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Particulate Matter (PM2.5): National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Implementation
None
Date:
January 7, 2005
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Directives: Background and Overview
This report provides an overview of the different kinds of directives that have primarily been utilized by twentieth-century Presidents. It includes background on the historical development, accounting, use, and effect of such directives.
Date:
January 7, 2005
Creator:
Relyea, Harold C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Security Classification Policy and Procedure: E.O. 12958, as Amended
None
Date:
January 7, 2005
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Security Classification Policy and Procedure: E.O. 12958, as Amended
None
Date:
January 7, 2005
Creator:
Relyea, Harold C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Singapore: Background and U.S. Relations
None
Date:
January 7, 2005
Creator:
Chanlett-Avery, Emma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Federal, State, and Local Programs
The recruitment and retention of a high-quality teaching force is critical to the future success of our nation's school system. To address this issue, a wide range of programs have been put into place at the federal, state, and local levels in recent years. This report is to review the range of these efforts nationwide and provide a context for the issues that may yet arise during HEA reauthorization.
Date:
January 7, 2005
Creator:
Kuenzi, Jeffrey J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Terrorist Attacks and National Emergencies Act Declarations
None
Date:
January 7, 2005
Creator:
Relyea, Harold C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
TRIO and GEAR UP Programs: Status and Issues
None
Date:
January 7, 2005
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft
The V-22 Osprey is a tilt-rotor aircraft that takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter and flies like a plane by tilting its wing-mounted rotors to function as propellers. Combining a helicopter’s operational flexibility with the greater speed, range, and efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft, the V-22 can perform such missions as troop/cargo transport, amphibious assault, special operations, and search and rescue operations.
Date:
January 7, 2005
Creator:
Bolkcom, Christopher
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Senate Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments
This report briefly examines Senate Rule XXV and party conference rules that address committee assignments. It includes a table for A, B, and C committees with an overview of limitations and procedures.
Date:
January 8, 2005
Creator:
Schneider, Judy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gangs in Central America
This report provides information about the Gangs in Central America. In the past year, there has been an increasing effect on the effects of crime and gang violence in Central America.
Date:
January 9, 2005
Creator:
Ribando, Clare M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assistance to Firefighters Program: Distribution of Fire Grant Funding
The report discusses the FY 2001 Grants, FY 2002 Grants, FY 2003 Grants and FY 2004 Grants. It also points out the distribution of Fire Grants and Program Evaluation.
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Kruger, Lennard G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Availability of Legislative Proposals in the House of Representatives (The "Three-Day Rule")
House rules govern the length of time legislative proposals must be available to Members prior to being considered on the floor. For measures reported from committee, the committee report must have been available for three calendar days. Conference reports must also have been available for three calendar days, and special rules for considering measures for one legislative day. The House, however, also has several means by which it can choose to waive these availability requirements and call up, debate, and vote on a measure in a single calendar day, even if the text of the measure was not made available prior to consideration.
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Rybicki, Elizabeth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Bunker Busters": Sources of Confusion in the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Debate
Earth penetrator weapons, often called “bunker busters,” burrow into the ground some tens of feet before detonating, greatly increasing their ability to destroy buried targets. The United States has several types of conventional earth penetrators. The Air Force and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are studying a more effective penetrator, the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP). The FY2005 defense authorization act contained the full RNEP request, $27.6 million. This report explains the budget request and provides details on the RNEP plan.
Date:
January 10, 2005
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. The general intent of BCRA, (effective November 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:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Whitaker, L. Paige
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Collaborative R&D and the Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act
None
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Schacht, Wendy H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Continuing Appropriations Acts: Brief Overview of Recent Practices
This report is divided into two segments. The first segment provides the most recent developments and content of the FY2005 continuing resolutions. The second segment provides information on the history of CRs; the nature, scope, and duration of CRs during the last 35 years; the types of CRs that have been enacted; and an overview of those instances when funding (or budget authority2) has lapsed and a funding gap has resulted.
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Streeter, Sandy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative R&D: Federal Efforts to Promote Industrial Competitiveness
In response to the foreign challenge in the global marketplace, the United States Congress has explored ways to stimulate technological advancement in the private sector. The government has supported various efforts to promote cooperative research and development activities among industry, universities, and the federal R&D establishment designed to increase the competitiveness of American industry and to encourage the generation of new products, processes, and services. Among the issues before Congress are whether joint ventures contribute to industrial competitiveness and what role, if any, the government has in facilitating such arrangements.
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Schacht, Wendy H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA)
The Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) program provides monetary assistance to individuals unemployed as a direct result of a major disaster and who are not eligible for regular Unemployment Compensation (UC) benefits. DUA is funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). DUA is administered by the Department of Labor (DOL) through each state’s UC agency. In the 109th Congress, P.L. 109-176 was signed into law on March 6, 2006, extending the duration of DUA benefits from 26 to 39 weeks for victims of the Hurricane Katrina and Rita disasters.
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Whittaker, Julie M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC): An Overview
The Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) is an agreement among member states to provide assistance after disasters overwhelm a state’s capacity to manage the consequences. The compact, initiated by the states and coordinated by the National Emergency Management Association, provides a structure for requesting emergency assistance from party states. EMAC also resolves some, but not all, potential legal and administrative obstacles that may hinder such assistance. EMAC also enhances state preparedness for terrorist attacks by ensuring the availability of resources for fast response and facilitating multi-state cooperation in training activities and preparedness exercises. Congress approved EMAC as an interstate compact in 1996 (P.L. 104-321).
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Bea, Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Energy Tax Policy
This report discusses about energy tax policy. U.S energy tax policy promoted the supply of oil and gas but witnessed significant cutback, imposition of new excise taxes on oil and introduction of numerous tax preferences for energy conservation.
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Lazzari, Salvatore
System:
The UNT Digital Library
France: Factors Shaping Foreign Policy, and Issues in U.S.-French Relations
This report examines the key factors that shape French foreign policy. From that context, it analyzes some of the reasons for the tensions in and the accomplishments of U.S.-French relations.
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Gallis, Paul E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Global Warming: The Litigation Heats Up
This report focuses on the legal debate related to global warming, and past and possible litigation. The court cases, decided and pending, address four principal issues, whether the EPA has the authority under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, from either stationary or mobile sources; whether state regulation of GHG emissions from motor vehicles (limited to California at the moment) preempted by federal law; can the common law of nuisance be used to force cutbacks in GHG emissions; and do the alleged global warming impacts of federal agency actions allow a National Environmental Policy Act challenge?
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Meltz, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy
There is an on-going interest in the pace of U.S. technological advancement due to its influence on U.S. economic growth, productivity, and international competitiveness. Because technology can contribute to economic growth and productivity increases, congressional interest has focused on how to augment private-sector technological development. Legislative activity over the past decade has created a policy for technology development, albeit an ad hoc one. Because of the lack of consensus on the scope and direction of a national policy, Congress has taken an incremental approach aimed at creating new mechanisms to facilitate technological advancement in particular areas and making changes and improvements as necessary
Date:
January 10, 2005
Creator:
Schacht, Wendy H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library