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AIDS: An Overview of Issues
This report discusses the many difficult policy dilemmas associated with the AIDS epidemic, including past Congressional funding to support AIDS research and education efforts, strategies for controlling the spread of the AIDS virus, and methods and resources available for the care and treatment of persons with AIDS.
Date:
December 24, 1987
Creator:
Smith, Pamela W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Equal Rights for Women
Amendments to the Constitution to provide equality of rights for women have been reintroduced in every Congress from the 67th i n 1923 to the 100th in 1987. Also proposed in recent years, although not to date in the 100th Congress, has been legislation to improve women's rights without amending the Constitution: a statue to forbid enforcement of a classification based on sex -- except where necessary to achieve a “compelling state interest, " and a measure providing for selective revision of existing Federal laws that discriminate on the basis of sex.
Date:
October 14, 1987
Creator:
Gladstone, Leslie W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Honduras: U.S. Foreign Assistance Facts
This report provides basic information on the U.S. aid program and on the general situation in Honduras. It also outlines major issues that have arisen in the aid debate.
Date:
March 31, 1987
Creator:
Sanford, Jonathan E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guatemala: U.S. Foreign Assistance Facts
In the past three years, the Administration has moved to substantially increase U.S. aid levels for Guatemala from $18.3 million in FY84 to a proposed $149.7 million in FY88. Budgetary limits on the overall size of the U.S. foreign aid program may cause reductions in the proposed 1988 levels, however, independent of any choices related to the Guatemalan, situation. This issue brief provides basic information on the U.S. aid program and on the general situation in Guatemala. It also outlines major issues that have arisen in the aid debate.
Date:
March 31, 1987
Creator:
Sanford, Jonathan E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Costa Rica: U.S. Foreign Assistance Facts
This issue brief provides basic information on the U.S. aid program and on the general situation in Costa Rica. It is one in a series on U.S. assistance to key countries.
Date:
March 31, 1987
Creator:
Sanford, Jonathan E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Polygraph Testing: Employee and Employer Rights
None
Date:
August 28, 1987
Creator:
McCallion, Gail
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sanctions against South Africa: Activities of the 99th Congress
None
Date:
February 13, 1987
Creator:
Branaman, Brenda
System:
The UNT Digital Library
South Africa: U.S. Policy After Sanctions
None
Date:
May 1, 1987
Creator:
Branaman, Brenda
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid: President's FY88 Budget
This report provides background and analysis on Medicaid and discusses the President's FY88 budget.
Date:
October 30, 1987
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Space Policy
None
Date:
June 29, 1987
Creator:
Humphlett, Patricia & Smith, Marcia S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Catastrophic Health Insurance: Medicare
Catastrophic medical costs are broadly defined as large unpredictable health care expenses; these are usually associated with a major illness or serious injury. The absence of catastrophic health insurance protection for the elderly is the subject of concern in this report.
Date:
September 1, 1987
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Liability Insurance Controversy
This report discusses liability insurance, as the primary method of managing business related risks that has been recognized as one of the foundations of American comnerce.
Date:
May 1, 1987
Creator:
Whiteman, David
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Liability Insurance Crisis
This report discusses liability insurance crisis, including complaints from businesses, professionals , and municipalities as well threat of lawsuits.
Date:
June 1, 1987
Creator:
Cohen, Henry & Whiteman, David
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Defense Initiative: Program Facts
None
Date:
July 22, 1987
Creator:
Hildreth, Steven A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trade Deficits and the Dollar: Bibliography-in-Brief, 1984-1987
None
Date:
October 1, 1987
Creator:
Kirk, Robert S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Reagan Administration Posture Toward the ABM Treaty - Possible Implications
None
Date:
September 8, 1987
Creator:
Hildreth, Steven A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Drug Control: President's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 1988
This report discusses the President's FY1988 budget, focusing on the $3 billion set aside for Federal programs to control or prevent the use of narcotics and other dangerous drugs. The report includes various key documents illustrating the positions taken by Congressional critics of the request as well as the Administration's defenses. Finally, for a longer term perspective, there are graphs and a table showing drug budget trends since FY 1981.
Date:
June 1, 1987
Creator:
Hogan, Harry L. & Walke, Roger
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Multilateral Development Banks: Legislation Affecting U.S. Participation
None
Date:
June 29, 1987
Creator:
Sanford, Jonathan E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Iran-Iraq War: Implications for U.S. Policy
This report discusses the Iran-Iraq conflict at its present state, which has become a war of attrition with neither side capable of achieving a decisive military victory over the other in the short term. U.S. policy concerns currently are threefold: first, that Iraq, despite moves to sustain its economic and military capacities, ultimately might suffer a destabilizing defeat to the detriment of U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf region; second, that future instability in Iran could open opportunities for Soviet exploitation; and third, that the conflict might expand beyond its present confines to threaten friendly regional states and the availability of their vast petroleum resources.
Date:
October 14, 1987
Creator:
Preece, Richard M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Manual on the Federal Budget Process
The purpose of this manual is to assist users of Federal budget information in understanding how the process works and how data are to be interpreted.
Date:
March 31, 1987
Creator:
Schick, Allen; Keith, Robert & Davis, Edward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Liability Insurance Controversy
This report discusses liability insurance, as the primary method of managing business related risks that has been recognized as one of the foundations of American commerce.
Date:
May 1, 1987
Creator:
Whiteman, David
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Liability Insurance Crisis
This report discusses liability insurance crisis, including complaints from businesses, professionals , and municipalities as well threat of lawsuits.
Date:
June 1, 1987
Creator:
Cohen, Henry & Whiteman, David
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Persian Gulf and the U.S. Naval Presence: Issues for Congress
None
Date:
August 3, 1987
Creator:
Collier, Ellen C.; Gallis, Paul E.; Goldman, Stuart D.; Mark, Clyde R.; O'Rourke, Ronald & Preece, Richard M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Defense Initiative: Program Facts
None
Date:
July 22, 1987
Creator:
Hildreth, Steven A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library