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Debt Reduction: Initiatives for the Most Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
This report offers a broad overview of the debate concerning debt reduction for poor developing countries. It profiles the scope and structure of debt and reviews previous debt relief strategies and the current HIPC Initiative. It analyzes and compares competing alternatives endorsed by the Administration, congressional activists, NGOs, and other G-7 governments. Several key issues, such as costs, impact, and conditionality, of pending proposals are also assessed.
Date:
February 1, 2000
Creator:
Nowels, Larry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ecuador’s Brady Bond Default: Background and Implications
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Date:
February 1, 2000
Creator:
Hornbeck, J. F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Grazing Regulations: Public Lands Council v. Babbitt
This report discusses new regulations on livestock grazing on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management became effective August 21, 1995. Many aspects of the new regulations were challenged in Public Lands Council v. Babbitt. A federal district court upheld many of the regulations, but struck down four of them and enjoined their implementation. At the appellate level, only the new regulation allowing conservation use to the exclusion of livestock grazing for the full term of a permit was held invalid. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case and argument has been set for March 1, 2000.
Date:
February 1, 2000
Creator:
Baldwin, Pamela
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Going to Conference in the Senate
This report discusses the steps that the Senate must take, and one more step that it may take, as it arranges to send a bill to conference committee.
Date:
February 1, 2000
Creator:
Bach, Stanley
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms: Economic, Program, and Policy Issues
While many policymakers believe that free trade provides benefits to all trading partners, reducing barriers to trade forces firms and industries to adjust to stiffer global competition. For some, the adjustment process can be difficult and Congress, in recognizing this problem, has authorized programs to assist trade-impacted firms, industries, and workers.
Date:
February 1, 2000
Creator:
Hornbeck, J. F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Beneficiary Access to Care: The Effects of New Prospective Payment Systems on Outpatient Hospital Care, Home Health Care, and Skilled Nursing Facility Care
This report discusses the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA 97), which required that prospective payment systems replace retrospective cost-based reimbursement systems for Medicare beneficiaries receiving care in hospital outpatient departments, from home health care agencies, and in skilled nursing facilities.
Date:
February 2, 2000
Creator:
Merck, Carolyn L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NAFTA: Estimated U.S. Job “Gains” and “Losses” by State Over 5½ Years
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Date:
February 2, 2000
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Senate Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments
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Date:
February 2, 2000
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Senate Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments
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Date:
February 2, 2000
Creator:
Schneider, Judy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
EPA's Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program: Highlights of Proposed Changes and Impacts on Agriculture
In August 1999 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed regulations to clarify and strengthen the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program under section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. Section 303(d) requires states to identify surface waters for which wastewater discharge limits are not stringent enough to achieve water quality standards and to allocate further required pollutant reductions among sources in order to attain those standards. This report discusses the major changes in EPA's proposals, compared with existing regulatory program requirements, and potential impacts on agriculture and forestry sources, which have been controversial.
Date:
February 3, 2000
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change: The Role for Energy Efficiency
This report reviews the role of energy efficiency in federal policies to curb CO2 emissions. In particular, it discusses targets for CO2 reductions, projected energy efficiency impacts, strategies for measuring impacts, and legislative proposals that would affect support for energy efficiency programs.
Date:
February 3, 2000
Creator:
Sissine, Fred
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2000: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies
Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the Subcommittees on Transportation of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
Date:
February 4, 2000
Creator:
Thompson, Duane A. & Kirk, Robert S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Finance: Constitutional and Legal Issues of Soft Money
Soft money is a major issue in the campaign finance reform debate because these generally unregulated funds are perceived as resulting from a loophole in the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). Generally, soft money is funds that are raised and spent according to applicable state laws, which FECA prohibits from being spent directly on federal elections, but that may have an indirect influence on federal elections. This Issue Brief discusses three major types of soft money: political party soft money, corporate and labor union soft money, and soft money used for issue advocacy communications.
Date:
February 4, 2000
Creator:
Whitaker, L. Paige
System:
The UNT Digital Library
State Department and Related Agencies FY2000 Appropriations
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Date:
February 4, 2000
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NATO Applicant States: A Status Report
On March 12, 1999, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary formally became members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; nine additional central and eastern European nations have applied to join the alliance: Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. There arc several general guidelines for evaluating nations seeking NATO membership; however, these guidelines are not a checklist that, when completed, would automatically guarantee membership. NATO members decide on the basis of consensus whether the admission of a state will serve the interests of the Alliance and promote European security and stability. This report, which was compiled from memoranda prepared in January 1999 at the request of Senator William Roth, contains brief assessments of the NATO applicants' qualifications, compared to those of the three new members, The report was updated in February 2000. The report will be updated as necessary.
Date:
February 7, 2000
Creator:
Woehrel, Steven; Kim, Julie & Ek, Carl
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Madrid Protocol Implementation Act: Overview of H.R. 769
None
Date:
February 8, 2000
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trade Legislation in the 106th Congress: An Overview
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Date:
February 8, 2000
Creator:
Ahearn, Raymond J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Export Controls: Analysis of Economic Costs
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Date:
February 10, 2000
Creator:
Elwell, Craig K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Organization and Process: A Brief Overview
This report provides a brief overview o the six features of the committee system in the House: organization, hearings, markup, reporting, oversight, and publications.
Date:
February 10, 2000
Creator:
Schneider, Judy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Military Health Care: The Issue of “Promised” Benefits
In the debate over the Department of Defense policy on military health care benefits, many military personnel and retirees say that they were promised “free health care for life” when they entered the armed forces. What benefits are available and who is eligible to receive these benefits are matters determined by Congress. This report discusses the issue of “promises” of lifetime health care benefits made to military retirees.
Date:
February 10, 2000
Creator:
Burrelli, David F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Level of Taxes in the United States, 1941-1999
None
Date:
February 11, 2000
Creator:
Brumbaugh, David L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The National Institute of Standards and Technology: An Overview
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Date:
February 11, 2000
Creator:
Schacht, Wendy H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Administration's Lands Legacy Initiative in the FY2001 Budget Proposal - A Fact Sheet
The fact sheet compares the FY2001 funding request for the Administration's Lands Legacy Initiative to the FY2000 request and the enacted FY2000 appropriation.
Date:
February 14, 2000
Creator:
Zinn, Jeffrey A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Policies
This report discusses the Bicycle and Pedestrian Legislation, Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act Of 1991 (ISTEA), Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century,and Funding under ISTEA and TEA21.
Date:
February 14, 2000
Creator:
Lipford, William A. & Harrison, Glennon J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library