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Federal Pell Grants for Prisoners (open access)

Federal Pell Grants for Prisoners

This report includes a brief discussion of the Pell Grant program, and the prior participation of prisoners, as well as a review of the current legislative activity.
Date: December 14, 2004
Creator: Mercer, Charmaine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Regulations: Efforts to Estimate Total Costs and Benefits of Rules (open access)

Federal Regulations: Efforts to Estimate Total Costs and Benefits of Rules

This report provides information on how one widely cited study was developed to illustrate the complexities associated with this type of analysis. The report also provides information on how OMB's estimates of aggregate federal regulatory costs were developed and have varied over time, and on estimates that have been made of aggregate regulatory costs need to be interpreted and used carefully.
Date: May 14, 2004
Creator: Copeland, Curtis W.
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

This report includes information background and analysis regarding exemption for and agriculture products from United States economic sanctions. This report also details debates, enacted provisions, sales, and developments regarding this subject.
Date: December 14, 2004
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform (open access)

Social Security Reform

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Date: June 14, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: A Chronology, FY1970-FY2005 (open access)

Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: A Chronology, FY1970-FY2005

This report is a research aid, which lists the Department of Defense (DOD) authorization bills (Table 1) and appropriations bills (Table 2).
Date: December 14, 2004
Creator: Carter, Linwood B. & Coipuram, Thomas, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Enrollment in Section 401(k) Plans (open access)

Automatic Enrollment in Section 401(k) Plans

This is a report on Automatic Enrollment in section 401(k) plans.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Purcell, Patrick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Nutrition and WIC Programs: Background and Funding (open access)

Child Nutrition and WIC Programs: Background and Funding

This report provides information about the Background and Funding on Child Nutrition and WIC Programs. child nutrition programs provide free meals to lower-income children.The CACFP subsidies meals and snacks served by children.
Date: April 14, 2004
Creator: Richardson, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Authorization and Appropriations for FY2005: Defense (open access)

Authorization and Appropriations for FY2005: Defense

This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense. It summarizes the status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related congressional activity.
Date: December 14, 2004
Creator: Daggett, Stephen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Privileges and Courtesies Extended to Departing and Former Senators (open access)

Selected Privileges and Courtesies Extended to Departing and Former Senators

This report provides information on selected privileges and courtesies (with the exception of federal health insurance, life insurance, and retirement benefits) extended to departing and former Senators. Some are derived from law and Senate Rules, but most are courtesies that have been extended as a matter of custom.
Date: September 14, 2004
Creator: Amer, Mildred
System: The UNT Digital Library
Endangered Species: Difficult Choices (open access)

Endangered Species: Difficult Choices

This report discusses various measures being considered by Congress that propose to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). Major issues in recent years have focused on whether to incorporate further protection for property owners and reduce regulatory impacts, whether to increase the protection afforded listed species, or whether to modify various aspects of the ESA, such as the role of science in decision-making.
Date: June 14, 2004
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.; Corn, M. L. & Baldwin, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Enrollment in Section 401(k) Plans (open access)

Automatic Enrollment in Section 401(k) Plans

This report discusses enrollment practices for 401k retirement plans. Historically, most employers that have sponsored retirement savings plans under §401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) have required employees to decide whether to enroll in the plan. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued rulings to inform employers that current law allows them to enroll employees automatically, provided that the employee is notified in advance and is permitted to leave the plan.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Purcell, Patrick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Location of Federal Government Offices (open access)

Location of Federal Government Offices

This report discusses the legislative requirement for the offices of the U.S. government to be located in the District of Columbia (DC), dating to 1790. The report provides an overview of the relevant provisions (codified at 4 U.S.C. 71 and 72) and agencies that have exemptions.
Date: July 14, 2004
Creator: Halchin, L. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crime and Forfeiture (open access)

Crime and Forfeiture

This report provides information about Crime and Forfeiture. Forfeiture has been an effective law enforcement tool. Modern Forfeiture follows one of the two procedural routes.
Date: December 14, 2004
Creator: Doyle, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charitable Choice Provisions of H.R. 7 (open access)

Charitable Choice Provisions of H.R. 7

This documents explains the House's bill of president George Bush's faith-based initiatives.
Date: June 14, 2004
Creator: Burke, Vee
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: A Brief History of Its Evolution and Jurisdiction (open access)

House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: A Brief History of Its Evolution and Jurisdiction

This report provides a history of the creation and evolution of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Also known as the House Ethics Committee and the Committee on Standards, it was first established as a select committee in 1966. It became a standing committee in 1967. Since that time, it has undergone two major reorganizations, first in 1989, and again in 1997.
Date: July 14, 2004
Creator: Amer, Mildred
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Term Limits and Assignment Limitations (open access)

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Term Limits and Assignment Limitations

This report addresses issues related to the impact on the Intelligence Committee if term limits are abolished and other assignment questions addressed in S. Res. 445.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Schneider, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gasoline Supply: The Role of Imports (open access)

Gasoline Supply: The Role of Imports

This report contains the role of imports on gasoline supply.
Date: September 14, 2004
Creator: Kumins, Lawrence C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public Safety, Interoperability and the Transition to Digital Television (open access)

Public Safety, Interoperability and the Transition to Digital Television

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Date: December 14, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The International Monetary Fund: Current Reforms (open access)

The International Monetary Fund: Current Reforms

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Date: April 14, 2004
Creator: unknown
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: September 14, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Act Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Clean Air Act Issues in the 108th Congress

This report provides information about the Clean Air Act Issues in the 106th Congress. Congress last enacted major amendments to the clear air act in 1990 and EPA is in the midst of implementing numerous provisions of those amendments.
Date: September 14, 2004
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Avian Influenza: Multiple Strains Cause Different Effects Worldwide (open access)

Avian Influenza: Multiple Strains Cause Different Effects Worldwide

This report Addresses Multiple Strains Cause Different Effects Worldwide of Avian Influenza.
Date: May 14, 2004
Creator: Monke, Jim
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Canada Wheat Trade Dispute (open access)

U.S.-Canada Wheat Trade Dispute

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Date: June 14, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Hydrogen Economy and Fuel Cells: An Overview (open access)

A Hydrogen Economy and Fuel Cells: An Overview

This report discusses six key questions related to the hydrogen economy and fuel cells.
Date: January 14, 2004
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D. & Curtright, Aimee E.
System: The UNT Digital Library