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Congressional Research Service Reports
No full textSite includes selected Congressional Research Service reports, some with different editions. Each report is assigned subjects terms from the Legislative Indexing Vocabulary, supplemented with Library of Congress Subject Headings. Reports may be accessed through subject listings, or may be located through keyword searching
Congressional Research Service Reports
No full textSite includes selected Congressional Research Service reports, some with different editions. Each report is assigned subjects terms from the Legislative Indexing Vocabulary, supplemented with Library of Congress Subject Headings. Reports may be accessed through subject listings, or may be located through keyword searching
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Standardized Educational Test Scores
Get PDFCongressional Research Service (CRS) report entailing information about standardized educational test scores. Topics include, the American College Test (ACT), the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), controversies, etc.
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School Prayer
Get PDFCongressional Research Service (CRS) report entailing information about school prayer. Topics include, proposed amendments, news articles, coverage of the issue of school prayer from 1962 to 1982, etc.
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Congressional Research Services Studies in the Public Domain
No full textAbstract: "A subject listing of those Congressional Research service studies and reports which have been printed in some form by the U.S. Government printing office and have been made publicly available between June 1 and November 30, 1981.
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Automation and the Congressional Research Service
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Summaries of federal environmental laws administered by the Environmental Protection Agency
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Promoting global Internet freedom: policy and technology
Get PDFThis report provides information about US government and private sector efforts to promote and support global Internet freedom and a description of Internet freedom legislation and hearings from the 112th Congress.
Modern communication tools such as the Internet provide a relatively inexpensive, accessible, easy-entry means of sharing ideas, information, and pictures around the world. In a political and human rights context, in closed societies when the more established, formal news media is denied access to or does not report on specified news events, the Internet has become an alternative source of media, and sometimes a means to organize politically.
The openness and the freedom of expression allowed through social networking sites, as well as the blogs, video sharing sites, and other tools of today’s communications technology, have proven to be an unprecedented and often disruptive force in some closed societies. Governments that seek to maintain their authority and control the ideas and information their citizens receive are often caught in a dilemma: they feel that they need access to the Internet to participate in commerce in the global market and for economic growth and technological development, but fear that allowing open access to the Internet potentially weakens their control over their citizens.
Internet freedom can be promoted in two ways, through legislation that mandates or prohibits certain activities, or through industry self regulation. Current legislation under consideration by Congress, the Global Online Freedom Act of 2011 (H.R. 3605), would prohibit or require reporting of the sale of Internet technologies and provision of Internet services to “Internetrestricting countries” (as determined by the State Department). Some believe, however, that technology can offer a complementary and, in some cases, better and more easily implemented solution to ensuring Internet freedom. They argue that hardware and Internet services, in and of themselves, are neutral elements of the Internet; it is how they are implemented by various countries that is repressive. Also, Internet services are often tailored for deployment to specific countries; however, such tailoring is done to bring the company in line with the laws of that country, not with the intention of allowing the country to repress and censor its citizenry. In many cases, that tailoring would not raise many questions about free speech and political repression.
This report provides information about federal and private sector efforts to promote and support global Internet freedom and a description of Internet freedom legislation and hearings from the 112th Congress. Three appendixes suggest further reading on this topic and describe censorship and circumvention technologies
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The Congressional Research Service of the United States Congress
No full textThis report details the history and purpose of the Congressional Research Service of the United States Congress
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The Congressional Research Service and the American Legislative Process [1]
Get PDFThis report includes a description of the Congressional Research Service and it's benefits to the American Legislative Proces
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