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This report provides information about Environmental Activities of the U.S. Coast Guard which focus on prevention programs, accompanied by enforcement and educational activities.

This report provides background information on major instances, since 1970, when congress has utilized funding cutoffs to compel the withdrawal of United States military forces from overseas military deployments.

This report discusses the Trade Restriction, The livestock "Feed Ban", BSE Surveillance and testing in Cattle and Federal spending in BSE.

This report lists all U.S. Presidents, their terms of service, information concerning their grave sites, such as the address and the congressional districts of the grave sites, and the names and the telephone numbers of the burial locations or organizations or groups that maintain the burial sites. This report also includes information on presidential wreath laying ceremonies.

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This report contains the presidential compliance on war powers resolution.

This report provides a brief overview of selected terms and conditions of Stafford Loans, characteristics of borrowers, and a description of how reduced rates would compare with current terms and conditions.

This report opens with a discussion of how to analyze the impact of immigrants on the pay and job opportunities of native-born workers. It then uses this framework to examine and interpret the empirical literature on the subject. The report concludes with a discussion of policy implications.

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With four successive elected civilian governments, the Central American nation of Panama has made notable political and economic progress since the 1989 U.S. military intervention that ousted the regime of General Manuel Noriega from power. The current President, Martín Torrijos of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), was elected in May 2004 and inaugurated to a four-year term on September 1, 2004.

This report presents a brief overview of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs for veterans as well as some of the issues that have been or likely will be subjects of congressional attention during the 109th Congress. In particular, it outlines the veterans benefits provisions that have seen legislative action. Issues concerning the Veterans Health Administration and health care issues are discussed in a companion report, CRS Report RL32961, Veterans’ Health Care Issues in the 109th Congress, by Sidath Viranga Panangala.