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Homeland Security: Navy Operations — Background and Issues for Congress
This report discusses the Navy's homeland security (HLS) and homeland defense (HLD) operations, which raise several potential oversight issues for Congress, including Navy coordination with the Coast Guard in HLS and HLD operations.
Date:
November 22, 2005
Creator:
O'Rourke, Ronald
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Speed of Presidential and Senate Actions on Supreme Court Nominations, 1900-2005
This report provides information on the amount of time taken to act on all Supreme Court nominations occurring between 1900 and the present. It focuses on the actual amounts of time that Presidents and the Senate have taken to act (as opposed to the elapsed time between official points in the process).
Date:
November 7, 2005
Creator:
Garrett, R. Sam; Rutkus, Denis Steven & Copeland, Curtis W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Map Sources
This report identifies selected websites for maps of Iraq, including government, library, and organizational websites. Maps of the Middle East, Iraq, facilities used by U.S. forces in the Gulf, and U.S. government humanitarian assistance and reconstruction activities in Iraq are also provided.
Date:
November 8, 2005
Creator:
Fischer, Hannah
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Postal Service for Katrina Survivors
This report discusses the affected areas served by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Date:
November 2, 2005
Creator:
Stevens, Nye
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Spectrum Management: Auctions
This report discusses the radio frequency spectrum that is used for all forms of wireless communications, including cellular telephony, paging, personal communications service, radio and television broadcast, telephone radio relay, aeronautical and maritime radio navigation, and satellite command and control.
Date:
November 4, 2005
Creator:
Moore, Linda K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Controversies for the 109th Congress
This report discusses the ongoing debate about whether or not to approve energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Current law forbids energy leasing in the Refuge. This report addresses several legislative options on the issue, as well as policymakers' arguments for and against development, especially in the wake of increasing terrorism since 2000-2001.
Date:
November 1, 2005
Creator:
Corn, M. Lynne; Gelb, Bernard A. & Baldwin, Pamela
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Love Field: The Wright and Shelby Amendments
The history of the Wright Amendment dates back to the 1960s when the now defunct Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) proposed the creation of a single regional airport in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area. This report discusses legislation affecting the Wright/Shelby restrictions that have been introduced in the 109th Congress.
Date:
November 9, 2005
Creator:
Tatelman, Todd B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: EPA’s Air Compliance Agreement
This report discusses a plan announced by EPA in January 2005, called the Air Compliance Agreement, that would produce air quality monitoring data on animal agriculture emissions from a small number of farms, while at the same time protecting all participants (including farms where no monitoring takes place) through a “safe harbor” from liability under certain provisions of federal environmental laws.
Date:
November 4, 2005
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Comparing Automotive and Steel Industry Legacy Cost Issues
Delphi is the largest U.S automotive parts supplier and concerns are growing over increasing costs of health care benefits. The automotive industry aims to reduce legacy costs and the article compares steel and automotive legacy costs.
Date:
November 28, 2005
Creator:
Cooney, Stephen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress
This report discusses the increasing attention being paid to alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles, the proponents of which point to their potential to improve urban air quality, decrease dependence on foreign oil, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report also discusses the major barriers currently preventing widespread use of such technologies, and discusses these technologies in the particular contexts of the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes and the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Date:
November 22, 2005
Creator:
Yacobucci, Brent D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Military Base Closures: Role and Costs of Environmental Cleanup
This report provides an overview of cleanup requirements for the transfer and reuse of base closure properties, discusses the status of property transfer on bases closed under prior rounds, examines costs to clean up bases closed under these prior rounds, and discusses cleanup costs and issues for the 2005 round.
Date:
November 15, 2005
Creator:
Bearden, David M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
House Rules Governing Committee Markup Procedures
This report provides general guidance to committees for conducting meetings to mark up legislation.
Date:
November 15, 2005
Creator:
Schneider, Judy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Child Welfare: Program Reauthorizations and Recent and FY2006 Proposed Funding Levels
This report discusses current funding levels for child welfare programs, intended to protect children from abuse and neglect and to ensure their well-being. In FY2005 the federal government appropriated $7.8 billion for these purposes. Most of this funding is made available to states through open-ended entitlement programs or as formula grants and is authorized under Title IV-E and Title IV-B of the Social Security Act or under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA).
Date:
November 29, 2005
Creator:
Stoltzfus, Emilie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Limiting Tort Liability of Gun Manufacturers and Gun Sellers: Legal Analysis of P.L. 109-92 (2005)
This report examines P.L. 109-92 (2005), which passed the Senate and the House as S. 397, 109th Congress and was signed by the President on October 26, 2005
Date:
November 8, 2005
Creator:
Cohen, Henry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.N. Convention Against Torture (CAT): Overview and Application to Interrogation Techniques
This report discusses the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) requires signatory parties to take measures to end torture within their territorial jurisdiction and to criminalize all acts of torture.
Date:
November 7, 2005
Creator:
Garcia, Michael J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Business Taxation: The Current System, Its Effects, and Options for Reform
None
Date:
November 30, 2005
Creator:
Brumbaugh, David L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Budget Reconciliation Legislation in 2005
This report discusses the budget reconciliation process that is used by congress during the past quarter-century to implement major changes in budget policy.
Date:
November 22, 2005
Creator:
Keith, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: A Primer
This report reviews the types of air emissions from livestock and poultry operations and their human health and environmental impacts. It then discusses provisions of several federal laws concerned with environmental impacts, beginning with the Clean Water Act, because protecting water resources has been the primary regulatory focus regarding livestock and animal operations.
Date:
November 30, 2005
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Holdings of Federal Debt
None
Date:
November 28, 2005
Creator:
Murray, Justin & Labonte, Marc
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Loan Companies/Banks and the Separation of Banking and Commerce: Legislative and Regulatory Perspectives
This report analyzes the controversy by providing a historical overview of the separation of banking and commerce.
Date:
November 28, 2005
Creator:
Jackson, William D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Education and Training Issues Related to Major Disasters
This report includes a short description of the federal Stafford Act and its applicability to education and training facilities to provide context for the specific education and workforce development programs and requirements and their intersection with federal emergency management.
Date:
November 4, 2005
Creator:
Apling, Richard N.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Deductibility of State and Local Taxes
This report addresses the potential impact of changing the status of federal deductibility on state and local government tax systems, individual taxpayers, and the federal budget.
Date:
November 15, 2005
Creator:
Maguire, Steven
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: A Primer
This report reviews the types of air emissions from livestock and poultry operations and their human health and environmental impacts. It then discusses provisions of several federal laws concerned with environmental impacts, beginning with the Clean Water Act, because protecting water resources has been the primary regulatory focus regarding livestock and animal operations.
Date:
November 4, 2005
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assignments to Senate Subcommittees
This report discusses the rules and process for establishing subcommittees. One of the first orders of business for Senate committees is deciding whether to establish subcommittees, and if so, determining their number, sizes, party ratios, chairs, ranking minority members, and other members. There are no direct limits on the number of subcommittees that may be created.
Date:
November 15, 2005
Creator:
Schneider, Judy
System:
The UNT Digital Library