WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF11009) on Brunei Darussalam on Aug. 18, 2023, by research assistant Joseph O. Yinusa and Asian affairs specialist Ben Dolven. Here are excerpts: * * * Brunei Darussalam The State of Brunei Darussalam (Brunei) is located on the northwest coast of the Island of Borneo, and is bordered and bifurcated by eastern Malaysia. Brunei has a land mass of 2,226 square miles (slightly smaller than D  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2023: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today released the transcript for the former FBI supervisory special agent (SSA). The former FBI SSA, who worked for the FBI for 20 years and retired in June 2022, corroborated IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley's testimony that FBI headquarters t  more

DELHI, New York, Aug. 16 -- Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-New York, issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2023: U.S. Rep. Marc Molinaro (NY-19) today joined Delaware County Acting District Attorney Shawn J. Smith, Delaware County Sheriff Craig S. DuMond, and local officials to announce three felony charges against Cruz Garcia, 43, an illegal immigrant without legal status in the United States. Cruz Garcia was indicted by the Delaware County Grand Jury for Strangulation in the Second Degree, Un  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following fact sheet: * * * Safer Supervision Act There are approximately 110,000 individuals serving federal supervised release, a form of supervision that follows their term of incarceration. As the Supreme Court has explained, Congress designed the supervision system so that courts would impose supervision "for those, and only those, who needed it." In practice, however, supervised release is now imposed in virtually eve  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Safer Supervision Act, a bill that would better ensure that the federal supervised release system is directing its resources to most effectively redu  more