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Poland, a geopolitically significant and strategic member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Europe’s border with Russia, is a close and important ally of the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin, like his authoritarian counterparts in Communist China, has been exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to expand geopolitical influence. If Poland becomes economically unstable after the pandemic, it will be at a time when its alliance with NATO and the United States is of unpara...

This week, the Senate is expected to consider a four-bill “minibus” appropriations package that would combine the Interior and Environment and Financial Services and General Government package that passed the House last week with the Senate’s version of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Related Agencies, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies appropriations bills.

More than 12,000 families across Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee, are using education savings accounts (ESAs) to pay for personal tutors, education therapists, private school tuition, and textbooks, to name a few possible uses. Lawmakers in Nevada and North Carolina have enacted similar laws.

Due to worker illnesses and even deaths, there is a bottleneck at meat-processing plants impacting the entire meat supply. Livestock and poultry farmers have been faced with the problem of not having a destination for their animals. Unfortunately, this has led to farmers euthanizing animals.

In April, President Donald Trump proposed a broad outline of his preferred tax reform plan. His plan would cut taxes on the individual side of the tax code by an estimated $3.8 trillion over 10 years. On the individual side, the proposal:

The 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act spawned approximately 400 separate rulemakings across the financial sector, and was the most extensive financial regulatory bill since the 1930s.

The tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has brought a renewed focus on federal, state, and local policies pertaining to school safety. This Issue Brief reviews general state practices to maintain safe schools and federal education programs that fund and shape some local school practices.

With an apocalyptic warning that “[c]limate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to Europe and the world,”REF the European Commission rolled out its “European Green New Deal” in December 2019. The road map, modeled broadly after the U.S.

When it comes to cutting government waste and reducing spending, the THUD appropriations bill is a great place to start.

Both Houses of Congress have completed their versions of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). With wide bipartisan support (351 to 66) the House passed their version on May 24, 2018.