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As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on November 17, 2011

H.R. 1996 would make several amendments to the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), which allows plaintiffs to recover attorneys’ fees and other costs from the federal government when they prevail in a case against the government. Specifically, the legislation would increase the cap on hourly attorney rates, restrict who is eligible to receive EAJA awards, and impose new reporting requirements on the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS).

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As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on June 20, 2012

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The federal government provides credit assistance to individuals and businesses in the form of direct loans and through guarantees of loans made by private financial institutions. In a report requested by the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, CBO provides an illustrative analysis of the federal government’s costs for those credit programs following two approaches:

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The federal government supports some private activities by providing credit assistance to individuals and businesses. Some of that assistance is in the form of direct loans, and some, in the form of guarantees of loans made by private financial institutions. Although about a hundred federal programs provide such assistance, just a few programs provide more than three-quarters of it: specifically, the programs offering student loans, single-family mortgage guarantees, and direct loans and loan guarantees for small businesses.