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9/11 Commission Recommendations: Intelligence Budget
This report identifies the main recommendations of the 9/11 Commission with respect to the intelligence budget. This report also describes the intelligence budget process under current law to explain the effect of these recommendations and presents the current budget authorities of the Director of Central Intelligence, as well as budget provisions in two bills, S. 2774 and H.R. 5040, that include all Commission recommendations.
Date:
September 27, 2004
Creator:
Nicola, Thomas J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
9/11 Commission Recommendations: New Structures and Organization
This report discusses proposals addressing shortcomings concerning civil liberties protection, development, intelligence community management. and intelligence expertise as well as implications assessment. This report displays a chronology of development about the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.
Date:
September 1, 2004
Creator:
Relyea, Harold C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
9/11 Terrorism: Global Economic Costs
This report provides a brief survey of the global economic costs of 9/11.
Date:
September 15, 2004
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Accounting Reform After Enron: Issues in the 108th Congress
This report discusses the anxieties within Congress in the wake of the Enron scandal. Moreover, the report notes that the 108th Congress is not likely to pass legislative reform as extreme as the 107th Congress, but will still confront issues of accounting reform. The report also highlights what the 108th Congress plans to reform.
Date:
September 15, 2004
Creator:
Jickling, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Biotechnology: Overview and Selected Issues
This report considers the issues surrounding genetically engineered (GE) crops or GMO's (genetically modified organisms). Moreover, the report debates the consequences of GE crops on the environment, food safety, and labeling. The report also debates the merits of regulation on the market the crops have entered.
Date:
September 29, 2004
Creator:
Johnson, Barbara A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
AIDS in Africa
This report discusses the AIDS issues in Africa and the Bush administration call to double U.S. international funding for AIDS.
Date:
September 17, 2004
Creator:
Copson, Raymond W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Pollution Emission Control: Existing Technologies and Mercury Cobenefits
This report considers the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) use of stationary sources to reduce air pollutant emissions. Specifically, when these technologies reduce pollutants that they were not necessarily designed for which creates cobenefits.
Date:
September 15, 2004
Creator:
Shea, Dana A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress
This report consists of alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles: Issues in Congress.
Date:
September 9, 2004
Creator:
Yacobucci, Brent D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT): Income Entry Points and “Take Back” Effects
This report examines the alternative minimum tax for individuals (AMT), which was originally enacted to ensure that high-income taxpayers paid a fair share of the federal income tax.
Date:
September 17, 2004
Creator:
Esenwein, Gregg
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2005: Department of Homeland Security
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 Homeland Security.
Date:
September 20, 2004
Creator:
Lake, Jennifer E. & Nuñez-Neto, Blas
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2005: U.S. Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies
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 Agriculture.
Date:
September 23, 2004
Creator:
Chite, Ralph M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Controversies for the 108th Congress
This report discusses the ongoing debate about whether or not to approve energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Current law forbids energy leasing in the Refuge. This report addresses several legislative options on the issue, as well as policymakers' arguments for and against development, especially in the wake of increasing terrorism since 2000-2001.
Date:
September 29, 2004
Creator:
Corn, M. Lynne; Gelb, Bernard A. & Baldwin, Pamela
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Armenia Update
This report is an update regarding Armenia's experience of domestic political turmoil since independence.
Date:
September 3, 2004
Creator:
Migdalovitz, Carol
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works Program: Issues for Congress
This report presents the issues considered by the 108th Congress related to the civil works program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). The Corps plans, constructs, and operates water resources facilities primarily for flood control, navigation, and environmental purposes.
Date:
September 3, 2004
Creator:
Carter, Nicole T. & Sheikh, Pervaze A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards
This report is about Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy.
Date:
September 17, 2004
Creator:
Bamberger, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Average Farm Subsidy Payments, by State, 2002
The U.S. Department of Agriculture makes direct subsidy payments through the Commodity Credit Corporation to farmers for commodity price and income support, certain conservation and environmental activities, and some disaster losses. In 2002, these direct farm subsidy payments amounted to $12.151 billion. This report examines the distribution of these payments among states, calculates the average size of payments going to recipient farms in each state, and distinguishes between payments received by farm operators and landlords. This information is intended to aid in policy debates about subsidizing some farms but not others, changing per-person payment limits, and the altering eligibility rules for landlords to receive payments.
Date:
September 16, 2004
Creator:
Womach, Jasper
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Black Lung Excise Tax on Coal
This report contains the black lung excise on coal.
Date:
September 15, 2004
Creator:
Lazzari, Slavatore
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Bunker Busters": Sources of Confusion in the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Debate
The Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP), often called a “bunker buster,” is at present the subject of a cost and feasibility study to determine if either of two nuclear bombs, the B61 and the B83, could be modified, mainly by adding a heavy, pointed case, so as to be able to penetrate perhaps 10 meters into earth or rock. This penetration would increase the weapon’s ability, by a factor of 20 to 50, to destroy hardened and deeply buried facilities. The RNEP debate has received much attention and spawned much confusion. This report examines sources of confusion in this debate.
Date:
September 22, 2004
Creator:
Medalia, Jonathan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Finance: Constitutional and Legal Issues of Soft Money
Prior to enactment of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA), P.L. 107-155, the term “soft money” generally referred to unregulated funds, perceived as resulting from loopholes in the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), 2 U.S.C. §§ 431 et seq. Generally, the intent of BCRA, (effective Nov. 6, 2002), which amends FECA, is to restrict the raising and spending of soft money. This Issue Brief discusses constitutional and legal issues surrounding two major types of soft money that BCRA regulates: political party soft money and soft money used for issue advocacy communications. Corporate and labor union soft money, which FECA exempts from regulation and is not addressed by BCRA, is also discussed.
Date:
September 3, 2004
Creator:
Whitaker, L. Paige
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Child Welfare Issues in the 108th Congress
The purpose of this report is to present a number of generally less broad legislative proposals related to child welfare financing have been introduced in the 108th Congress. Additional child welfare-related proposals designed to improve services, promote timely placement of children across state lines, and for other purposes, are described in this report.
Date:
September 17, 2004
Creator:
Stoltzfus, Emilie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Clinical Trials Reporting and Publication
The recent focus on public access to pediatric clinical trial data for certain selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other antidepressants has highlighted the issues surrounding public access to clinical trial data generally. This report contains information on recent events regarding this issue.
Date:
September 23, 2004
Creator:
Williams, Erin & Thaul, Susan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Commemorative Observances: A Chronological List
Historically, national commemorative observances were recommended by Congress through the legislative process. This practice was discontinued by the House of Representatives in January 1995, although the Senate continues to issue sense of the Senate resolutions recommending the establishment of commemoratives. It has now become standard practice for special observances to be designated by a proclamation issued by the President. This report is a chronological list of these proclamations for 1997 and 1998, indicating the proclamation number and its Federal Register citation
Date:
September 7, 2004
Creator:
Fischer, Hannah
System:
The UNT Digital Library