WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Budget Office issued the following report on Dec. 10, 2025, entitled "Maintenance Delays for Conventional Navy Ships." Here are excerpts: * * * At a Glance The Navy has experienced chronic delays and labor overruns in maintenance on its large conventional ships (that is, ships that are not nuclear-powered). Those delays can affect deployment schedules and limit the operational readiness of the Navy's fleet. In this report, the Congressional  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Budget Office issued the following report on Dec. 10, 2025, entitled "Maintenance Delays for Conventional Navy Ships." (Continued from Part 2 of 3) * * * Chapter 3: The Causes and Consequences of Maintenance Delays The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of data on maintenance events for DDG-51 class destroyers from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2024 suggests that the Navy is experiencing two types of delays in relation to the ships' cl more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R47574) on Dec. 5, 2025, entitled "Debt Limit Policy Questions: What Are the Potential Economic Effects of a Binding Federal Debt Limit?" by acting section research manager Grant A. Driessen. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY Federal law prohibits the "face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the United States Government" from exceeding the statutory debt limit  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF13131) on Dec. 11, 2025, by health policy specialist Kavya Sekar. Here are excerpts: * * * NIH Grants Policy Under the Second Trump Administration Since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - the nation's leading health and medical research agency - changed grant polici more PR