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European Union–U.S. Trade and Investment Relations: Key Issues
None
Date:
April 8, 2008
Creator:
Aheam, Raymond J.; Fischer, John W.; Goldfarb, Charles B.; Hanrahan, Charles E.; Eubanks, Walter W. & Rubin, Janice E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trade Primer: Qs and As on Trade Concepts, Performance, and Policy
This report is divided into four sections in a question-and-answer format: trade concepts, U.S. trade performance, formulation of U.S. trade policy, and trade and investment issues. The first section on "Trade Concepts" deals with why countries trade, the consequences of trade expansion, and the relationship between globalization and trade. The second section, on trade performance, focuses on the U.S. trade deficit and its impact on industries. The third section deals with the roles played by the Executive Branch, Congress, the private sector, and the Judiciary in the formulation of U.S. trade policy. The fourth section, on U.S. trade and investment policy, asks questions related to trade negotiations and agreements and to imports, exports, and investments.
Date:
December 8, 2010
Creator:
Ahearn, Raymond J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The 2010 Oil Spill: Natural Resource Damage Assessment Under the Oil Pollution Act
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill leaked an estimated 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, damaging the waters, shores, and marshes, and the fish and wildlife that live there. When resources in the public trust are harmed by contamination, federal, state, foreign, and tribal governments may seek compensation for damage to natural resources under certain laws. This is done in two steps: first, by assessing the harm; then, by determining how and what restoration will take place. Compensation for natural resource damage is intended to restore the natural resources to their condition before the damage and to compensate the public for the lost use of those resources. This report discusses legislation that provides a framework for assessing and mitigating the damage caused by such spills.
Date:
September 8, 2010
Creator:
Alexander, Kristina
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the House Floor
None
Date:
December 8, 2006
Creator:
Amer, Mildred
System:
The UNT Digital Library
House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: A Brief History of Its Evolution and Jurisdiction
This report provides a history of the creation and evolution of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
Date:
June 8, 2006
Creator:
Amer, Mildred
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Economics of Guaranteed Student Loans
None
Date:
August 8, 2008
Creator:
Austin, D. Andrew
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Has the U.S. Government Ever "Defaulted"?
This report discusses the concept of default in the context of the federal government's financial obligations and provides examples of past cases in which the federal government failed to make certain payments on time.
Date:
December 8, 2016
Creator:
Austin, D. Andrew
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Debt Limit: History and Recent Increases
This report discusses how the total debt of the federal government can increase, an historical overview of debt limits, and how the current economic slowdown has led to higher deficits and thereby a series of debt limit increases, as well as legislation related to these increases.
Date:
September 8, 2010
Creator:
Austin, D. Andrew & Levit, Mindy R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Rare Earth Elements in National Defense: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress
This report covers concerns that Congress has expresses over U.S. acquisition of rare earth elements, particularly those used in various components of defense weapon systems. Specific concerns are the acquisition of these elements, especially from foreign sources such as China; how dependence of foreign sources affects national security; and methods for decreasing the relationship between reliance on foreign sources and national security.
Date:
June 8, 2011
Creator:
Bailey Grasso, Valerie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
H.R. 5825 (109th Congress): "Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act"
This report discusses the National Security Agency’s “Terrorist Surveillance Program,” a program in which international communications of persons within the United States have been the subject of electronic surveillance without a warrant or a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order.
Date:
September 8, 2006
Creator:
Bazan, Elizabeth B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Impeachment: An Overview of Constitutional Provisions, Procedure, and Practice
On June 19, 2009, the House voted to impeach U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The impeachment process provides a mechanism for removal of the President, Vice President, and other federal civil officers found to have engaged in "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." This report explains the impeachment process, including its history and the process itself.
Date:
April 8, 2010
Creator:
Bazan, Elizabeth B. & Henning, Anna C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assistance After Hurricanes and Other Disasters: FY2004 and FY2005 Supplemental Appropriations
This report presents summary information on the requests and congressional action for supplemental disaster relief funding for FY2004.
Date:
October 8, 2004
Creator:
Bea, Keith & Chite, Ralph M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Laws: Summaries of Major Statutes Administered by the Environmental Protection Agency
This report summarizes several federal statutes providing legal authority for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) programs and activities. These include: the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Ocean Dumping Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA), the Emergency Planning Act, and the Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
Date:
October 8, 2010
Creator:
Bearden, David M.; Copeland, Claudia; Luther, Linda; McCarthy, James E.; Schierow, Linda-Jo & Tiemann, Mary
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Animal Welfare Act: Background and Selected Legislation
None
Date:
December 8, 2009
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Farm Bill Trade and Food Aid Provisions
This report discusses the trade provisions of omnibus farm legislation, passed in May 2002. The measure includes a trade title reauthorizing, through 2007, the major foreign food aid and agricultural export programs. It also contains other provisions affecting agricultural trade, including new country-of-origin labeling requirements for meat, seafood, and produce; and increased domestic farm subsidies with possible implications for U.S. trade relations.
Date:
May 8, 2002
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety on the Farm: Federal Programs and Selected Proposals
This report discusses bills introduced into the 110th Congress pertaining to food safety that could affect farmers and ranchers. Several of these bills would expressly require enforceable on-farm safety standards.
Date:
August 8, 2008
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety: Oversight and Current Issues
None
Date:
November 8, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Horse Slaughter Prevention Bills and Issues
This report examines more than 90,000 U.S. horses which were slaughtered for human food in 2005, mainly for European and Asian consumers. Congress voted to limit the use of FY2006 appropriated funds for such slaughter, but the practice continues, funded by industry user fees. Debate continues on the acceptability of horse slaughter, and how to care for and/or humanely dispose of horses if they no longer went for human food. On September 7, 2006, the full House approved a bill (H.R. 503) to ban horse slaughter.
Date:
September 8, 2006
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Preferences and Delegate Selection Primaries: A Select Bibliography
This report provides a bibliography of resources related to presidential preferences and delegate selection primaries.
Date:
May 8, 1972
Creator:
Befbe, Ronald & Gorman, Joseph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: 112th Congress Issues and Legislative Proposals
This report discusses the energy policy in the United States, which has focused on three major goals: assuring a secure supply of energy, keeping energy costs low, and protecting the environment.
Date:
November 8, 2012
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gasoline Prices: Causes of Increases and Congressional Response
This report, after analyzing factors that have contributed to high gasoline prices, describes the major legislative initiatives and discusses the issues involved.
Date:
September 8, 2008
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E. & Glover, Carol
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Extending NASA’s Exemption from the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act
None
Date:
May 8, 2008
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E. & Niktin, Mary Beth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mexico's Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Rising Violence
This report provides background on drug trafficking in Mexico: it identifies the major drug trafficking organizations (DTOs); how the organized crime “landscape” has been altered by fragmentation; and analyzes the context, scope, and scale of the violence. It examines current trends of the violence, analyzes prospects for curbing violence in the future, and compares it with violence in Colombia.
Date:
June 8, 2012
Creator:
Beittel, June S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11
Congress has approved appropriations for the past 13 years of war that total $1.6 trillion for military operations, base support, weapons maintenance, training of Afghan and Iraq security forces, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans' health care for the war operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks. This report discusses the Department of Defense's FY2015 war request and various issues for Congress regarding the funding of the war on terror.
Date:
December 8, 2014
Creator:
Belasco, Amy
System:
The UNT Digital Library