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Federal Funding for AIDS Research and Education (open access)

Federal Funding for AIDS Research and Education

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Date: January 12, 1988
Creator: Smith, Pamela W. & Swerdloff, Jill T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AIDS: International Problems and Issues (open access)

AIDS: International Problems and Issues

This issue brief discusses the AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) virus and its effects on the world, especially with regard to the welfare of developing nations and various facets of general international relations. Also discussed are the related issues for Congress and U.S. contributions to international AIDS relief efforts led by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Date: January 6, 1988
Creator: McHugh, Lois B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Glossary of Selected Telecommunications Terms (open access)

A Glossary of Selected Telecommunications Terms

The following glossary provides short definitions and descriptions of selected telecommunications terminology, agencies, and organizations, as well as a listing of key laws and Federal Communications Commission regulations and decisions.
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Bortnick, Jane; Gilroy, Angele A. & Siddall, David
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Finance Reform: A Summary and Analysis of Legislative Proposals In the 98th and 99th Congresses (open access)

Campaign Finance Reform: A Summary and Analysis of Legislative Proposals In the 98th and 99th Congresses

This report summarizes and analyzes on a conceptual basis the 108 bills and major amendments offered in the 98th and 99th Congresses which proposed changes in the campaign finance laws governing Federal elections.
Date: January 5, 1987
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Laws Relating to the Control of Narcotics and Other Dangerous Drugs, Enacted 1961-1985: Brief Summaries (open access)

Federal Laws Relating to the Control of Narcotics and Other Dangerous Drugs, Enacted 1961-1985: Brief Summaries

This report contains summaries of enactments, treaties, and reorganization plans, passed from 1961 through 1985, that have some clearly indicated relationship-- either by specific reference or by virtue of legislative history--to the Federal effort to prevent drug misuse through control of the supply of narcotics and other dangerous drugs.
Date: January 15, 1986
Creator: Hogan, Harry L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Defense Initiative: Program Description and Major Issues (open access)

The Strategic Defense Initiative: Program Description and Major Issues

"This report describes the evolution, composition, and major issues of the [Strategic Defense Initiative" (p. iii).
Date: January 7, 1986
Creator: DiMaggio, Cosmo; Manfredi, Arthur F., Jr & Hildreth, Steven A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tobacco Programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: Their Operation and Cost (open access)

Tobacco Programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: Their Operation and Cost

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Date: January 15, 1988
Creator: Womach, Jasper
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Reserve Membership and Monetary Control (open access)

Federal Reserve Membership and Monetary Control

This report discusses the current state of monetary policy. Questions about the continued capability of the Federal Reserve System (FRS) to exercise effective monetary control were raised in connection with several developments over recent years that diminished, in relative terms, the deposit component of the stock of money over which the FRS maintained reserve requirement controls. The Monetary Control Act, Title 1 of P.L. 96-221 was designed to ensure that the FRS as ability to conduct monetary policy is not diminished. This Act, signed into law on Mar. 31, 1980, is one of the few major amendments to the original Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
Date: January 12, 1981
Creator: White, Roger
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Availability of Nonfuel Minerals on Federal Lands: Background on the Issue (open access)

The Availability of Nonfuel Minerals on Federal Lands: Background on the Issue

The following report reviews the laws and practices that govern the extraction of non-fuel minerals from federal lands, and the restrict ions against such extract ions. Moreover, the federal land management agencies that regulate such activities are identified, and their responsibilities discussed.
Date: January 18, 1982
Creator: Powers, Jane
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mergers: Background and Current Issues (open access)

Mergers: Background and Current Issues

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Date: January 29, 1982
Creator: Winch, Kevin F
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States/Soviet Military Balance (open access)

United States/Soviet Military Balance

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Date: January 4, 1982
Creator: Collins, John M. & Severns, Elizabeth Ann
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grants Work in a Congressional Office (open access)

Grants Work in a Congressional Office

Congressional offices are often approached by constituents seeking funds for proposals of potential benefit to their State or district. This report discusses the grants process and varying approaches and techniques congressional offices have developed in dealing with grants requests.
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Newman, Rhoda
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethylene Dibromide (EDB) (open access)

Ethylene Dibromide (EDB)

