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The Economics of the Federal Budget Surplus (open access)

The Economics of the Federal Budget Surplus

Fiscal 1998 marked the first year that total receipts exceeded outlays in the federal budget since 1969. Since then, the budget has been in surplus and official projections expect the budget to remain in surplus for the foreseeable future. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline projections indicate that the budget surpluses are expected to grow steadily over the next 10 years.
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: Cashell, Brian W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Points of Order, Rulings, and Appeals in the House of Representatives (open access)

Points of Order, Rulings, and Appeals in the House of Representatives

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Date: March 30, 1998
Creator: Bach, Stanley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Privileged Business on the House Floor (open access)

Privileged Business on the House Floor

Privileged business is the legislative business of the House that Members have a right to call up for consideration on the floor when the House is not engaged in considering some other matter. Privileged business consists of various kinds of bills, resolutions, and other matters
Date: March 30, 1998
Creator: Bach, Stanley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee Funding Resolutions and Processes, 107th Congress (open access)

Committee Funding Resolutions and Processes, 107th Congress

Senate action on its committee funding for the 107th Congress was modified as a result of the power-sharing agreement established by S. Res. 8 of January 5, 2001.1 This agreement assures Republicans and Democrats of equal staffing resources on all committees, and supplants Senate rules that require minority party control of at least one-third of each committee’s staff positions. Despite some delays in its normal timetable, the Senate, on March 8, 2001, agreed to a biennial funding resolution by unanimous consent.
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: Rundquist, Paul S. & Petersen, R. Eric
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico's Counter-Narcotics Efforts under Zedillo and Fox, December 1994-March 2001 (open access)

Mexico's Counter-Narcotics Efforts under Zedillo and Fox, December 1994-March 2001

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Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: Storrs, K. Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Policing in Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations: Problems and Proposed Solutions (open access)

Policing in Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations: Problems and Proposed Solutions

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Date: March 30, 2004
Creator: Serafino, Nina M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Certification of Mexico in 1999: Arguments For and Against Congressional Resolutions of Disapproval (open access)

Drug Certification of Mexico in 1999: Arguments For and Against Congressional Resolutions of Disapproval

This report presents arguments for and against congressional resolutions to disapprove President Clinton’s February 26, 1999 certification of Mexico as a fully cooperative country in efforts to control illicit narcotics.1 These resolutions (H.J.Res. 35--Bachus, and H.J.Res. 43--Mica and Gilman) would disapprove the President’s certification, but would permit him to avoid withholding of assistance to Mexico if he determined that vital national interests required such assistance.
Date: March 30, 1999
Creator: Storrs, K. Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government Performance and Results Act: Implementation and Issues of Possible Concern, 106th Congress (open access)

Government Performance and Results Act: Implementation and Issues of Possible Concern, 106th Congress

Most federal agencies have submitted their second performance plans (for FY2000) that were mandated by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, P.L. 103-62. The GAO and congressional groups have assessed implementation activities
Date: March 30, 1999
Creator: Knezo, Genevieve J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: The Presidential Coordination Office (open access)

Homeland Security: The Presidential Coordination Office

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Date: March 30, 2004
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion of Aliens (open access)

Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion of Aliens

"This report opens with an overview of the grounds for inadmissibility and summarizes key legislation enacted in recent years" (p. i).
Date: March 30, 2005
Creator: Garcia, Michael John & Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation (open access)

Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation

Falling agricultural exports and declining commodity prices led farm groups and agribusiness firms to urge the 106th Congress to pass legislation exempting foods and agricultural commodities from U.S. economic sanctions against certain countries. In completing action on the FY2001 agriculture appropriations bill, Congress codified the lifting of unilateral sanctions on commercial sales of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical products to Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Sudan, and extended this policy to apply to Cuba (Title IX of H.R. 5426, as enacted by P.L. 106-387; Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000). Related provisions place financing and licensing conditions on sales to these countries. Those that apply to Cuba, though, are permanent and more restrictive than for the other countries. Other provisions give Congress the authority in the future to veto a President's proposal to impose a sanction on the sale of agricultural or medical products.
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pocket Veto: Its Current Status (open access)

The Pocket Veto: Its Current Status

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Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: Fisher, Louis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Across-the-Board Tax Cuts: Economic Issues (open access)

