WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R47571) on May 24, 2023, entitled "Involuntary Civil Commitment - Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Protections:" (Continued from Part 1 of 3) * * * The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause: Protections for People with Serious Mental Illness The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause48 provides certain protections against laws that restrict an individual's life, liberty, or property./49 While sta  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Senate Budget Committee issued the following testimony by Bruce R. Bartlett, ex-deputy assistant secretary of Treasury for economic policy, involving a hearing on May 17, 2023, entitled "The Rich Get Richer, Deficits Get Bigger: How Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Corporations Drive the National Debt": * * * Bruce Bartlett was formerly a prominent Republican economist deeply involved in tax policy; he is now an independent. For some years he has thought that Republicans   more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security issued the following testimony by Steve Denny, deputy director of Four County Mental Health Center Inc., involving a hearing on May 17, 2023, entitled "A Crisis in Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Care: Closing Gaps in Access by Bringing Care and Prevention to Communities": * * * Chairman Markey and Senator Marshall, thank you for the opportunity to testify befo  more