WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. RS20871) entitled "Iran Sanctions". Here are excerpts of the report issued on Nov. 18 and written by Kenneth Katzman, specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs: Successive Administrations and Congresses have used economic sanctions to try to change Iran's behavior. U.S. sanctions on Iran, which are primarily "secondary sanctions" on firms that conduct certain transactions with Iran, have adversely affected Ira more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (TNSRep) -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following news release: Federal and state courts have historically failed to reflect the racial, ethnic and gender diversity of the United States, with a significantly higher proportion of white and male judges on the federal bench than the reflected population, a new brief released by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law finds. The brief analyzes presidential tendencies to consistently app more PR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -- The U.S. Department of State issued the following media note on Nov. 17: The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Volume XI, Part 1, Iran: Hostage Crisis, November 1979-September 1980. This volume is part of a Foreign Relations subseries that documents the foreign policy decisions of the administration of President Jimmy Carter. The volume documents the Carter administration's efforts to resolve the U.S.-Iranian crisis ove more PR