Across-the-Board Tax Cuts: Economic Issues

This report examines economic issues relating to across-the-board tax cuts, focusing primarily on distributional issues. The report is divided into four sections. The first section provides a general overview of the tax system. The next discusses recent proposals relating to across-the-board tax cuts. The third section discusses methods of evaluating alternative types of across-the-board tax cuts. The final section briefly discusses issues of efficiency, simplicity, and stabilization policy.
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Child Tax Credit and the President's Tax Cut Plan (open access)

The Child Tax Credit and the President's Tax Cut Plan

The child tax credit was enacted as part of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. The current credit is $500 per qualifying child. President Bush has proposed increasing the child tax credit to $1,000 per qualifying child. The President has also proposed making permanent the temporary rule in current law that allows the child tax credit to offset a taxpayer’s alternative minimum tax.
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: Esenwein, Gregg A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulation of Broadcast Indecency: Background and Legal Analysis (open access)

Regulation of Broadcast Indecency: Background and Legal Analysis

Two prominent television events in the past two years placed increased attention on the FCC and its indecency regulations. The airing of the 2003 Golden Globe Awards and the subsequent ruling by the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, coupled with the controversy surrounding the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, brought broadcast indecency to the forefront of the congressional agenda during the 108th Congress. Several bills were introduced, but not enacted, in the 108th Congress to increase the penalties imposed for broadcast indecency and to prohibit the broadcast of certain words and phrases in any grammatical form. Similar legislation has been introduced in the 109th Congress.
Date: March 30, 2005
Creator: Welborn, Angie A. & Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aviation Security-Related Findings and Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission (open access)

Aviation Security-Related Findings and Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission

In response to the 9/11 Commission’s aviation security-related recommendations, two bills — H.R. 5121 and H.R. 10 — introduced in the House contain several provisions to enhance aviation security. Additionally, floor amendments to S. 2845, the National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004, contain numerous aviation security provisions, many of which address 9/11 Commission recommendations related to aviation safety. S. 2845 was passed (96-2) by the Senate on October 6, 2004. The House passed H.R. 10 on October 8 by a vote of 282-134. A conference has been requested to resolve numerous differences between H.R. 10 and S. 2845.
Date: March 30, 2005
Creator: Elias, Bartholomew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Potential Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress

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Date: March 30, 2005
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nebraska Emergency Management and Homeland Security Authorities Summarized (open access)

Nebraska Emergency Management and Homeland Security Authorities Summarized

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Date: March 30, 2004
Creator: Bea, Keith; Richardson, Sula P.; Runyon, L. Cheryl & Warnock, Kae M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Hampshire Emergency Management and Homeland Security Authorities Summarized (open access)

New Hampshire Emergency Management and Homeland Security Authorities Summarized

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Date: March 30, 2004
Creator: Bea, Keith; Reese, Shawn; Runyon, L. Cheryl & Warnock, Kae M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Medicaid Program Administration: A Brief Overview (open access)

State Medicaid Program Administration: A Brief Overview

Medicaid is jointly financed by the federal and state governments, but each state designs and administers its own program within broad federal guidelines. This report provides a brief overview of the Medicaid program administration at the state level and includes information on organization, responsibilities, and expenditures. It also describes policy issues and proposals related to state Medicaid program administration that has attracted recent attention. It will be updated as legislative or other activity warrants.
Date: March 30, 2005
Creator: Grady, April
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulation of Naked Short Selling (open access)

Regulation of Naked Short Selling

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Date: March 30, 2005
Creator: Jickling, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Department and Related Agencies: FY2006 Appropriations and FY2007 Request (open access)

State Department and Related Agencies: FY2006 Appropriations and FY2007 Request

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Date: March 30, 2006
Creator: Epstein, Susan B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution (open access)

Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution

This report discusses Iraqi government in the wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Elections in 2005 for a transitional National Assembly and government (January 30, 2005), a permanent constitution (October 15), and a permanent (four year) Council of Representatives and government (December 15) were concluded despite insurgent violence and attracted progressively increasing Sunni participation. However, escalating sectarian violence and factional infighting have delayed formation of a new government.
Date: March 30, 2006
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized System of Preferences (open access)

Generalized System of Preferences

This report discusses the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), which provides preferential tariff treatment to certain products that are imported from designated developing countries. The primary purpose of the program, which the United States and other industrial countries initiated in the 1970s, is to promote economic growth in developing countries and countries in transition by stimulating their exports. The program was last reauthorized through December 31, 2006, by the 107th Congress in section 4101 of the Trade Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-210).
Date: March 30, 2006
Creator: Cooper, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library