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Financial Innovation: Digital Assets and Initial Coin Offerings
Resources · Oct 17, 2018
This In Focus provides an overview of policy issues regarding “digital assets” in the capital markets. Digital assets (often referred to as “crypto assets,” among other terminology) are digital...
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Digital Currencies: Sanctions Evasion Risks
Resources · Feb 8, 2018
Introduction As the market for digital currencies evolves, one area on which Congress has focused is the potential use of digital currencies for sanctions evasion. Digital currencies face an uneven...
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Digital Assets and SEC Regulation
Reports · Jun 23, 2021
In recent years, financial innovation in capital markets has fostered a new asset class—digital assets—and introduced new forms of fundraising and trading. Digital assets, which include...
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Digital Wallets and Selected Policy Issues
Resources · Apr 18, 2022
Digital Wallet Landscape A digital wallet is a software application that stores payment or account details to facilitate traditional payments that use bank and credit card details and/or...
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Central Bank Digital Currencies: Policy Issues
Reports · Feb 7, 2022
The recent proliferation of private digital currencies or cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, has led to questions of whether the Federal Reserve (Fed) should create a central bank digital currency...
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OMB Releases 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act Guidance
Posts · Nov 27, 2023
On September 22, 2023, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-23-22, which contains guidance for agencies on implementation of the 21st Century Integrated Digital...
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The Broadband Digital Divide: What Comes Next for Congress?
Resources · Jan 31, 2022
As classrooms, workplaces, and social activities migrated online during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the digital divide—the gap between those who have access to broadband...
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How Consumer Data Affects Competition Through Digital Advertising
Resources · Jan 26, 2023
Digital advertising allows advertisers to send targeted ads, meaning different users viewing the same website or app at the same moment might see different ads. By using targeted ads, websites and...
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The OECD/G20 Pillar 1 and Digital Services Taxes: A Comparison
Reports · Apr 1, 2024
If Congress chooses not to adopt Pillar 1 of the OECD/G20 proposal to allocate some taxing rights to market countries, digital services taxes (DSTs) will likely continue and proliferate. DSTs are...
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Mergers and Acquisitions in Digital Markets
Reports · Mar 30, 2021
Some Members of Congress have expressed concern about mergers and acquisitions in digital markets, specifically those involving “Big Tech”—Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft....
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Rural Digital Opportunity Fund: Requirements and Selected Policy Issues
Reports · Aug 28, 2020
Broadband internet has become increasingly important in the 21st century, as more and more aspects of everyday life, such as job applications and homework assignments, require the use of digital...
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TikTok and China’s Digital Platforms: Issues for Congress
InFocus · Feb 26, 2026
Congress and U.S. policymakers at the federal and state levels have taken steps to address their national security-related concerns about the extent to which the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC or...
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State Broadband Initiatives: Selected State and Local Approaches as Potential Models for Federal Initiatives to Address the Digital Divide
Reports · Apr 6, 2020
Access to high-speed internet, known as broadband, is becoming increasingly essential to daily life as more applications and activities move online. This has become particularly apparent during the...
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Digital Contact Tracing and Data Protection Law
Reports · Sep 24, 2020
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected millions of Americans since the ongoing pandemic began, and the disease has caused many thousands of deaths across the country. Government officials...
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Low Earth Orbit Satellites: Potential to Address the Broadband Digital Divide
Reports · Nov 14, 2025
High-speed internet service, known as broadband, can be delivered through wired technologies, which use a physical cable (e.g., cable, fiber), and wireless technologies (e.g., mobile networks,...
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1070, to establish a National STEM Week to promote American innovation and enhance STEM education pathways for all...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Oct 21, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.1070, to establish a National STEM Week to promote American innovation and enhance STEM education pathways for all...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Oct 8, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets Aligning the U.S. Securities Laws for the Digital Age”
house Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee · Apr 9, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Navigating the Digital Payments Ecosystem: Examining a Federal Framework for Payment Stablecoins and Consequences of a U.S. Central Bank Digital...
house Financial Services Committee · Mar 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness Cody Carbone
The Digital Chamber · 1 hearing
Witness Jonathan Jachym
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange · 1 hearing
Witness Dr. John Torous, MD, MBI
Director of Digital Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Joel Thayer
Digital Progress Institute · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Justin Parke
Digital GI Bill Program Manager, Accenture Federal Services · 2 hearings
Witness Ms. Rachel Anderika
Anchorage Digital · 1 hearing
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.4726, to promote efforts to bring about stability and security in Sudan, S.3984, to authorize a 2-year extension of...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jun 17, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Full Committee Legislative Hearing on Digital Asset Taxation
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 9, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider H.R.3633, to provide for a system of regulation of the offer and sale of digital commodities by the Securities and...
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · May 14, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider the nominations of John Breslow, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, Fleet White, of Virginia, to...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Apr 30, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing “Online Scams, Crypto Fraud, and Digital Extortion: An Examination of How Transnational Criminal Networks Target Americans”
house Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee · Apr 21, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of John Breslow, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, Fleet White, of Virginia, to be an...
senate Foreign Relations Committee · Apr 16, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Digital G.I. Bill Undelivered: Contracting Challenges and the Need for Acquisition Reform
house Technology Modernization Subcommittee · Feb 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Justin Parke, Digital GI Bill Program Manager, Accenture Federal Services
Hearing Future of Payments: Promoting Innovation and Fair Markets
house Financial Services Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Ms. Rachel Anderika, Anchorage Digital
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: “H.R. 984, To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide timely equitable...
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jun 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Cody Carbone, The Digital Chamber
Hearing Legislative Solutions to Protect Children and Teens Online
house Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee · Dec 2, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Joel Thayer, Digital Progress Institute
Hearing Innovation with Integrity: Examining the Risks and Benefits of AI Chatbots
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Nov 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Dr. John Torous, MD, MBI, Director of Digital Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
Hearing A Golden Age of Digital Assets: Charting a Path Forward
house Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee · Feb 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Jonathan Jachym, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
Hearing Detrimental Delays: Reviewing Payment Failures in VA’s Education Programs
house Economic Opportunity Subcommittee · Dec 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Justin Parke, Digital GI Bill Program Manager, Accenture Federal Services
Committee Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee
house Agriculture Committee
Committee Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee
house Financial Services Committee
Committee Digital Assets Subcommittee
senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee