Congress and Foreign Policy: Selected References (open access)

Congress and Foreign Policy: Selected References

This spreading list presents literature on the role of Congress in the conduct of foreign relations. Citations include such topics as the relationship between Congress and the executive, role of committees, and the impact of foreign policy decisions. The focus is on the current literature, but older materials are included to provide historical background on this topic.
Date: January 1988
Creator: Shapiro, Sherry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Bicentennial Celebrations Commemorating the 200th Anniversaries of the U.S. Constitution and of the U.S. Congress (open access)

Selected Bicentennial Celebrations Commemorating the 200th Anniversaries of the U.S. Constitution and of the U.S. Congress

None
Date: November 1, 1986
Creator: Davidson, Roger H. & Kephart, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Information Management Policy: Critical Directions. 1980 (open access)

Federal Information Management Policy: Critical Directions. 1980

This report is designed to provide an overview of a wide range of problems associated with Federal information management policy.
Date: June 30, 1980
Creator: Becker, Louise Giovane
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government printing Reform (open access)

Government printing Reform

This report is about Government Printing Reform, pursued through the recodification of the public printing chapters of title 44, U.S. code.
Date: January 23, 1980
Creator: Relyea, Harold
System: The UNT Digital Library
Closing a Congressional Office: A Brief Overview (open access)

Closing a Congressional Office: A Brief Overview

This paper sets forth questions that a congressional office needs to consider in the process of closing down. These include statutory and non-statutory matters such as staff, the franking privilege, retirement benefits for Members and staff, allowances, and the disposition of congressional papers, and other office items.
Date: May 18, 1981
Creator: Carlile, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Eighteen Year Old Vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment and Subsequent Voting Rates of Newly Enfranchised Age Groups (open access)

The Eighteen Year Old Vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment and Subsequent Voting Rates of Newly Enfranchised Age Groups

This report traces the progress of proposals to expand the right to vote to citizens between the ages of 18 and 21, culminating in the ratification of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in 1971. It also reviews the voting rates of the newly enfranchised age group and compares them to voting rates of other age groups.
Date: May 20, 1983
Creator: Neale, Thomas H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congress and Foreign Policy: Selected References (open access)

Congress and Foreign Policy: Selected References

This spreading list presents literature on the role of Congress in the conduct of foreign relations. Citations include such topics as the relationship between Congress and the executive, role of committees, and the impact of foreign policy decisions. The focus is on the current literature, but older materials are included to provide historical background on this topic.
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: Shapiro, Sherry
System: The UNT Digital Library
War Powers: Selected References (open access)

War Powers: Selected References

This bibliography presents literature on the interpretation, background and use of the War Powers Resolution, which was enacted in 1973.
Date: May 1989
Creator: Shapiro, Sherry B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Former Presidents: Pensions, Facilities, and Services (open access)

Former Presidents: Pensions, Facilities, and Services

The Former Presidents Act (72 Stat. 838) of 1958 provides financial and practical means to those who have served as President of the United States and still retain certain implicit public duties. In 1958, the cost of former Presidents to the public was an estimated $64,000. In FY84, approximately $27 million will be spent on benefits to former Presidents and their widows. Operation and maintenance of Presidential Libraries was approximately $14.9 million in FY83. This report discusses increasing concerns regarding the amounts and the types of expenditures that have been made.
Date: May 18, 1984
Creator: Smith, Stephanie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genocide Convention (open access)

Genocide Convention

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide has been a matter of pending business before the Senate since its transmittal to that body in 1949. On May 21, 1985, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended that the Senate give its advice and consent to ratification of the Convention subject to eight conditions: two reservations, five understandings, and one declaration. This report examines the differing opinions on whether and under what conditions the Senate should approve ratification of the Genocide Convention.
Date: July 25, 1985
Creator: Bite, Vita
System: The UNT Digital Library
Onshore and Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing and Operations (open access)

Onshore and Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing and Operations

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Date: June 7, 1982
Creator: Hymes, William H.
System: The UNT Digital Library