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This report discusses possible paths toward the modernization of the 911 emergency response system's infrastructure.

Today's 911 system is built on an infrastructure of analog technology that does not support many of the features that most Americans expect are part of an emergency response. Efforts to splice newer, digital technologies onto this aging infrastructure have created points of failure where a call can be dropped or misdirected, sometimes with tragic consequences. This report discusses efforts to modernize and update 911 emergency response technology, the funding for such efforts, and related pieces of legislation.

This report discusses possible paths toward the modernization of the 911 emergency response system's infrastructure.

This report discusses resolution of inquiry, which is a measure that formally calls on the executive branch to provide specified factual information to Congress.

This report contains the awards of attorneys' fees by federal courts and federal agencies. Most Supreme Court decisions involves attorney's fees that have interpreted civil right statutes and this report focuses on these statutes.

This report provides information on the amount of time taken to act on all Supreme Court nominations occurring between 1900 and the present. It focuses on the actual amounts of time that Presidents and the Senate have taken to act (as opposed to the elapsed time between official points in the process). This report focuses on when the Senate became aware of the President's selection (e.g., via a public announcement by the President).

This report provides background information about Saudi Arabia and analyzes current issues in U.S.-Saudi relations.

This report provides an overview of federal law governing wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping. It also appends citations to state law in the area and contains a bibliography of legal commentary as well as the text of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This report also includes a brief summary of the recently expired Protect America Act, P.L. 110-55 and of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, P.L. 110-261 (H.R. 6304).