Another challenge in comparing funding from one year to the next is the changes in appropriation accounts that constitute funding for VHA. The following examples illustrate the inherent complexities when trying to compare funding. Historically, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have funded VH...
However, the FY2023 LHHS appropriations act specified that $273 million in base funding “is provided to meet the terms of a concurrent resolution on the budget in the Senate” (P.L. 117-328, p. 448). For an alternative tabulation of this adjustment based on relevant procedures, see CBO...
This report offers an overview of actions taken by Congress and the President to provide FY2019 appropriations for accounts funded by the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) appropriations bill. This bill includes all accounts funded through th...
2021, Israel altered its export licensing policy for cybersecurity software, requiring purchasers to pledge they wil not use Israeli equipment to commit “terrorist acts” or “serious crime,” as defined by DECA.23 The United States and Israel are in the process of gradually phasing out ...
The structure of Russian production more closely resembles that of an open economy than of a militarized economy. For example, the services sector, once a minor part of Soviet economy, has emerged in the post-Soviet Russian economy and now accounts for more than half of national output. ...
policy leaves the Taiwan question to be resolved by the people on both sides of the strait: a "peaceful resolution" with the assent of Taiwan's people and without unilateral changes. In short, U.S. policy focuses on the process of resolution of the Taiwan question, not any set outcome. ...
The case involved an e-mail service provider, Interloc, Inc., that sold out-of-print books. According to press accounts(21)and the text of the court's ruling,(22)Interloc used software code to intercept and copy e-mail messages sent to its subscribers (who were dealers looking for buye...
Congress in 2004 approved a comprehensive intelligence reform bill that included a "Sense of Congress" resolution calling for the establishment of an open source center which would collect, analyze, produce, and disseminate open-source intelligence.34The resolution described open source intelligence as ...