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- FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) reauthorization and user-fee share of drug review (CRS R42508) (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Congressional Research Service
CRS's PDUFA report documenting that industry user fees fund more than 60% of FDA's human drug review budget (per FDA official testimony), the structural funding link…
- FDA: Breakthrough Devices Program
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The FDA's description of its Breakthrough Devices Program, which speeds review for certain devices. The FDA says devices must still meet the normal standards for marketing…
- FDA: Food Safety and Raw Milk
Government Record
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA's consumer page: says FDA banned interstate raw milk sales in 1987, counts 143 reported outbreaks since then, and says it does not regulate sales within…
- FDA: OxyContin Label Revision, NDA 20-553/S-022 (2001)
Government Record · 2001
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA's 2001 OxyContin label update: stronger warnings saying the drug has an abuse risk similar to morphine and must not be broken, chewed or crushed.
- FDA: PDUFA Reauthorization Public Meeting (2026)
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA, August 2026: opened the process to renew the drug user fee program for 2028 to 2032. FDA notes that without new legislation it can no…
- FDA: PDUFA VII Performance Goals, Fiscal Years 2023 to 2027 (2022)
Government Record · 2022
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA, 2022: the commitment letter behind the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. It sets the review deadlines and procedures FDA promises the drug industry in exchange…
- FDA: Ractopamine Approval Rule (2000)
Government Record · 2000
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA, January 2000: the Federal Register notice adding ractopamine to the list of approved animal feed drugs, effective from its December 1999 approval.
- FDA: The Dangers of Raw Milk
Government Record
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA's warning page: cites CDC counts of 202 outbreaks, 2,645 illnesses and 228 hospitalizations linked to raw milk from 1998 to 2018. The agencies' own figures…
- FDA: Timeline of FDA Actions on Substance Use and Overdose Prevention
Government Record
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA timeline: says that in July 2001 FDA added stronger misuse warnings and a boxed warning to the OxyContin label, and that Purdue agreed to a…
- FDA: Withdrawal of Approval for Vioxx (2022)
Government Record · 2022
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA, September 2022: formally withdrew Vioxx's approval and states that Merck voluntarily pulled Vioxx from the market on September 30, 2004.
- FDIC Annual Report 2025
Government Record · 2025
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The annual report was opened for updated SVB/Signature DIF estimates and assessment accounting. A concise excerpt was not retained, so it is not used for a…
- FDIC Banking Review: The Cost of the Savings and Loan Crisis (2000)
Government Record · 2000
Timothy Curry and Lynn Shibut (FDIC staff)
FDIC economists Curry and Shibut, 2000: 1,043 savings and loans failed from 1986 to 1995. The cleanup cost $152.9 billion, of which taxpayers paid $123.8 billion…
- FDIC’s Supervision of First Republic Bank
Government Record · 2023
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The report was opened for First Republic’s assumption and DIF consequences. A concise passage was not retained; unlike WaMu, First Republic involved a multibillion-dollar estimated DIF…
- FEC Advisory Opinion 2010-09: Club for Growth (2010)
Government Record · 2010
Federal Election Commission
Federal Election Commission, July 2010: allowed Club for Growth to run a committee that takes unlimited individual contributions for independent spending. The first Super PAC approval.
- FEC Advisory Opinion 2010-11: Commonsense Ten (2010)
Government Record · 2010
Federal Election Commission
Federal Election Commission, July 2010: allowed independent-spending committees to take unlimited contributions from corporations and labor unions as well as individuals.
- FEC Commissioner Steven Walther: Statement on Advisory Opinion 2010-09 (2010)
Government Record · 2010
FEC Commissioner Steven T. Walther
FEC Commissioner Steven Walther, July 2010: his statement on the Club for Growth opinion, describing how the SpeechNow ruling struck down contribution limits as applied to…
- FEC MUR 6920 Conciliation Agreement (American Conservative Union, Government Integrity LLC, Now or Never PAC, James C. Thomas III)
Government Record · 2017
Federal Election Commission
Signed FEC conciliation agreement in a straw-donor case: $1.8 million moved from a newly formed LLC to the American Conservative Union, a 501(c)(4), which then gave…
- FEC Notice 2025-01: Price Index Adjustments for Contribution and Expenditure Limitations and Lobbyist Bundling Disclosure Threshold
Government Record · 2025
Federal Election Commission
Federal Election Commission notice in the Federal Register setting the inflation-adjusted contribution limits for the 2025-2026 cycle and the lobbyist bundling disclosure threshold.
- FEC: Campaign Activity Summary, 2011 to 2012 Cycle (2013)
Government Record · 2013
Federal Election Commission
Federal Election Commission, 2013: in the 2012 cycle, Super PACs raised $824 million and spent $796.9 million, accounting for $606.8 million of independent political spending.
- FEC: Campaign Activity Summary, 2019 to 2020 Cycle (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Federal Election Commission
Federal Election Commission, 2021: in the 2020 cycle, 2,319 Super PACs spent $3.39 billion, and accounted for $2 billion of independent political spending.
- FEC: Campaign Activity Summary, 2023 to 2024 Cycle (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Federal Election Commission
Federal Election Commission, 2025: in the 2024 cycle, independent spending reached $4.4 billion. 2,526 Super PACs spent $5.01 billion and accounted for $2.7 billion of independent…
- Federal Government Contractor Sentenced for Removing and Transmitting Classified Materials to News Outlet
Government Record · 2018
U.S. Department of Justice
Reality Winner was sentenced in August 2018 to five years and three months (63 months) in prison plus three years of supervised release for removing classified…
- Federal Jury Convicts Mayor of Portage, Ind., of Corruption Charge
Government Record · 2019
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Indiana
Snyder’s tax-obstruction conviction was separate from the §666 bribery count addressed by the Supreme Court.
- Federal Reserve Act Section 5: Reserve Bank Stock Rules
Government Record
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Act, Section 5: member banks hold stock in their regional Reserve Bank, and those shares cannot be sold, transferred or pledged. The stock is…