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Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 19 November 1871 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 19 November 1871

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: November 19, 1871
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medicare: Changes to Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA 97, P.L. 105-33) Provisions (open access)

Medicare: Changes to Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA 97, P.L. 105-33) Provisions

This report summarizes the major provisions of the agreement between the by House and Senate negotiators on the Medicare provisions.
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: O'Sullivan, Jennifer; Merck, Carolyn L.; Smith, Madeleine T. & Tilson, Sibyl L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy, November 19, 2002 (open access)

Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy, November 19, 2002

This report discusses congressional interest in the pace of U.S. technological advancement due to its influence on U.S. economic growth, productivity, and international competitiveness. The proper role of the federal government in technology development and the competitiveness of U.S. industry continues to be a topic of congressional debate.
Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Casework in a Congressional Office (open access)

Casework in a Congressional Office

This report and its appendices present a general overview of congressional office procedures associated with handling casework and the assistance provided by a Member of Congress to help constituents in their dealings with federal agencies. It discusses options for assisting Members’ constituents and the role of Members and staff in providing casework services.
Date: November 19, 1996
Creator: Pontius, John S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Nonproliferation Issues (open access)

Nuclear Nonproliferation Issues

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Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
POWs and MIAs: Status and Accounting Issues (open access)

POWs and MIAs: Status and Accounting Issues

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Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Goldich, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Weapons Threat, Compliance, Sanctions, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Iraq: Weapons Threat, Compliance, Sanctions, and U.S. Policy

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Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kosovo: Lessons Learned from Operation (open access)

Kosovo: Lessons Learned from Operation

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Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: Gallis, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY1999: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (open access)

Appropriations for FY1999: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
Date: November 19, 1998
Creator: Irwin, Paul M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Insurance: Uninsured by State, 2001 (open access)

Health Insurance: Uninsured by State, 2001

An estimated 14.6% of the U.S. populations lacked health insurance coverage in 2001, up from 14% in 2000. When examined by state, estimates of the percent uninsured ranged from a low of 7.5% in Iowa to a high of 23.5% in Texas. Generally, states in the Midwest and New England have lower rates of uninsured, while states in the Southwestern and Southern portion of the nation have higher shares of their populations without coverage.
Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Morgan, Paulette C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Seattle Ministerial Conference (open access)

The World Trade Organization (WTO) Seattle Ministerial Conference

On November 30th to December 3rd, 1999, the highest decision-making body of the World Trade Organization (WTO), called the Ministerial Conference, will meet in Seattle to make broad policy decisions. The key issue for the trade ministers attending the meeting will be to decide on the structure and topics for the agenda of a new round of multilateral trade negotiations. Countries have committed to discuss agriculture and services trade in the new round. Other items that have been proposed for inclusion in the new round or for earlier consideration include tariff reductions, concessions for developing countries, labor issues and the environment, and the WTO decision-making process. Major labor, environmental, and consumer interest groups are expected to be present in Seattle to argue for more consideration of workers' rights and the environment within the WTO. This report provides a summary background on preparations for the Ministerial and related issues of congressional interest.
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: Sek, Lenore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative R&D: Federal Efforts to Promote Industrial Competitiveness (open access)

Cooperative R&D: Federal Efforts to Promote Industrial Competitiveness

In response to the foreign challenge in the global marketplace, the United States Congress has explored ways to stimulate technological advancement in the private sector. The government has supported various efforts to promote cooperative research and development activities among industry, universities, and the federal R&D establishment designed to increase the competitiveness of American industry and to encourage the generation of new products, processes, and services. Among the issues before Congress are whether joint ventures contribute to industrial competitiveness and what role, if any, the government has in facilitating such arrangements.
Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
TANF Sanctions - Brief Summary (open access)

TANF Sanctions - Brief Summary

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Date: November 19, 2001
Creator: Burke, Vee & Falk, Gene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Transfer: Use of Federally Funded Research and Development (open access)

Technology Transfer: Use of Federally Funded Research and Development

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Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade and the Americas (open access)

Trade and the Americas

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Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China's Trade with the United States and the World (open access)

