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: December 7, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
First Responder Grant Formulas: The 9/11 Commission Recommendation and Other Options for Congressional Action (open access)

First Responder Grant Formulas: The 9/11 Commission Recommendation and Other Options for Congressional Action

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Date: October 7, 2004
Creator: Reese, Shawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Legislative Procedures: Published Sources of Information (open access)

Senate Legislative Procedures: Published Sources of Information

The Senate publishes its rules, precedents, and other related information so that Senators and their staff have convenient access to the Senate’s legislative procedures and can gauge how those procedures are likely to apply in various situations. Information about the Senate’s legislative procedures is published in four official documents. This report discusses these documents.
Date: January 7, 2004
Creator: Davis, Christopher M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues (open access)

Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues

This report includes background, issues, and legislation regarding safe drinking water.
Date: July 7, 2004
Creator: Tiemann, Mary
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remedies Available to Victims of Identity Theft (open access)

Remedies Available to Victims of Identity Theft

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Date: September 7, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
China’s Currency Peg: A Summary of the Economic Issues (open access)

China’s Currency Peg: A Summary of the Economic Issues

This report evaluates assertions, and considers other effects China's peg has on the U.S. economy. This report also summarizes the analysis presented in CRS Report RL32165, "China's Exchange Rate Peg: Economic Issues and Options for U.S. Trade Policy".
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M. & Labonte, Marc
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment (open access)

Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment

This report provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment -- of the ways that the Supreme Court has interpreted the guarantee of freedom of speech and press to provide no protection or only limited protection for some types of speech.
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
War On Drugs: Legislation in the 108th Congress and Related Developments (open access)

War On Drugs: Legislation in the 108th Congress and Related Developments

This report covers significant legislative and oversight activities of the 108th Congress that concern domestic law enforcement aspects of federal anti-drug policy. Also included will be significant executive branch actions and other current developments of likely interest to the congressional audience that follows this issue.
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Eddy, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Overrides of Presidential Vetoes (open access)

Congressional Overrides of Presidential Vetoes

This report discusses Congress' power to override presidential vetoes. The President's veto authority is among his most significant tools in legislative dealings with Congress. It is effective not only in preventing the passage of legislation undesirable to the President, but also as a threat, sometimes forcing Congress to modify legislation before it is presented to the President.
Date: April 7, 2004
Creator: Sollenberger, Mitchel A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Vetoes, 1789-Present: A Summary Overview (open access)

Presidential Vetoes, 1789-Present: A Summary Overview

This report discusses the veto power vested in the President by Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution. It provides a general overview and a table of presidential vetoes from 1789-2004, listing the coincident Congresses, regular vetoes, pocket vetoes, total vetoes, and vetoes overridden for each president.
Date: April 7, 2004
Creator: Sollenberger, Mitchel A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bills and Resolutions: Examples of How Each Kind Is Used (open access)

Bills and Resolutions: Examples of How Each Kind Is Used

This report briefly describes the process by which Congress seeks to pass a law. During this process Congress uses a bill or joint resolution, which must be passed by both houses in identical form, that is then presented to the President for his approval or disapproval.
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Beth, Richard S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
President Clinton's Vetoes (open access)

President Clinton's Vetoes

This report provides a table outlining the bills vetoed by President William Jefferson Clinton's two terms in office. It includes an overview and the bill number, date, title, and override attempts for each veto.
Date: April 7, 2004
Creator: Sollenberger, Mitchel A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Missile Defense: The Current Debate (open access)

Missile Defense: The Current Debate

This report provides background information on the Bush Administration's proposed approach toward the development and deployment of missile defense. It also discusses key related issues.
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Hildreth, Steven A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetically Engineered Fish and Seafood (open access)

Genetically Engineered Fish and Seafood

This is a report on Genetically Engineered Fish and seafood, with are supposed to have inherited traits to have improved organisms due to the genetical engineering.
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Borgatti, Rachel & Buck, Eugene H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid Expenditures, FY2001 and FY2002 (open access)

Medicaid Expenditures, FY2001 and FY2002

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Date: June 7, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Streamlining Environmental Reviews of Highway and Transit Projects: Analysis of Legislative Proposals During the 108th Congress (open access)
Lead in Drinking Water: Washington, DC Issues and Broader Regulatory Implications (open access)

Lead in Drinking Water: Washington, DC Issues and Broader Regulatory Implications

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Date: October 7, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anti-Corruption Standards of the International Financial Institutions (open access)

Anti-Corruption Standards of the International Financial Institutions

This report is on the Anti-Corruption Standards of the International Financial Institutions.
Date: July 7, 2004
Creator: Langton, Danielle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commemorative Observances: A Chronological List (open access)

Commemorative Observances: A Chronological List

his report is a chronological list of these proclamations for 2002 and 2003, indicating the proclamation number and its Federal Register citation.
Date: September 7, 2004
Creator: Fischer, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: June 7, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tobacco-Related Programs and Activities of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: Operation and Cost (open access)

Tobacco-Related Programs and Activities of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: Operation and Cost

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Date: June 7, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Australia, the Southwest Pacific, and United States Interests (open access)

Australia, the Southwest Pacific, and United States Interests

This report discusses the details related to U.S interests in the South-west Pacific, U.S - Australian strategic relationships, Australia's role in the region, and China's growing regional influence
Date: January 7, 2004
Creator: Lum, Thomas & Vaughn, Bruce
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visa Issuances: Policy, Issues, and Legislation (open access)

Visa Issuances: Policy, Issues, and Legislation

This report opens with an overview of visa issuances, with sections on procedures for aliens coming to live in the United States permanently and on procedures for aliens admitted for temporary stays. It includes a discussion of visa screening policies, including inadmissibility, databases, an analysis of visa refusals, biometric visas and other major visa policy procedures. Summaries of key laws revising visa policy enacted in the 107th Congress follows. The final section analyzes selected issues in the 108th Congress, notably the 9/11 Commission recommendations, visa revocation and removal, new technologies, potential impact on business, and other security concerns.
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-French Commercial Ties (open access)

U.S.-French Commercial Ties

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Date: July 7, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library