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Association Health Plans, Health Marts and the Small Group Market for Health Insurance (open access)

Association Health Plans, Health Marts and the Small Group Market for Health Insurance

An estimated 41.2 million people were without health insurance in 2001. Legislation under consideration by the 108th and earlier Congresses is intended to assist small employers in offering health insurance as a benefit to their workers. A new bill, H.R. 4281, introduced on May 5, 2004, The Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 6601s. 545), and a number of bills from the earlier Congresses include provisions creating new groups for small firms to join or encouraging the growth of existing groups so that small employers can band together to offer coverage to their employees.
Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Hearne, Jean P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Obscenity and Indecency: Constitutional Principles and Federal Statutes (open access)

Obscenity and Indecency: Constitutional Principles and Federal Statutes

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Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: International Policy and Options (open access)

Drug Control: International Policy and Options

Over the past decade, worldwide production of illicit drugs has risen dramatically: opium and marijuana production has roughly doubled and coca production tripled. Street prices of cocaine and heroin have fallen significantly in the past 20 years, reflecting increased availability. Despite apparent national political resolve to deal with the drug problem, inherent contradictions regularly appear between U.S. anti-drug policy and other national policy goals and concerns. The mix of competing domestic and international pressures and priorities has produced an ongoing series of disputes within and between the legislative and executive branches concerning U.S. international drug policy. One contentious issue has been the Congressionally-mandated certification process, an instrument designed to induce specified drug-exporting countries to prioritize or pay more attention to the fight against narcotics businesses.
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Lee, Rensselaer & Perl, Raphael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality: Implementing the Clean Water Act (open access)

Water Quality: Implementing the Clean Water Act

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Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Research: DOD's Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Program (open access)

Defense Research: DOD's Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Program

Congress supports the research and development efforts of the Department of Defense (DOD) with a Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation. The appropriation primarily supports the development of the nation’s future military hardware and software and the technology base upon which those products rely. It is the federal government’s single largest research and development account. Besides supporting the nation’s military needs, some of the technology developed with RDT&E funds spills over into the commercial sector. For these reasons, RDT&E funding draws a considerable amount of attention within Congress each year.
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Moteff, John D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electricity: The Road Toward Restructuring (open access)

Electricity: The Road Toward Restructuring

The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) and the Federal Power Act (FPA) were enacted to eliminate unfair practices and other abuses by electricity and gas holding companies by requiring federal control and regulation of interstate public utility holding companies. Comprehensive energy legislation has passed the House and Senate. The House passed H.R. 6 on April 11, 2003. On July 31, 2003, the Senate suspended debate on S. 14, inserted the text of H.R. 4 (107th Congress) as a substitute, and passed H.R. 6. A conference agreement was reached November 17, 2003, and passed by the House the next day. H.R. 6 includes an electricity title that would, in part, repeal PUHCA, would prospectively repeal the mandatory purchase requirement under PURPA, and would create an electric reliability organization. On June 15, 2004, H.R. 4503, a comprehensive energy policy bill, passed the House.
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Abel, Amy & Parker, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Environmental Protection (open access)

The Role of Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Environmental Protection

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Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Schierow, Linda-Jo
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Assistance (open access)

The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Assistance

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Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Tarnoff, Curt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan-U.S. Relations (open access)

Pakistan-U.S. Relations

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Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congo (formerly Zaire) (open access)

Congo (formerly Zaire)

This report discusses the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, which is a vast-resource-rich country of 48 million people. Events there affect much of sub-Saharan Africa. In August 1998, Congo was plunged into its second civil war in 2 years. A peace accord was concluded in Lusaka, Zambia, in July and August 1999, and the U.N. Security Council later agreed to send a 5,500-member observer force, MONUC, to assist in the peace process. Fewer than 250 observers have gone to Congo, due to the failure of the parties to the Lusaka accord to fully implement its terms. The assassination of President Laurent Kabila on January 16, 2001, has raised new doubts about the prospects for peace in Congo.
Date: June 5, 2001
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Employees' Retirement Benefits: Bills in the 108th Congress (open access)

