Aviation Congestion and Delay: System-Wide and New York-Area Issues (open access)

Aviation Congestion and Delay: System-Wide and New York-Area Issues

This report addresses System-Wide and New York-Area Issues of Aviation Congestion and Delay.
Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: Elias, Bart; Fischer, John W. & Tatelman, Todd B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Burma: Economic Sanctions (open access)

Burma: Economic Sanctions

This report provides background information on existing economic sanctions against Burma and possible options to expand sanctions.
Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: Niksch, Larry A. & Weiss, Martin A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
China’s Space Program: Options for U.S.-China Cooperation (open access)

China’s Space Program: Options for U.S.-China Cooperation

This report outlines recent activities and future plans in China's civilian space sector. It discusses benefits and trade-offs of possible U.S.-China collaboration in space, as well as several options to improve space relations, including information exchange, policy dialogue, and joint activities.
Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: Logan, Jeffrey
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cigarette Tax Increase to Finance SCHIP (open access)

The Cigarette Tax Increase to Finance SCHIP

This report mainly provides information about The rise in Cigarette Tax to Finance SCHIP. An original proposal would be mandated a 61 percent increase per pack.but, the resolution makes such a tax possible but not mandatory and does not set the level.
Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: A Brief Overview of Selected Issues (open access)

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: A Brief Overview of Selected Issues

This report briefly outlines three issues and touches upon some of the perspectives reflected in the ongoing debate. These issues include the inherent and often dynamic tension between national security and civil liberties, particularly rights of privacy and free speach.
Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: Bazan, Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations (open access)

Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations

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Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modernizing Insurance Regulation: Optional Federal Charter Legislation (open access)

Modernizing Insurance Regulation: Optional Federal Charter Legislation

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Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patent Reform: Issues in the Biomedical and Software Industries (open access)

Patent Reform: Issues in the Biomedical and Software Industries

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Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Side-by-Side Comparison of Climate Change Provisions in Omnibus Energy Legislation in the 110th Congress (open access)

Side-by-Side Comparison of Climate Change Provisions in Omnibus Energy Legislation in the 110th Congress

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Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2008 Appropriations (open access)

State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2008 Appropriations

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Date: December 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amtrak: Budget and Reauthorization (open access)

Amtrak: Budget and Reauthorization

This report is on Amtrak: Budget and Reauthorization.
Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: Frittelli, John & Peterman, David Randall
System: The UNT Digital Library
Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Drought: Federal Reservoir and Species Management (open access)

Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Drought: Federal Reservoir and Species Management

This report describes the Federal Reservoir and Species Management of Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Drought.
Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.; Corn, M. Lynne; Abel, Amy; Kaplan, Stan Mark; Buck, Eugene H.; Folger, Peter et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
District of Columbia Representation: Effect on House Apportionment (open access)

District of Columbia Representation: Effect on House Apportionment

This report shows the distribution of House seats based on the 2000 census for 435 seats and for 437 seats as specified in the proposal. The report also examines the impact of using the 2006 estimated population to allocate the 437 seats, including the single seat provided to the District.
Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: Crocker, Royce
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Programs Available to Unemployed Workers (open access)

Federal Programs Available to Unemployed Workers

This report presents information on federal programs targeted to unemployed workers specifically, but does not attempt to discuss means-tested programs.
Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: Whittaker, Julie M. & Naughton, Blake Alan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legal Issues in Terminations of Single-Employer Pension Plans: Beck v. PACE International Union (open access)

Legal Issues in Terminations of Single-Employer Pension Plans: Beck v. PACE International Union

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Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Officials: Process for Adjusting Pay and Current Salaries (open access)

Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Officials: Process for Adjusting Pay and Current Salaries

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Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Mexico-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mutual Fund 12b-1 Fees: Key Reform Proposals (open access)

Mutual Fund 12b-1 Fees: Key Reform Proposals

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Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues (open access)

Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues

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Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Payment Limits for Farm Commodity Programs: Issues and Proposals (open access)

Payment Limits for Farm Commodity Programs: Issues and Proposals

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Date: November 14, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy

This report provides current statistical information, profiles the Afghanistan narcotics trade's participants, explores linkages between narcotics, insecurity, and corruption, and reviews U.S. and international policy responses since late 2001. The report also considers ongoing policy debates regarding the counternarcotics role of coalition military forces, poppy eradication, alternative livelihoods, and funding issues for Congress.
Date: September 14, 2007
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Constitutionality of Awarding the Delegate for the District of Columbia a Vote in the House of Representatives or the Committee of the Whole (open access)
Consumer Bankruptcy and Household Debt (open access)

Consumer Bankruptcy and Household Debt

This report provides information about the Consumer Bankruptcy and Household Debt. The principal impetus behind bankruptcy reform is high number of consumer bankruptcy filings which in 2005 and 2006 reached five times more than in 1980's.
Date: September 14, 2007
Creator: Jickling, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library