"Terrorism" and Related Terms in Statute and Regulation: Selected Language


 

Publication Date: December 2006

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Government

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Congress has used the term "terrorism" often in legislation. Hundreds of federal statutes and regulations already refer to "terrorism" and related terms in a variety of other contexts. However, these statutes and regulations ultimately refer to an extremely small set of statutory definitions, current criminal law and immigration definitions among them. This report provides the current text of a few of the fundamental definitions.