?", "To what extent is this growth due to such outsourcing?", "To what extent is foreign outsourcing similar to traditional trade?", "How likely is it that this gain will be realized?", "H...
CRS_R41969
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "The Changing Global Economic Landscape", "Shifts in Global Production and Trade", "World GDP Rankings", "Qualifications to the GDP Projections", "Sources of World Growth", "Location of Global Manufacturing and Services", "Globalization of Productio...
{ "question": [ "How is the global economic landscape being shaped?", "How does this affect U.S. economic policy?", "How does this affect Congress' policy?", "How is global economic power changing?", "What are these changes driven by?", "How do these changes affect the finances of developing c...
GAO_GAO-14-323
{ "title": [ "Background", "Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe", "Uranium Mining and Processing on the Navajo Reservation and its Environmental Effects", "Exposure to Uranium and Its Health Effects", "Key Statutes Relevant to Addressing Uranium Contamination", "Federal and Tribal Agencies’ Roles and...
{ "question": [ "To what extent were the targets in the 2008 5-year plan met?", "Why were the targets met?", "Why were the remaining targets not met?", "How could these challenges further affect the BIA?", "To what extent has the remaining work been planned out?", "What did congressional decis...
CRS_R45525
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Budgetary Impact5", "Baseline", "Score", "Projected Outlays at Enactment", "Title-by-Title Summaries", "Commodities14", "Conservation17", "Working Lands Programs", "Land Retirement and Easement Programs", "Other Conservation Programs", ...
{ "question": [ "What are some of the mandatory spending programs outlined by the CBO?", "How does this compare with the extension of the 2014 farm bill?", "What does the CBO predict the outlays will amount to from the 2019 fiscal year to the 2023 fiscal year?", "What does the law do over the first fi...
CRS_RL33418
{ "title": [ "", "Final Developments", "Background", "Welfare Reauthorization Legislation", "Funding the TANF and Child Care Block Grants", "TANF Work Requirements", "1996 Law Work Participation Standard", "Revisions to TANF Work Participation Standards", "Child Support Enforcement...
{ "question": [ "How did the legislative attempts to reauthorize TAMF end?", "How did the original TANF law work?", "What happened to the law afterwards?", "What legislation did the Administration propose in February 2002?", "Why was there a debate following the plan's proposal?", "How does th...
CRS_R45083
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Report Roadmap and Useful Terminology", "Scope of the Report", "Important Budget Concepts", "Mandatory vs. Discretionary Budget Authority2", "Total Budget Authority Provided in the Bill vs. Total Budget Authority Available in the Fiscal Year", "FY2018 ...
{ "question": [ "What is the purpose of this report?", "What type of accounts are included in the bill?", "How does the bill address the HHS?", "How would the bill affect the SSA?", "How was the rescissions proposal introduced?", "How did the proposal address LHHS?", "What is the current s...
GAO_GAO-13-209
{ "title": [ "Background", "Application of Combat Casualty Care Research Findings", "Combat Casualty Care Research Capability Gaps and Funding", "DOD Uses a Coordinated Approach to Plan Its Combat Casualty Care Research and Development, but Not All of Its Organizations Share Information Early", "D...
{ "question": [ "How do DOD biomedical research organizations plan combat casualty care R&D?", "What were GAO's previous recommendations to DOD?", "How did DOD address the issue of combat casualty research in 2010?", "How was the draft charter completed?", "How did DOD facilitate operation across ...
GAO_GAO-16-792
{ "title": [ "Background", "Results of Undercover Attempts to Obtain Qualified Health-Plan Coverage from the Federal Marketplace and Selected State Marketplaces", "Results of Undercover Attempts to Obtain Medicaid Coverage through the Federal Marketplace and Selected State Marketplaces", "Details of M...
{ "question": [ "What was the conclusion of GAO's undercover testing in 2015?", "How did the Marketplace handle GAO's fictitious applications?", "How were the GAO applications designed to be fictitious?", "How did Medicaid handle GAO's applications?", "How did GAO design these applications to be f...
GAO_GAO-19-399
{ "title": [ "Background", "The Bureau Identified 360 Active Risks to the 2020 Census", "The Bureau Classified 21 Percent of Active Risks as High Priority", "The Bureau Determined That It Should Mitigate 67 Percent of Active Risks", "The Bureau Had Mitigation and Contingency Plans for Most Risks, ...
{ "question": [ "What potential issues is the 2020 Census facing?", "To what extent have plans been made for these issues?", "What do mitigation plans consist of?", "What do contingency plans consist of?", "According to Bureau guidance, how should these plans be developed?", "What plans did GA...
CRS_R45099
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Expiration of Certain NFIP Authorities", "Legislative Action in the 115th Congress", "Potential Issues for Consideration by Congress", "NFIP Debt and Solvency of the Program", "NFIP Premiums and Surcharges", "Premium Subsidies and Cross-Subsidies", ...
{ "question": [ "How was H.R. 2874 passed?", "How would H.R. 2874 affect the NFIP?", "What actions have the Senate taken to address the NFIP?", "What issues may Congress consider in the context of reauthorization?", "What flood insurance coverage changes has FEMA identified as a priority?", "T...
CRS_R43187
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Brief History of Cash Assistance", "Trends in the Number of Families Receiving Cash Assistance", "Trends in Caseload Characteristics: FY1988 to FY2013", "TANF Families by Category", "Characteristics of TANF Families, By Family Category: FY2013", "Numbe...
{ "question": [ "How does TANF address child poverty?", "What are the origins of TANF?", "What does this report examine?", "How has the caseload fluctuated?", "How have characteristics of the TANF cash assistance changed in this same time?", "How large are most cash assistance families?", ...
CRS_R40859
{ "title": [ "", "The Issues Before Congress", "Debate Over Spectrum Resources: The D Block", "FCC's Announced Plans for the D Block", "Legislation to Assign the D Block to Public Safety", "Legislation in Support of a Public Safety Network Without the D Block", "Communications Infrastructu...
{ "question": [ "What is the relationship between wireless communications and emergency responses?", "How important is the availability of radio frequency spectrum to communications networks?", "What other factors are critical to a modern communications network?", "What consensus is there regarding sp...
CRS_R43437
{ "title": [ "", "Introduction", "Background", "Controlled Substances Act Today", "Penalties", "Forfeiture", "Developments in the States", "Medical Marijuana Laws", "Patients", "Caregivers", "Dispensaries", "Retail Marijuana", "Decriminalization of Personal Possessi...
{ "question": [ "What are the consequences of a CSA violation?", "How may revenues and the properties used to generate them be affected?", "How does federal tax law affect marijuana entrepreneurs?", "What restrictions exist on banks' handling of marijuana-related transactions?", "What is the centr...