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Protecting Those Who Safeguard the Rule of Law: A Call for Legislative Action
In his June 4, 2025 article for The Washington Post, technology columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler explores the capabilities of leading AI chatbots in comprehending and summarizing complex texts. Titled “5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest , and it wasn’t ChatGPT,” the piece details a comprehensive evaluation of five AI tools: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Meta AI, and Gemini across diverse domains including literature, law, health science, and politics. Fowler’s investigation reveals that while some AI responses were impressively insightful, others were notably flawed, highlighting the varying degrees of reliability among these tools. Notably, Claude emerged as the top performer, demonstrating consistent accuracy and depth of understanding across the tested subjects.css.washingtonpost.com+1washingtonpost.com+1
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Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Report, June 5, 2025.
CBO estimates that debt-service costs under H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, would total $551 billion over the 2025–2034 period—increasing the bill’s cumulative effect on the deficit to $3.0 trillion.
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PRESS RELEASE, May 23, 2025
In a May 23, 2025 Press Release the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and the Special Libraries Association (SLA) announced that they have entered into formal
negotiations to pursue a merger of the two organizations. According to the Press Release this initiative reflects a shared commitment to strengthening the future of the information professions and delivering expanded value to members of both communities
As ordered by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 25, 2025.
From the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) :
H.R. 1295 would reauthorize and expand through December 2026 the authority for the President to develop a government reorganization plan and submit that plan to the Congress under an expedited legislative procedure. Under the bill, such a plan could include reducing the federal workforce, decreasing the cost and burden of regulatory compliance, and eliminating government operations that are not in the public interest. The bill also would expand the number of agencies subject to such a reorganization.
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Congressional Budget Office’s transparency efforts are intended to promote a thorough understanding of its work, help people gauge how estimates might change if policies or circumstances differed, and enhance the credibility of its analyses and processes
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Transparency is a top priority for the Congressional Budget Office, and the agency continues to bolster its efforts to be transparent. Those efforts are intended to promote a thorough understanding of CBO’s work, help people gauge how estimates might change if policies or circumstances differed, and enhance the credibility of the agency’s analyses and processes.
Report-April 11, 2025.
The Congressional Budget Office* “(CBO) provides an overview of federal tax credits that support investment in wind and solar electric power. The agency also explains how it assesses the credits’ budgetary and economic effects and how its baseline reflects JCT’s revenue estimates.”
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April 10, 2025, Report
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analyzed the effects of an alternative budget scenario in which certain provisions of the 2017 tax act were extended permanently and revenues were reduced by additional amounts.
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