Legislative Subject Terms — Field Values
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- Academic performance and assessments
- Accidents
- Accounting and auditing
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Adoption and foster care
- Adult day care
- Adult education and literacy
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Age discrimination
- Aging
- Agricultural conservation and pollution
- Agricultural education
- Agricultural equipment and machinery
- Agricultural insurance
- Agricultural marketing and promotion
- Agricultural practices and innovations
- Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
- Agricultural research
- Agricultural trade
- Air quality
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Alcoholic beverages
- Allergies
- Alliances
- Allied health services
- Alternative and renewable resources
- Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
- Alternative treatments
- Animal and plant health
- Animal protection and human-animal relationships
- Appropriations
- Aquaculture
- Aquatic ecology
- Arab-Israeli relations
- Archaeology and anthropology
- Arctic and polar regions
- Area studies and international education
- Arms control and nonproliferation
- Art, artists, authorship
- Assault and harassment offenses
- Astronomy
- Athletes
- Atmospheric science and weather
- Aviation and airports
- Bank accounts, deposits, capital
- Banking and financial institutions regulation
- Bankruptcy
- Behavioral sciences
- Biological and life sciences
- Birds
- Birth defects
- Blood and blood diseases
- Books and print media
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Budget process
- Building construction
- Business education
- Business ethics
- Business expenses
- Business investment and capital
- Business records
- Buy American requirements
- Cancer
- Capital gains tax
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Cell biology and embryology
- Cemeteries and funerals
- Census and government statistics
- Charitable contributions
- Chemical and biological weapons
- Chemistry
- Child care and development
- Child health
- Child safety and welfare
- Citizenship and naturalization
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil disturbances
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Coast guard
- Collective security
- Commemorative events and holidays
- Commodities markets
- Community life and organization
- Commuting
- Competition and antitrust
- Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
- Comprehensive health care
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Conflicts and wars
- Congressional agencies
- Congressional committees
- Congressional districts and representation
- Congressional elections
- Congressional leadership
- Congressional officers and employees
- Congressional operations and organization
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional tributes
- Congressional-executive branch relations
- Constitution and constitutional amendments
- Consumer affairs
- Consumer credit
- Contracts and agency
- Cooperative and condominium housing
- Corporate finance and management
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Credit and credit markets
- Crime prevention
- Crime victims
- Crimes against animals and natural resources
- Crimes against children
- Crimes against property
- Crimes against women
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Criminal justice information and records
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Cultural exchanges and relations
- Currency
- Customs enforcement
- Dams and canals
- Debt collection
- Defense spending
- Dental care
- Detention of persons
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
- Digital media
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Disability and paralysis
- Disability assistance
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Domestic violence and child abuse
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Drug therapy
- Drug trafficking and controlled substances
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Due process and equal protection
- Earth sciences
- Ecology
- Economic development
- Economic performance and conditions
- Economic theory
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Education programs funding
- Educational facilities and institutions
- Educational guidance
- Educational technology and distance education
- Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency communications systems
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Employee hiring
- Employee leave
- Employee performance
- Employment and training programs
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Employment taxes
- Endangered and threatened species
- Energy assistance for the poor and aged
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Energy prices
- Energy research
- Energy revenues and royalties
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Environmental health
- Environmental regulatory procedures
- Environmental technology
- Espionage and treason
- Ethnic studies
- Evidence and witnesses
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Family planning and birth control
- Family relationships
- Family services
- Farmland
- Federal appellate courts
- Federal district courts
- Federal officials
- Federal preemption
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federally chartered organizations
- Financial crises and stabilization
- Financial literacy
- Financial services and investments
- Firearms and explosives
- Fires
- First Amendment rights
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Fishes
- Floods and storm protection
- Food assistance and relief
- Food industry and services
- Food supply, safety, and labeling
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Foreign and international banking
- Foreign and international corporations
- Foreign labor
- Foreign language and bilingual programs
- Foreign loans and debt
- Foreign property
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Free trade and trade barriers
- Freedom of information
- Fruit and vegetables
- Gambling
- Games and hobbies
- General Native American affairs matters
- General agriculture matters
- General business and commerce matters
- General education matters
- General energy matters
- General foreign operations matters
- General health and health care finance matters
- General public lands matters
- General science and technology matters
- General taxation matters
- Genetics
- Geography
- Government buildings, facilities, and property
- Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government information and archives
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government liability
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- Grain
- HIV/AIDS
- Hate crimes
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Hearing, speech, and vision care
- Hereditary and development disorders
- Higher education
- Historic sites and heritage areas
- Historical and cultural resources
- Home and outpatient care
- Homeland security
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
- Horticulture and plants
- Hospital care
- House of Representatives
- Housing and community development funding
- Housing discrimination
- Housing finance and home ownership
- Housing for the elderly and disabled
- Housing industry and standards
- Housing supply and affordability
- Human rights
- Human trafficking
- Humanities programs funding
- Hunting and fishing
- Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
- Hydrology and hydrography
