National Debt of the United States: Historical Survey and Analysis (open access)

National Debt of the United States: Historical Survey and Analysis

This report is a Historical Survey and Analysis of National Debt of the United States.
Date: March 26, 1969
Creator: Brite, George K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers (open access)

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers

This report discusses the trade adjustment assistance (TAA) program for firms (TAAF). The TAAF program provides technical assistance to trade-affected firms to help them develop strategies and make other adjustments to remain competitive in the changing international economy.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Crude Oil Export Policy: Background and Considerations (open access)

U.S. Crude Oil Export Policy: Background and Considerations

This report provides background and context about the crude oil legal and regulatory framework, discusses motivations that underlie the desire to export U.S. crude oil, and presents analysis of issues that Congress may choose to consider during debate about U.S. crude oil export policy.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Brown, Phillip; Pirog, Robert; Vann, Adam; Fergusson, Ian F.; Ratner, Michael & Ramseur, Jonathan L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Worker Participation in Employer-Sponsored Pensions: A Fact Sheet (open access)

Worker Participation in Employer-Sponsored Pensions: A Fact Sheet

The main part of this report is a fact sheet that provides data on the percentage of American workers who have access to and who participate in employer-sponsored pension plans. The data was collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) through the National Compensation Survey (NCS).
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Topoleski, John J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forest Service Payments to Counties— Title I of the Federal Forests County Revenue, Schools, and Jobs Act of 2012: Issues for Congress (open access)

Forest Service Payments to Counties— Title I of the Federal Forests County Revenue, Schools, and Jobs Act of 2012: Issues for Congress

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Date: March 26, 2012
Creator: Gorte, Ross W.; Alexander, Kristina & Corn, M. Lynne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disease Funding and NIH Priority Setting (open access)

Disease Funding and NIH Priority Setting

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Date: March 26, 1998
Creator: Johnson, Judith A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Zimbabwe: Election Chronology (open access)

Zimbabwe: Election Chronology

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Date: March 26, 2002
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing Technology for Humanitarian Landmine Clearing Operations (open access)

Developing Technology for Humanitarian Landmine Clearing Operations

This report describes new technologies being developed to help detect and clear anti-personel landmines, the programs that are developing them, and discusses related issues for congressional consideration.
Date: March 26, 1997
Creator: Moteff, John D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress

This report discusses The Coast Guard's Program of Record (POR) calls for procuring 8 national security cutters (NSCs), 25 offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs), and 58 Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) as replacements for 90 aging Coast Guard cutters and Patrol Craft.
Date: March 26, 2015
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nonproliferation and Threat Reduction Assistance: U.S. Programs in the Former Soviet Union (open access)

Nonproliferation and Threat Reduction Assistance: U.S. Programs in the Former Soviet Union

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Date: March 26, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: The Windfall Benefit Provision (open access)

Social Security: The Windfall Benefit Provision

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Date: March 26, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Official Mail Costs (open access)

Congressional Official Mail Costs

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Date: March 26, 2008
Creator: Glassman, Matthew E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Privacy: An Abbreviated Outline of Federal Statutes Governing Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping (open access)

Privacy: An Abbreviated Outline of Federal Statutes Governing Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping

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Date: March 26, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Membership and Appointment Authority to Advisory Commissions, Boards, and Groups (open access)

Congressional Membership and Appointment Authority to Advisory Commissions, Boards, and Groups

Over the past several decades, Congress, by statute, has established a wide array of commissions, boards, and advisory bodies to provide it with assistance in meeting various legislative, investigative, and administrative responsibilities. This report contains a compilation of commissions and boards that demonstrates the range of alternative membership appointment structures.
Date: March 26, 2008
Creator: Glassman, Matthew E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Energy Policy (open access)

Nuclear Energy Policy

This report discusses the nuclear energy policy issues facing Congress that include the implementation of federal incentives for new commercial reactors, radioactive waste management policy, research and development priorities, power plant safety and regulation, nuclear weapons proliferation, and security against terrorist attacks.
Date: March 26, 2007
Creator: Holt, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Davis-Bacon Act Coverage and the State Revolving Fund Program Under the Clean Water Act (open access)

Davis-Bacon Act Coverage and the State Revolving Fund Program Under the Clean Water Act

This report discusses the Davis-Bacon Act (DBA), which established a prevailing wage requirement for persons working under government contracts, and the Clean Water Act (CWA), which includes a related requirement for the construction of wastewater treatment plants. In particular, it considers the impact on state revolving loan funds (SRF), in which states contribute part of the needed funds for projects and would need to account for the prevailing wage requirement.
Date: March 26, 2008
Creator: Whittaker, William G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trends in Public Transportation Ridership: Implications for Federal Policy (open access)

Trends in Public Transportation Ridership: Implications for Federal Policy

This report discusses the implications of recent trends in public transit ridership in the U.S. for future federal policy.
Date: March 26, 2018
Creator: Mallett, William J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Credit: Institutions and Issues (open access)

Agricultural Credit: Institutions and Issues

This report discusses federal credit assistance for farmers and recent issues in Congress related to the programs.
Date: March 26, 2018
Creator: Monke, Jim
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) and House Legislation: Common Issue Areas (open access)

Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) and House Legislation: Common Issue Areas

This report discusses the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) and compares its provisions with sections of bills passed in the House that proposed similar or identical changes to the law.
Date: March 26, 2018
Creator: Perkins, David W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safe Harbor for Online Service Providers Under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (open access)

Safe Harbor for Online Service Providers Under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

This report focuses primarily on "storage of information on systems or networks at direction of users," which includes any website that stores digital content that users have uploaded for public consumption or for sharing purposes (such as the popular social media and online services YouTube, Facebook, Dropbox, Flickr, Google Drive, and Blogger).
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Net Neutrality: The FCC's Authority to Regulate Broadband Internet Traffic Management (open access)

Net Neutrality: The FCC's Authority to Regulate Broadband Internet Traffic Management

This report discusses the major debate over the government's role in the Internet. Legally, the question appears to be whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) currently has the authority to regulate the ways in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) manage Internet traffic over their networks.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Ruane, Kathleen Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Condition of Depository Banks (open access)

Financial Condition of Depository Banks

This report discusses the congressional interest in the financial conditions of depository banks or the commercial banking industry that has increased in the wake of the financial crisis that unfolded in 2007-2009, which resulted in a large increase in the number of distressed institutions.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Getter, Darryl E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and potential oversight issues for Congress on the Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class aircraft carrier program. Congress's decisions on the CVN-78 program could substantially affect Navy capabilities and funding requirements and the shipbuilding industrial base.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
System: The UNT Digital Library
S. 1961 and H.R. 4024: Legislative Responses to a Chemical Storage Facility Spill (open access)

S. 1961 and H.R. 4024: Legislative Responses to a Chemical Storage Facility Spill

This report describes and analyzes the Chemical Safety and Preparedness Act and H.R. 4024, the Ensuring Access to Clean Water Act of 2014.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Copeland, Claudia & Tiemann, Mary
System: The UNT Digital Library