The treatment of Social Security in the federal budget is often confusing. In legislation enacted in 1983, 1985, and 1990, Social Security was excluded from official budget calculations and largely exempted it from congressional procedures for controlling budget revenues and expenditures. However, because Social Security represents more than a fifth of federal revenues and expenditures, it often is included in summaries of the government's financial flows, or what is referred to as the "unified" budget.

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This report outlines several ways in which dropout rates are measured and reported.

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The purpose of this report is to provide detailed information on each of the programs administered by the Corporation. This includes a description of the services provided, individual eligibility requirements, and the FY2002 funding level.

This report discusses unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), also called “spam” or “junk e-mail.” Not only can it be a nuisance, but its cost may be passed on to consumers through higher charges from Internet service providers who must upgrade their systems to handle the traffic.

This report discusses the statutory and regulatory requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), judicial decisions, and the concept of mediation as it applies to special education.

This report provides current and historical information on the budget resolution. It provides a list of the budget resolutions adopted and rejected by Congress since implementation of the CBA, including the Statutes-at-Large citations and committee report numbers, and describes their formulation and content.

This report describes the National Science Foundation (NSF) that was created by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (P.L. 81-507).

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This report provides an overview of the changing expectations and regulations of internet banking.

This report examines The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which is funded by fees collected from customers. However, appropriation measures limit USPTO use of all fees accumulated within a fiscal year. Critics of this approach argue that because agency operations are supported by payments for services, all fees are necessary to fund these services in the year they are provided.

This report briefly describes the budget sequestration process, including the ways in which a sequester could be avoided under the regular process, and then discusses in more detail various techniques that have been used since FY1991 to prevent a sequester by intervening in the regular process.

This report sets out the baseline emissions that the U.S. has established and portrays trends in emission over the past decade.

This report contains an overview of the current policy issues on China's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missiles.

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This report describes Native Lands and State Waters related to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR) oil.

This report is on Anti-Hoax Legislation in the 107th Congress: Addressing Problems since September 2001.

This report consists of campaign finance reform with a legal analysis of issue and express advocacy.

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