Should Credit Unions Be Taxed? (open access)

Should Credit Unions Be Taxed?

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Date: May 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committees: A Framework for Considering Jurisdictional Realignment (open access)

House Committees: A Framework for Considering Jurisdictional Realignment

This report provides a framework for considering jurisdictional realignment on house committees.
Date: February 23, 2005
Creator: Koempel, Maichael L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public Safety Communications: Policy, Proposals, Legislation and Progress (open access)

Public Safety Communications: Policy, Proposals, Legislation and Progress

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Date: February 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Science, State, Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies (House)/ Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (Senate): FY2006 Appropriations (open access)

Science, State, Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies (House)/ Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (Senate): FY2006 Appropriations

This report monitors actions taken by the 109th Congress for the House’s Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies (SSJC) and the Senate’s Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) FY2006 appropriations legislation.
Date: December 23, 2005
Creator: Fergusson, Ian F. & Epstein, Susan B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heritage Areas: Background, Proposals, and Current Issues (open access)

Heritage Areas: Background, Proposals, and Current Issues

This report focuses on heritage areas designated by Congress, and related issues and legislation.
Date: November 23, 2005
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy & Whiteman, David
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Blind Trusts By Federal Officials (open access)

The Use of Blind Trusts By Federal Officials

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Date: September 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kyrgyzstan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests (open access)

Kyrgyzstan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests

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Date: March 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Everglades Restoration: Modified Water Deliveries Project (open access)

Everglades Restoration: Modified Water Deliveries Project

This report provides information about the Modified Water Deliveries Project on Everglades Restoration. The MOD wasters is a controversial ecological restoration process in South Florida designed to improve water delivery to Everglades national park.
Date: August 23, 2005
Creator: Sheikh, Pervaze A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Option of Freezing Non-defense Discretionary Spending to Reduce the Budget Deficit (open access)

The Option of Freezing Non-defense Discretionary Spending to Reduce the Budget Deficit

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Date: March 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Bankers Association v. Lockyer: Whether California’s Financial Information Privacy Law Has Been Preempted by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act (open access)

American Bankers Association v. Lockyer: Whether California’s Financial Information Privacy Law Has Been Preempted by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act

This report consists of american bankers association v. lockyer: Whether California’s Financial Information Privacy Law Has Been Preempted by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act.
Date: November 23, 2005
Creator: Murphy, M. Maureen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Investments: Legislation in the 109th Congress (open access)

Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Investments: Legislation in the 109th Congress

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Date: August 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Act of 2002: Tort Liability Provisions (open access)

Homeland Security Act of 2002: Tort Liability Provisions

This report examines the provisions in the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
Date: September 23, 2005
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Benefits for Health Insurance and Expenses: Current Legislation (open access)

Tax Benefits for Health Insurance and Expenses: Current Legislation

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Date: February 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Labor Union Recognition Procedures: Use of Secret Ballots and Card Checks (open access)

Labor Union Recognition Procedures: Use of Secret Ballots and Card Checks

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Date: May 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: A Chronology, FY1970-FY2006 (open access)

Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: A Chronology, FY1970-FY2006

The passage of the Department of Defense authorization and appropriations bills through Congress often does not follow the course laid out in textbooks on legislative procedure. This report is a research aid, which lists the DOD authorization bills ad appropriation bills. This includes all the pertinent information on the passage of these bills through the legislative process: bill numbers, report numbers, dates reported and passed, recorded vote numbers and vote tallies, dates of the passage of the conference reports with their numbers and votes, vetos, substitutions, dates of final passage, and public law numbers.
Date: May 23, 2005
Creator: Carter, Linwood B. & Coipuram, Thomas, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monopoly and Monopolization — Fundamental But Separate Concepts in U.S. Antitrust Law (open access)

Monopoly and Monopolization — Fundamental But Separate Concepts in U.S. Antitrust Law

This report will attempt to illustrate the difference between the concepts of "monopoly" and "monopolization" by touching on the monopoly/monopolization thinking in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as illustrated in (1) statements on merger enforcement made by recent antitrust enforcement officials, (2) the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and (3) some observations on the Government actions against the Microsoft and Intel Corporations.
Date: May 23, 2005
Creator: Rubin, Janice E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee Types and Roles (open access)

Committee Types and Roles

This report contains information on the general structure of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate committee structure, types of committees, and subcommittees.
Date: March 23, 2005
Creator: Carr, Thomas P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Spam”: An Overview of Issues Concerning Commercial Electronic Mail (open access)

“Spam”: An Overview of Issues Concerning Commercial Electronic Mail

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Date: March 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: A Chronology, FY1970-FY2006 (open access)

Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: A Chronology, FY1970-FY2006

The passage of the Department of Defense authorization and appropriations bills through Congress often does not follow the course laid out in textbooks on legislative procedure. This report is a research aid, which lists the DOD authorization bills ad appropriation bills. This includes all the pertinent information on the passage of these bills through the legislative process: bill numbers, report numbers, dates reported and passed, recorded vote numbers and vote tallies, dates of the passage of the conference reports with their numbers and votes, vetos, substitutions, dates of final passage, and public law numbers.
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: Carter, Linwood B. & Coipuram, Thomas, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Savings Accounts (open access)

Health Savings Accounts

This report provides summary of the principal rules governing HSAs and then compares HSAs to the other types of tax-advantaged accounts mentioned above.
Date: March 23, 2005
Creator: Lyke, Bob; Peterson, Chris & Ranade, Neela
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

In April 2003, the finished sequence of the human genome was deposited into public databases. This milestone, which has been compared to the discoveries of Galileo, and other advances in genetics have created novel legal issues relating to genetic information. This report discusses current federal law, state statutes, and legislation related to these issues.
Date: February 23, 2005
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee & Smith, Alison M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hill-Burton Uncompensated Services Program (open access)

The Hill-Burton Uncompensated Services Program

This report provides information on the Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946, commonly known as the Hill-Burton Act, which was enacted to provide federal financial assistance for the planning, construction, and improvement of health care facilities through grants, loans, and guaranteed loans under Title VI and later Title XVI of the Public Health Service Act. The report also covers the obligations and eligibility requirements for free care, and sources for further information
Date: May 23, 2005
Creator: Coleman, Sharon Kearney
System: The UNT Digital Library
Privatization and Welfare Administration (open access)

Privatization and Welfare Administration

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Date: March 23, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues (open access)

The Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues

This report includes information such as background, summary, and possible reauthorization issues of the Higher Education Act.
Date: March 23, 2005
Creator: Stoll, Adam
System: The UNT Digital Library