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Endangered Species: Difficult Choices (open access)

Endangered Species: Difficult Choices

This report discusses issues debated in the 107th Congress while is considering various proposals to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). Major issues in recent years have included changing the role of science in decision-making, changing the role of critical habitat, reducing conflicts with Department of Defense activities, incorporating further protection for property owners, and increasing protection of listed species, among others. In addition, many have advocated including significant changes to ESA regulations made during the Clinton Administration in the law itself.
Date: December 8, 2003
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.; Corn, M. Lynne & Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Guide to Major Congressional and Presidential Awards (open access)

A Guide to Major Congressional and Presidential Awards

This report is designed to help congressional offices obtain information about major awards given by Congress and the President. It lists details about the establishment, criteria, selection process, and presentation of each of the major presidential and congressional awards: Congressional Award, Congressional Gold Medal, Medal of Honor, Presidential Citizens Medal, and Presidential Medal of Freedom. Brief entries are provided for additional awards made by the President including two new military medals for service in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT): the GWOT Expeditionary Medal and the GWOT Service Medal. Contact information is provided for the organization responsible for making the award and for more data about an award. References to CRS products on awards are also given. This report will be updated as necessary.
Date: December 16, 2003
Creator: Salazar, Barbara A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salaries of Members of Congress: A List of Payable Rates and Effective Dates, 1789-2003 (open access)

Salaries of Members of Congress: A List of Payable Rates and Effective Dates, 1789-2003

This report summarizes by what measures the Constitution requires Congress to determine its own pay, the annual payment adjustment procedure, changes in pay over time since 1789, and related legislation.
Date: December 1, 2003
Creator: Dwyer, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salaries of Members of Congress: Current Procedures and Recent Adjustments (open access)

Salaries of Members of Congress: Current Procedures and Recent Adjustments

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Date: December 1, 2003
Creator: Dwyer, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Trafficking and North Korea: Issues for U.S. Policy (open access)

Drug Trafficking and North Korea: Issues for U.S. Policy

At least 50 documented incidents in more than 20 countries around the world, many involving arrest or detention of North Korean diplomats, link North Korea to drug trafficking. Such events, in the context of credible, but unproven, allegations of large scale state sponsorship of drug production and trafficking, raise important issues for the United States and its allies in combating international drug trafficking. The challenge to policy makers is how to pursue an effective counter drug policy and comply with U.S. law which may require cutting off aid to North Korea while pursuing other high-priority U.S. foreign policy objectives including (1) limiting possession and production of weapons of mass destruction; (2) limiting ballistic missile production and export; (3) curbing terrorism, counterfeiting, and international crime; and (4) addressing humanitarian needs.
Date: December 5, 2003
Creator: Perl, Raphael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Financing (open access)

Campaign Financing

This is one report in the series of reports that discuss the campaign finance practices and related issues. Concerns over financing federal elections have become a seemingly perennial aspect of our political system, centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs and reliance on interest groups for needed campaign funds. The report talks about the today’s paramount issues such as perceived loopholes in current law and the longstanding issues: overall costs, funding sources, and competition.
Date: December 15, 2003
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
India-U.S. Relations (open access)

India-U.S. Relations

This report summarizes India-US relations from 1947 in preparation for the 2004 National elections, including information about bilateral relations, nuclear testing, separatist movements, and human rights issues.
Date: December 3, 2003
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan-U.S. Relations (open access)

Pakistan-U.S. Relations

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Date: December 2, 2003
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan: Chronology of Events (open access)

Pakistan: Chronology of Events

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Date: December 2, 2003
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
India: Chronology of Events (open access)

India: Chronology of Events

This report provides a reverse chronology of major events involving India and India - U.S relations.
Date: December 3, 2003
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salaries of Federal Officials: A Fact Sheet (open access)

Salaries of Federal Officials: A Fact Sheet

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Date: December 4, 2003
Creator: Gressle, Sharon S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Port and Maritime Security: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Port and Maritime Security: Background and Issues for Congress

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Date: December 5, 2003
Creator: Frittelli, John F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maritime Security: Overview of Issues (open access)

