Every year, the House and Senate committees issue "Report Language" along with their fiscal year budget plans. Report Language is different than lawmaking, In Lawmaking, Congress might order CMS to hold a meeting on topic X and allocate $100,000 for it, or order CDC to start a new program and allocate $4M dollars for it.
In the soft world of "report language," Congress (either House, or Senate, or often but not always both) will ask the agency to pay attention to something, do something, or report on something. The agencies don't have to do it. But they don't usually ignore these completely, the Agency will "report back" six or nine months later in some kind of response. The response could be large ("We have issued a 100 page agency report available at this link...") or could be very minor ("Agency thanks the Committee for its interest in ABC. ABC is also a high interest of us here at the Agency. We continue to closely study policies for ABC."
OVERVIEW
Here's a 2020 five-page white paper on "What Is Report Language?"
https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20100323_98-558_cba7e28584033a268db936509835e7948a369635.pdf
SENATE REPORT LANGUAGE NOVEMBER 2020
Here is the September 2020, 281 page Report Language request FROM SENATE to agencies in Health, Education, Labor, and related agencies (aka HELP).
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/LHHSRept.pdf
Mirrored in a cloud copy here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IrDLrhScGWG5FKJ0225ckUruBZFAlswT/view?usp=sharing
HOUSE REPORT LANUGAGE JULY 2020
Here is the July 2021, 384 page Report Language request FROM HOUSE to the same agencies.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/191j3Wk9nXjCaBC980XdG98ZFSiHExaWj/view?usp=sharing
I don't have an official House link (just use the cloud copy of the House report) but in general House reports are indexed here.
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