Legislative Proposals: Selected Considerations for Their Development (open access)

Legislative Proposals: Selected Considerations for Their Development

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Date: August 6, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Background on NEPA Implementation for Highway Projects: Streamlining the Process (open access)

Background on NEPA Implementation for Highway Projects: Streamlining the Process

This report is on Background on NEPA Implementation for Highway Projects: Streamlining the Process.
Date: August 6, 2003
Creator: Luther, Linda G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform (open access)

Social Security Reform

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Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance (open access)

War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance

This report gives a summary of the usage of the War Powers Resolution (WPR) and various issues related to proposals to modify or repeal the resolution. The report summarizes most recent developments and background, and gives an overview of United Nations actions, and WPR activities in former Yugoslavia/Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq (post-1991), Haiti, and Somalia. It also includes commentary on the instances formally reported under the WPR, consultation with Congress, and the current issues which Congress is considering.
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
South Korean Politics and Rising “Anti-Americanism”: Implications for U.S. Policy Toward North Korea (open access)

South Korean Politics and Rising “Anti-Americanism”: Implications for U.S. Policy Toward North Korea

This report outlines the shifts in the South Korean polity since the election of 2002 which exposed the generational divide in South Korea with younger people more apt to criticize the United States, particularly on matters pertaining to North Korea and US military presence on the Korean Peninsula. The report also discusses these developments, particularly the rise in anti-Americanism and how it impacts American policy towards North Korea.
Date: May 6, 2003
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare+Choice (open access)

Medicare+Choice

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Date: June 6, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2004: Military Construction (open access)

Appropriations for FY2004: Military Construction

This report is a guide to the military construction (MilCon) appropriations bill.
Date: November 6, 2003
Creator: Else, Daniel H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches (open access)

Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches

This report discusses various U.S. international narcotics policy approaches meant to achieve two main goals: to reduce the supply of illicit narcotics flowing into the United States, and to reduce the amount of illicit narcotics cultivated, processed, and consumed worldwide.
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: Perl, Raphael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Activities: Authorization and Appropriations (open access)

Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Activities: Authorization and Appropriations

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Date: November 6, 2003
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salaries of Members of Congress: Current Procedures and Recent Adjustments (open access)

Salaries of Members of Congress: Current Procedures and Recent Adjustments

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Date: February 6, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Employees’ Retirement System: Benefits and Financing (open access)

Federal Employees’ Retirement System: Benefits and Financing

This report provides information about the Benefits and Financing on Federal Employees’ Retirement System. Most civilian federal employees who were hired before 1984 are covered by the civil service retirement system.
Date: June 6, 2003
Creator: Purcell, Patrick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Map Sources (open access)

Iraq: Map Sources

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Date: October 6, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge: Russian Concerns and U.S. Interests (open access)

Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge: Russian Concerns and U.S. Interests

This report delves into the complex and tumultuous relationship between Georgia and Russia. It provides background of the two countries interactions, analysis of recent developments, speculation regarding U.S. interest in the perceived conflict.
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: Nichol, Jim
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: Background and Current Issues (open access)

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: Background and Current Issues

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Date: November 6, 2003
Creator: Copson, Raymond W. & Salaam, Tiaji
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: Energy, Environment, and Development Issues (open access)

Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: Energy, Environment, and Development Issues

This report addresses Energy, Environment, and Development Issues of Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles.
Date: June 6, 2003
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fair Housing Act: A Legal Overview (open access)

The Fair Housing Act: A Legal Overview

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Date: May 6, 2003
Creator: Feder, Jody
System: The UNT Digital Library
The WTO Cancún Ministerial (open access)

The WTO Cancún Ministerial

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Date: November 6, 2003
Creator: Fergusson, Ian F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
China: Possible Missile Technology Transfers Under U.S. Satellite Export Policy — Actions and Chronology (open access)

China: Possible Missile Technology Transfers Under U.S. Satellite Export Policy — Actions and Chronology

This report discusses Congressional Concerns and Issues for Policy, Security Concerns, Administration and Congressional Action and Chronological of Major Events Since 1988.
Date: October 6, 2003
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment (open access)

Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment

This report provides information about A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment on Flag Protection.This report is divided into two reports.The first report gives a brief history of the flag protection issue and the other summarizes the two decisions of the United States supreme court.
Date: May 6, 2003
Creator: Luckey, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Potential Post-War Foreign Aid Issues (open access)

Iraq: Potential Post-War Foreign Aid Issues

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Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program: An Overview (open access)

The Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program: An Overview

This report provides an overview of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, administered by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which provides financial assistance to eligible police departments to help improve community policing efforts. It includes a brief discussion of the establishment of the program, guidelines and requirements for grantees, and a summary of various Department of Justice initiatives under the COPS program.
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: Teasley, David & O'Bryant, JoAnne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Notch Issue: A Summary (open access)

Social Security Notch Issue: A Summary

This report discusses recent attempts at legislative action regarding changes to the computation of benefits under Social Security Amendments of 1977 (P.L. 95-216), which directly affected retirees born in the 5- to 15-year period after 1916. These persons fall in the "notch" between previous Social Security legislation and those affected by the amendments.
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: Kollmann, Geoffrey
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment (open access)

Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment

This report provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment.
Date: May 6, 2003
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage for Beneficiaries: Background and Issues (open access)

Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage for Beneficiaries: Background and Issues

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Date: January 6, 2003
Creator: O'Sullivan, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library