A document that acknowledges an increasing number of people who are elderly in the Unite States. It discusses impacts that this causes as well as ways to adjust to this demographic shift.

This report provides a brief summary of China's economic policy, and tactics the Chinese government uses to reduce inflation of Chinese currency.

This report is about ARPA-E and the budget requests for the Fiscal year 2016.

This report focuses on President Obama’s new policy approach regarding Cuba.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate designating Dripping Springs as the Wedding Capital of Texas.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to canine encounter training for peace officers.

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate in memory of El Paso Constable Robert Parker White.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the exclusive jurisdiction of this state to regulate oil and gas operations in this state and the express preemption of local regulation of those operations.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to corporations and fundamental business transactions.

This report describes and analyzes U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) role in the U.S. import process. The first section of the report describes the three overarching goals of U.S. import policy and the tension among them. Second, the report summarizes recent legislative developments and provides a legislative history of customs laws, followed by an overview of the U.S. import process as it operates today. Third, the import process and CBP's role in it are discussed.

This report examines motions to proceed to consider items of legislative business ("measures"); it does not cover nominations or treaties ("executive business"). Motions to proceed to legislative business are normally debatable unless the underlying measure is "privileged," which includes conference reports and measures subject to statutory expedited procedures. The data in this report do not distinguish between debatable and non-debatable motions to proceed.