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  • S. 5185, titled the β€œFunding Community College Infrastructure Act,” aims to set up a grant program to help support qualified community colleges, especially in areas lacking such institutions or in low-income communities. The bill outlines a process where the Secretary of...

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    The Funding Community College Infrastructure Act is like giving money to help build and improve schools that teach grown-ups, especially in places where there aren't many schools or where people don't have a lot of money. The plan shares a lot of money over 10 years to make sure the schools have good buildings and can work with other schools or job training places.

  • The "Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Act" aims to help people in the United States develop skills to critically understand and interact with digital media. It recognizes the importance of media literacy to combat misinformation and disinformation, especially from foreign sources, and...

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    The bill wants to teach kids how to use the internet safely and smartly by helping schools and libraries make special programs. It gives money to do this, but doesn't say exactly who can use the money or how it should be spent.

  • H.R. 7922 aims to create a Water Risk and Resilience Organization (WRRO) to set cybersecurity standards for water systems that serve large populations in the U.S. The bill outlines how this WRRO will be certified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its...

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    H.R. 7922 wants to create a special group to help keep big city water systems safe from computer hackers and gives them money to do their job. But there's concern about how this group will use its power and money, so there are worries it might not always be fair or careful.

  • H.R. 8698 aims to amend the Public Health Service Act to create a public awareness campaign about screening for type 1 diabetes. The campaign will be carried out by the Secretary of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focusing on...

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    H.R. 8698 is a plan to help people learn about checking for a kind of diabetes called type 1, with $5 million a year to make sure doctors and people know how to find and take care of it. The money will be used to make flyers, videos, and work with trusted helpers, but there are some questions about how the money will be spent wisely.

  • The bill S. 5047, known as the β€œCarbon Scoring Act of 2024,” requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to develop and maintain economic models to estimate the effects of various policies on greenhouse gas emissions. The CBO must prepare annual reports on its greenhouse...

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    The Carbon Scoring Act of 2024 wants the government to check how rules might change the amount of gases that warm the planet, like carbon dioxide. It gives $20 million a year for ten years so the government can do this work better and explain how laws could cost more because of these gases.