Tobacco Price Support: An Overview of the Program (open access)

Tobacco Price Support: An Overview of the Program

About 94 percent of U.S. tobacco production is flue-cured and burley (cigarette tobacco types). These crops are particularly important to the agriculture of North Carolina and Kentucky. The federal tobacco price support program is designed to support and stabilize prices for farmers.
Date: June 25, 2004
Creator: Womach, Jasper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Premiums: Fact Sheet (open access)

Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Premiums: Fact Sheet

Financing for social security -- Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance -- and the Hospital Insurance part of Medicare is provided primarily by taxes levied on wages and net self-employment income. Financing for the Supplementary Medical Insurance portion of Medicare is provided by premiums from enrollees and payments from the government. This report describes these taxes and premiums.
Date: January 13, 2004
Creator: Nuschler, Dawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brief Facts About Congressional Pensions (open access)

Brief Facts About Congressional Pensions

This report contains a table that lists the number of retired Members of Congress and the average amount of congressional pension they receive in retirement.
Date: January 13, 2004
Creator: Purcell, Patrick J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Job Loss: Causes and Policy Implications (open access)

Job Loss: Causes and Policy Implications

This report provides an overview of the causes and policy implications of job loss in the United States.
Date: January 12, 2004
Creator: Labonte, Marc
System: The UNT Digital Library
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests (open access)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests

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Date: November 10, 2004
Creator: Nichol, Jim
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Rulemaking: The Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (open access)

Federal Rulemaking: The Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

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Date: May 28, 2004
Creator: Copeland, Curtis W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abortion: Legislative Response (open access)

Abortion: Legislative Response

The primary focus of this issue brief is legislative action with respect to abortion. However, discussion of those legislative proposals necessarily involves a brief discussion of the leading U.S. Supreme Court decisions concerning a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate her pregnancy. For a more detailed discussion of the relevant case law, see CRS Report 95-724, Abortion Law Development: A Brief Overview.
Date: November 22, 2004
Creator: Lewis, Karen J.; Shimabukuro, Jon O. & Ely, Dana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dietary Supplements: Ephedra (open access)

Dietary Supplements: Ephedra

This report will attempt to clarify the current regulatory status of dietary supplement products containing ephedra.
Date: February 4, 2004
Creator: Porter, Donna V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unauthorized Aliens in the United States: Estimates Since 1986 (open access)

Unauthorized Aliens in the United States: Estimates Since 1986

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Date: September 15, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Iraq Marshes: Restoration Activities. June 2004 (open access)

The Iraq Marshes: Restoration Activities. June 2004

This report discusses the status of restoration activities and funding.
Date: June 15, 2004
Creator: Powers, Kyna
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education Matters: Earnings by Educational Attainment Over Three Decades (open access)

Education Matters: Earnings by Educational Attainment Over Three Decades

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Date: November 17, 2004
Creator: Levine, Linda
System: The UNT Digital Library
9/11 Commission Recommendations: Intelligence Budget (open access)

9/11 Commission Recommendations: Intelligence Budget

This report describes recommendations of the 9/11 Commission as pertains to the intelligence budget.
Date: October 23, 2004
Creator: Nicola, Thomas J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Home Health — Benefits and Payments (open access)

Medicare Home Health — Benefits and Payments

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Date: April 12, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motor Carrier Safety: Oversight and Reauthorization Legislation (open access)

Motor Carrier Safety: Oversight and Reauthorization Legislation

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Date: June 8, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Presidential and Vice Presidential Terms and Tenure (open access)

Presidential and Vice Presidential Terms and Tenure

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Date: August 23, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distance Education and Title IV of the Higher Education Act: Policy, Practice, and Reauthorization (open access)

Distance Education and Title IV of the Higher Education Act: Policy, Practice, and Reauthorization

This report explores the growth of DE into a significant component of the modern post secondary education landscape and then examines a number of issues involved in the debate surrounding HEA reauthorization.
Date: July 26, 2004
Creator: Kuenzi, Jeffrey J.; Skinner, Rebecca R. & Smole, David P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Middle East Peace Talks (open access)

The Middle East Peace Talks

This report includes information regarding Middle East peace talks. The role of the United States, the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and congressional aid are among topics discussed in this report.
Date: December 23, 2004
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
System: The UNT Digital Library
Capital Punishment: Summary of Supreme Court Decisions of the 2003-2004 Term (open access)

Capital Punishment: Summary of Supreme Court Decisions of the 2003-2004 Term

This report is a Summary of Supreme Court Decisions of the 2003-2004 Term related to Capital Punishment.
Date: August 12, 2004
Creator: Wallace, Paul Starett, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Homeland Security: Options for House and Senate Committee Organization (open access)

Department of Homeland Security: Options for House and Senate Committee Organization

This report contains an overview of the options for house and senate committee organization on the Department of Homeland Security since the terrorist attacks of 2001.
Date: August 13, 2004
Creator: Schneider, Judy & Rundquist, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Foreign Trade in Services: Definition, Patterns and Policy Challenges (open access)

U.S. Foreign Trade in Services: Definition, Patterns and Policy Challenges

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Date: December 22, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Forest System Roadless Areas Initiative (open access)

The National Forest System Roadless Areas Initiative

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Date: July 15, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: Terrorism List Removal? (open access)

North Korea: Terrorism List Removal?

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Date: August 12, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
H.R. 1417: The Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 (open access)

H.R. 1417: The Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004

H.R. 1417, 108th Congress, first session, was introduced on March 25, 2003 and passed by the House on March 3, 2004. If enacted, this bill would make extensive changed to the procedural framework for adjudicating royalty rates for compulsory licenses under the Copyright Act. This report details the background and legislative action on the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004.
Date: September 27, 2004
Creator: Jeweler, Robin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Topics in Aging: Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2002 (open access)

Topics in Aging: Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2002

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Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library