China's Trade with the United States and the World

This report provides a quantitative framework for policy considerations dealing with U.S. trade with China. It provides basic data and analysis of China’s international trade with the United States and other countries. Since Chinese data differ considerably from those of its trading partners (because of how entrepot trade through Hong Kong is counted), data from both PRC sources and those of its trading partners are presented. Charts showing import trends by sector for the United States highlight China’s growing market shares in many industries and also show import shares for Japan, Canada, Mexico, the European Union, and the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN ).
Date: November 19, 2004
Creator: Lum, Thomas & Nanto, Dick K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China and the World Trade Organization (open access)

China and the World Trade Organization

China has sought over the past several years to become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the international agency that administers multilateral trade rules. In September 2001, China completed its multilateral negotiations with the WTO Working Party handling its accession application and reached a trade agreement with Mexico, the last of the original 37 WTO members that requested a bilateral trade agreement with China. China’s WTO membership (as well as that of Taiwan’s) was formally approved at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar in November 2001.
Date: November 19, 2001
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Tax Incentives of Domestic Manufacturing in Current Legislative Proposals (open access)

Comparison of Tax Incentives of Domestic Manufacturing in Current Legislative Proposals

This report presents two approaches that have quite different implications for tax administration and Compliance. First, additional domestic investment would have both a direct tax benefit effect, and an indirect effect through increasing the ratio of domestic to world production. Secondly, if one considers the other provisions of H.R. 2896 and S. 1637, these provisions provide benefits (in some cases quite large benefits) to investment overseas that could more than offset any domestic incentive.
Date: November 19, 2003
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
New IMF Conditionality Guidelines (open access)

New IMF Conditionality Guidelines

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Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Weiss, Martin A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Department Organization and Management (open access)

Homeland Security: Department Organization and Management

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Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Humane Treatment of Farm Animals: Overview and Issues (open access)

Humane Treatment of Farm Animals: Overview and Issues

Animal protection activists in the United States have long sought legislation to modify or curtail some practices considered by U.S. agriculture to be both acceptable and necessary to animal health. Some Members of Congress over the years have offered various bills that would affect animal care on the farm, during transport, or at slaughter. The House and Senate Agriculture Committees from time to time have held hearings on farm animal welfare issues, but their members generally express a preference for voluntary rather than regulatory approaches to humane methods of care. This report briefly provides an overview of the subject.
Date: November 19, 2004
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The BioWatch Program: Detection of Bioterrorism (open access)

The BioWatch Program: Detection of Bioterrorism

This report discusses some aspects of the BioWatch Program which may be of particular interest to policymakers. For example, Congress may be interested in whether these types of detection systems can substitute for or supplement other mechanisms in protecting the general populace; whether this detection system was implemented optimally; how the success of this system is to be evaluated; whether the implementation, operational, and expansion costs for the BioWatch Program make it a cost-effective federal investment; and how to optimize and streamline performance in the future. Since the BioWatch Program is a federal program implemented using state infrastructure, Congress may wish to examine how this new program coordinates with already existing public health and counterterrorism programs, as well as consider the roles and responsibilities of the federal government and coordination with state governments in an actual bioterrorism event.
Date: November 19, 2003
Creator: Shea, Dana A. & Lister, Sarah A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China-U.S. Trade (open access)

China-U.S. Trade

The improved political relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.), initiated by the Nixon Administration and furthered by the Carter Administration's decision to establish diplomatic relations, has spurred a rapid increase in Sino-U.S. trade. While still small relative to overall U.S. foreign trade, the volume of trade represents an abrupt shift from the no-trade policy that had been pursued since 1950. Despite the rapid expansion, outstanding issues remain as serious barriers to normalized trade. Resolution of those issues may require concession or accommodations by the Chinese leadership as well as action by both the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch. However, the development of a new approach to foreign economic relations by the post-Mao Chinese leadership and the establishment of diplomatic relations have laid the ground work for a further expansion of commercial relations.
Date: November 19, 1981
Creator: Holliday, George D. & Hardt, John P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposals for Revision of the Communications Act of 1934: Telecommunications Issues (open access)

Proposals for Revision of the Communications Act of 1934: Telecommunications Issues

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Date: November 19, 1982
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library