Much attention has recently been focused on the chemical ethylene dibromide (EDB). This chemical has been widely used in leaded gasoline, and has also been used to treat grains, citrus and other crops. It has been found in foods and in groundwater. This paper examines the possible health effects of exposure to EDB, as well as its regulation. The possible health effects and regulation of various chemical and physical alternatives to EDB are also examined. This paper concludes with some policy considerations pertinent to EDB.
Date: January 31, 1985
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Maintenance Organizations (open access)

Health Maintenance Organizations

This report discusses the "health maintenance organization", which is an entity that provides specific health services to its members for a prepaid, fixed payment.
Date: January 22, 1982
Creator: Price, Richard J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Martial Law in Poland (open access)

Martial Law in Poland

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Date: January 21, 1983
Creator: Goldman, Stuart D. & Engel, Victoria L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Universal Social Security Coverage: Extending Mandatory Coverage (open access)

Universal Social Security Coverage: Extending Mandatory Coverage

This report is on Universal Social Security Coverage: Extending Mandatory Coverage.
Date: January 19, 1983
Creator: Snook, Dennis W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Natural Gas Policy Act (open access)

Natural Gas Policy Act

The Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA) culminated decades of dispute over natural gas policy and was the "centerpiece of President Carter's National Energy Act. Now there are many issues of both regulatory and legislative concerns under discussion. These items were unanticipated by the framers of this difficult and delicate compromise. Generally speaking, they all stem from the fact that oil prices more than doubled in 1979 and 1980. The NGPA1s framers set wellhead gas prices within the new law's framework in such a way that they would converge on oil equivalent prices -- as they were then perceived -- in real dollar terms by 1985.
Date: January 20, 1983
Creator: Kumins, Lawrence C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NATO Nuclear Forces: Modernization and Arms Controls (open access)

NATO Nuclear Forces: Modernization and Arms Controls

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Date: January 24, 1983
Creator: Sloan, Stanley R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Job Training Programs: Reauthorization and Funding Issues (open access)

Job Training Programs: Reauthorization and Funding Issues

This paper is divided into the following sections: (1) History of Federal Employment and Training Programs; (2) Reauthorization Issues; (3) Administration Legislative and Budget Proposals; and (4) Congressional Action.
Date: January 3, 1983
Creator: Spar, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Real Property: Inventory and Disposal Initiatives (open access)

Federal Real Property: Inventory and Disposal Initiatives

This report provides background and discusses the inventory and disposal of public lands and other Federal property. For many years the Federal Government has operated under a statutory policy of retaining public domain lands and has disposed of the proceeds from the sale of surplus property other than by the reduction of the national debt. Under the present system, the Government disposes of some types of land when it is determined to be surplus to Government needs, or, in the case of public lands, when it is determined that the national interest would best be served by the sale or exchange of particular tracts of land.
Date: January 27, 1983
Creator: Simmons, Malcolm; Baldwin, Pamela & Bea, Keith
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hospital Cost Containment (open access)

Hospital Cost Containment

This report provides an overview of the dimensions of the problem of rising expenditures for hospital care, the reasons for rising hospital costs, general information on methods of controlling hospital costs and specific programs which have been developed, and some of the issues involved.
Date: January 10, 1983
Creator: Lundy, Janet Pernice
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Stamps: 1982 Legislation (open access)

Food Stamps: 1982 Legislation

This report discusses legislative issues regarding food stamp appropriations. Authorization for food stamp appropriations was to have expired at the end of FY82; in addition, the FY83-85 budget resolution assumed substantial savings in food stamps. As a result, and with the potential of an FY82 food stamp funding shortfall averted by the appropriation of a $1 billion supplemental, Congress acted to reauthorize appropriations and limit program costs in the 1982 budget reconciliation process.
Date: January 10, 1983
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Financing (open access)

Social Security Financing

The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program, the largest of the social security programs, will not have sufficient resources to meet its benefit payments on time in July 1983. Even if the program were permitted to continue to borrow from the other social security programs, the financial the shortfall would re-emerge in 1984.
Date: January 25, 1983
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart; Kollmann, Geoffrey & Miller, Nancy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
High Interest Rates: Causes, Consequences, and Issues (open access)

High Interest Rates: Causes, Consequences, and Issues

This paper reviews the causes of the steep interest rate escalation since 1978 and the persistence of high rates during the recent recession and revival.
Date: January 30, 1984
Creator: Dernburg, Thomas F
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library