Federal Employees' Retirement Benefits: Bills in the 108th Congress

This report describes the bills introduced in the 108th Congress that would affect participants in either CSRS or FERS. It begins by summarizing laws enacted during the 107th Congress that affected CSRS or FERS.
Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Purcell, Patrick J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Superfund and Brownfields in the 107th Congress (open access)

Superfund and Brownfields in the 107th Congress

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Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Reisch, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gender Wage Gap and Pay Equity: Is Comparable Worth the Next Step? (open access)

The Gender Wage Gap and Pay Equity: Is Comparable Worth the Next Step?

This report mainly focuses on The Gender Wage Gap and Pay Equity. Women's participation in the labor market has undergone considerable change in the last few decades. The majority of today's married women have forsaken the traditional role of full time child care givers for the dual role of unpaid homemakers.
Date: June 5, 2001
Creator: Levine, Linda
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 108th Congress

This report provides the information related to the fishery, aquaculture, and marine mammal issues in the 108th Congress
Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Information: Legal Issues Relating to Discrimination and Privacy (open access)

Genetic Information: Legal Issues Relating to Discrimination and Privacy

This report provides Genetic Information and Legal Issues Relating to Discrimination and Privacy. It also discusses current federal law,sate statutes and current legislation.
Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee & Smith, Alison M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal (open access)

Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA) calls for disposal of spent nuclear fuel in a deep geologic repository that is unlikely to be disturbed for thousands of years. Low-level waste sites are a state responsibility under the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1980. Pursuant to that act, 10 regional compacts for disposal of low level waste have been approved by Congress. Three commercial low-level waste sites are currently operating, in the states of South Carolina, Utah, and Washington.
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Holt, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration and the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (open access)

South Florida Ecosystem Restoration and the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan

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Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Carter, Nicole T. & Sheikh, Pervaze A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taiwan: Annual Arms Sales Process (open access)

Taiwan: Annual Arms Sales Process

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Date: June 5, 2001
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forms that Incorporate Abroad for Tax Purposes:  Corporate "Inversions" and "Expatriation" (open access)

Forms that Incorporate Abroad for Tax Purposes: Corporate "Inversions" and "Expatriation"

This report presents Corporate "Inversions" and "Expatriation" related to Forms that incorporate abroad for Tax purposes.
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Brumbaugh, David L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evolution of the Senate's Role in the Nomination and Confirmation Process: A Brief History (open access)

Evolution of the Senate's Role in the Nomination and Confirmation Process: A Brief History

Over time, the Senate has developed a series of procedures to deal with the concerns of its Members on nominations. First is the custom of senatorial courtesy, whereby Senators from the same party as the President might influence a nomination or kill it by objecting to it. This tradition has not always been absolute, but it has allowed Senators to play a fairly large role, particularly in the selection of nominees within a Senator’s home state, such as for district court judgeships.
Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Palmer, Betsy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Criminal Court: Overview and Selected Legal Issues (open access)

International Criminal Court: Overview and Selected Legal Issues

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Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Argentine Financial Crisis: A Chronology of Events (open access)

The Argentine Financial Crisis: A Chronology of Events

Argentina’s current crisis resulted from a confluence of events, some external to Argentina’s policy process, others directly related to its political and economic choices. The following is a summary of these events from before Argentina’s adoption of the currency board in 1991 to developments in early 2002.
Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Hornbeck, J. F. & Marshall, Meaghan K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Financial Crisis in Argentina (open access)

The Financial Crisis in Argentina

This report discusses the social and political situation in Argentina, more specifically political and financial crisis that ended the presidency of Fernando de la Rua on December 20, 2001. This report concludes with the May 25, 2003 inauguration of President Kirchner.
Date: June 5, 2003
Creator: Hornbeck, J. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Men standing in front of table]

Peruvians in the Metroplex came to the polls to decide the future of the country, as did Lorena Baldwin (pictured), a resident of the city of Plano (Texas).
Date: June 5, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library