Maritime Security: Overview of Issues

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Date: December 5, 2003
Creator: Frittelli, John F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Islamic Traditions of Wahhabism and Salafiyya (open access)

The Islamic Traditions of Wahhabism and Salafiyya

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and subsequent investigations of these attacks have called attention to Islamic puritanical movements known as Wahhabism and Salafiyya. This report provides a background on Wahhabi Islam and its association to militant fundamentalist groups; it will also summarize recent charges against Wahhabism and responses.
Date: December 22, 2003
Creator: Armanios, Febe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Social Security Protection Act of 2003 (H.R. 743) (open access)

The Social Security Protection Act of 2003 (H.R. 743)

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Date: December 12, 2003
Creator: Nuschler, Dawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapon Initiatives: Low-Yield R&D, Advanced Concepts, Earth Penetrators, Test Readiness (open access)

Nuclear Weapon Initiatives: Low-Yield R&D, Advanced Concepts, Earth Penetrators, Test Readiness

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Date: December 11, 2003
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism and National Security: Issues and Trends (open access)

Terrorism and National Security: Issues and Trends

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Date: December 22, 2003
Creator: Perl, Raphael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change (open access)

Global Climate Change

This report briefly reviews the status of climate science, international negotiations, and congressional activity focused specifically on climate change.
Date: December 19, 2003
Creator: Justus, John R. & Fletcher, Susan R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A CRS Review of 10 States: Home and Community-Based Services — States Seek to Change the Face of Long-Term Care: Indiana (open access)

A CRS Review of 10 States: Home and Community-Based Services — States Seek to Change the Face of Long-Term Care: Indiana

Many states have devoted significant efforts to respond to the desire for home and community-based care for persons with disabilities and their families. Nevertheless, financing of nursing home care, chiefly by Medicaid, still dominates most states’ spending for long-term care today. To assist Congress in understanding issues that states face in providing long-term care services, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) undertook a study of 10 states in 2002. This report, one in a series of 10 state reports, presents background and analysis about long-term care in Indiana.
Date: December 15, 2003
Creator: Tilly, Jane; O'Shaughnessy, Carol & Weissert, Rob
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liberia: 1989-1997 Civil War, Post-War Developments, and U.S. Relations (open access)

Liberia: 1989-1997 Civil War, Post-War Developments, and U.S. Relations

This report covers Liberia’s first civil conflict (1989-1997), post-war developments until roughly 2001, and the history of U.S.-Liberian relations and U.S. policy toward Liberia.
Date: December 31, 2003
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
21st Century Community Learning Centers: Evaluation and Implementation Issues (open access)

21st Century Community Learning Centers: Evaluation and Implementation Issues

The 21st CCLC program was originally authorized as Part I of Title X, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended. This program was reauthorized as part of the reauthorization of the ESEA by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, P.L. 107-110, and was signed into law on January 8, 2002. This report discusses implementation of the reauthorized 21st CCLC program, and the recent evaluation of the program and its implications.
Date: December 16, 2003
Creator: McCallion, Gail
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: International Attitudes to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Reconstruction (open access)

Iraq: International Attitudes to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Reconstruction

Although there was widespread international disagreement in the period leading up to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, forty-nine countries demonstrated support for the coalition’s actions in Iraq by publicly agreeing to be included in the Bush Administration’s “coalition of the willing." This report tracks countries’ current political stances on the postwar situation, as well as major foreign monetary and military contributions to postwar Iraq.
Date: December 18, 2003
Creator: Hildreth, Steven A.; Sharp, Jeremy; Caesar, Melanie; Frost, Adam & Machart, Helene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 18, No. 33, Pages 24668 to 25603, November 24 - December 5, 2003 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 18, No. 33, Pages 24668 to 25603, November 24 - December 5, 2003

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: December 2003
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 18, No. 35, Pages 26541 to 27078, December 22 - December 31, 2003 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 18, No. 35, Pages 26541 to 27078, December 22 - December 31, 2003

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: December 2003
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library