- Immigrant health and welfare
- Immigration status and procedures
- Immunology and vaccination
- Income tax credits
- Income tax deductions
- Income tax deferral
- Income tax exclusion
- Income tax rates
- Indian claims
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Indian social and development programs
- Industrial facilities
- Industrial policy and productivity
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Inflation and prices
- Infrastructure development
- Insects
- Insurance industry and regulation
- Intellectual property
- Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Intergovernmental relations
- International exchange and broadcasting
- International law and treaties
- International monetary system and foreign exchange
- International organizations and cooperation
- International scientific cooperation
- Internet and video services
- Judges
- Judicial procedure and administration
- Judicial review and appeals
- Jurisdiction and venue
- Juvenile crime and gang violence
- Labor standards
- Labor-management relations
- Lakes and rivers
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- Language arts
- Law enforcement administration and funding
- Law enforcement officers
- Lawyers and legal services
- Lease and rental services
- Legal fees and court costs
- Legislative rules and procedure
- Libraries and archives
- Licensing and registrations
- Life, casualty, property insurance
- Lighting and heating
- Literature
- Livestock
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Low- and moderate-income housing
- Mammals
- Manufacturing
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine and inland water transportation
- Marine pollution
- Marketing and advertising
- Marriage and family status
- Materials
- Meat
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical ethics
- Medical research
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Members of Congress
- Mental health
- Metals
- Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
- Military assistance, sales, and agreements
- Military civil functions
- Military command and structure
- Military education and training
- Military facilities and property
- Military history
- Military law
- Military medicine
- Military operations and strategy
- Military personnel and dependents
- Military procurement, research, weapons development
- Military readiness
- Militias and paramilitary groups
- Mining
- Minority and disadvantaged businesses
- Minority education
- Minority employment
- Minority health
- Monetary policy
- Monuments and memorials
- Motor carriers
- Motor fuels
- Motor vehicles
- Multilateral development programs
- Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
- Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
- Music
- National Guard and reserves
- National and community service
- National symbols
- Natural disasters
- Navigation, waterways, harbors
- Neurological disorders
- News media and reporting
- Noise pollution
- Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
- Nuclear power
- Nuclear weapons
- Nursing
- Nutrition and diet
- Oil and gas
- Olympic games
- Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
- Organized crime
- Outdoor recreation
- Palestinians
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
- Pedestrians and bicycling
- Performance measurement
- Performing arts
- Personnel records
- Pest management
- Photography and imaging
- Physical fitness and lifestyle
- Pipelines
- Policy sciences
- Political advertising
- Political movements and philosophies
- Political parties and affiliation
- Political representation
- Pollution liability
- Pornography
- Postal service
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Preschool education
- Prescription drugs
- Presidential administrations
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
- Private Legislation
- Product development and innovation
- Product safety and quality
- Professional sports
- Property rights
- Property tax
- Protection of officials
- Protest and dissent
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public housing
- Public participation and lobbying
- Public transit
- Public utilities and utility rates
- Public-private cooperation
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Radiation
- Radioactive wastes and releases
- Railroads
- Real estate business
- Reconstruction and stabilization
- Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
- Regional and metropolitan planning
- Religion
- Reptiles
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Research ethics
- Residential rehabilitation and home repair
- Retail and wholesale trades
- Right of privacy
- Roads and highways
- Rule of law and government transparency
- Rural conditions and development
- Sales and excise taxes
- Sanctions
- School administration
- School athletics
- Science and engineering education
- Scientific communication
- Seafood
- Seashores and lakeshores
- Securities
- Self-employed
- Senate
- Separation, divorce, custody, support
- Service animals
- Service industries
- Sex and reproductive health
- Sex offenses
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Small business
- Small towns
- Smuggling and trafficking
- Social security and elderly assistance
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- Soil pollution
- Solid waste and recycling
- Sound recording
- Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
- Space flight and exploration
- Spacecraft and satellites
- Special education
- Specialized courts
- Sports and recreation facilities
- State and local courts
- State and local finance
- State and local government operations
- State and local taxation
- Strategic materials and reserves
- Student aid and college costs
- Student records
- Subversive activities
- Supreme Court
- Surgery and anesthesia
- Tariffs
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Tax reform and tax simplification
- Tax treatment of families
- Tax-exempt organizations
- Taxation of foreign income
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- Technology assessment
- Technology transfer and commercialization
- Teenage pregnancy
- Telecommunication rates and fees
- Telephone and wireless communication
- Television and film
- Temporary and part-time employment
- Terrorism
- Trade adjustment assistance
- Trade agreements and negotiations
- Trade restrictions
- Trade secrets and economic espionage
- Transfer and inheritance taxes
- Transportation costs
- Transportation employees
- Transportation programs funding
- Transportation safety and security
- Travel and tourism
- U.S. Capitol
- U.S. and foreign investments
- U.S. history
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Unemployment
- Urban and suburban affairs and development
- User charges and fees
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
- Veterans' medical care
- Veterans' organizations and recognition
- Veterans' pensions and compensation
- Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
- Violent crime
- Visas and passports
- Vocational and technical education
- Voting rights
- Wages and earnings
- War and emergency powers
- War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
- Water quality
- Water resources funding
- Water storage
- Water use and supply
- Watersheds
- Wetlands
- White-collar crime
- Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
- Women in business
- Women's education
- Women's employment
- Women's health
- Women's rights
- Worker safety and health
- World health
- World history
- Youth employment and child labor
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