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Air Quality and Electricity: Initiatives to Increase Pollution Controls (open access)

Air Quality and Electricity: Initiatives to Increase Pollution Controls

This report discusses air quality initiatives (such as the Ozone Transport Rule) that primarily focus on reducing and enforcing emissions from coal-fired electric generating utilities in the Midwest and South. The report also addresses various legislative activity that focuses on multi-pollutant strategies as an alternative to these piecemeal initiatives.
Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Parker, Larry & Blodgett, John E.
Object Type: Report
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 discusses the funding authorizations for programs in the Higher Education Act (HEA). This legislation, administered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED), authorizes the federal government’s major student aid programs, as well as other significant initiatives.
Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Stedman, James B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
First Responder Initiative: Policy Issues and Options (open access)

First Responder Initiative: Policy Issues and Options

This report discusses a new block grant program proposed by the Bush Administration called the “First Responder Initiative” to help state and local first responders prepare for possible terrorist attacks
Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Canada, Ben
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sequestration Process (open access)

The Sequestration Process

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Date: March 19, 2001
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discretionary Spending Limits (open access)

Discretionary Spending Limits

Discretionary spending limits are statutory caps on the level of budget authority and outlays determined through the annual appropriations process. They were initially established by the Budget Enforcement Act (BEA) of 1990 (Title XIII of P.L. 101-508) as part of an agreement between Congress and President George Bush to reduce the deficit. Twice since, they were extended to enforce agreements between Congress and President Bill Clinton, most recently to achieve a surplus.
Date: March 19, 2001
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy, March 19, 2003 (open access)

Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy, March 19, 2003

This report discusses congressional interest in the pace of U.S. technological advancement due to its influence on U.S. economic growth, productivity, and international competitiveness. The proper role of the federal government in technology development and the competitiveness of U.S. industry continues to be a topic of congressional debate.
Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Special Order Speeches and Other Forms of Non-Legislative Debate in the House (open access)

Special Order Speeches and Other Forms of Non-Legislative Debate in the House

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Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Carr, Thomas P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Products Liability: A Legal Overview (open access)

Products Liability: A Legal Overview

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Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation (open access)

Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation

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Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Laney, Garrine P. & Siskin, Alison
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Pay and Benefits: Key Questions and Answers (open access)

Military Pay and Benefits: Key Questions and Answers

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Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Goldich, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Palestinians and Middle East Peace: Issues for the United States (open access)

Palestinians and Middle East Peace: Issues for the United States

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Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Cooperation on Ballistic Missile Defense: Issues and Prospects (open access)

Japan-U.S. Cooperation on Ballistic Missile Defense: Issues and Prospects

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Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty: Overview of Recent Events (open access)

National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty: Overview of Recent Events

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Date: March 19, 1999
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tax Treatment of Alternative Transportation Fuels (open access)

The Tax Treatment of Alternative Transportation Fuels

Historically, federal energy policy, including energy tax policy, promoted the development of oil and gas at the expense of alternative fuels and nonconventional forms of energy. Beginning in the 1970s, there was a shift in the focus of energy tax policy away from oil and gas toward energy conservation and toward the development of alternative fuels and nonconventional forms of energy.
Date: March 19, 1997
Creator: Lazzari, Salvatore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Enron Collapse: An Overview of Financial Issues (open access)

The Enron Collapse: An Overview of Financial Issues

This report briefly examines the accounting system that failed to provide a clear picture of the firm’s true condition, the independent auditors and board members who were unwilling to challenge Enron’s management, the Wall Street stock analysts and bond raters who missed the trouble ahead, the rules governing employer stock in company pension plans, and the unregulated energy derivatives trading that was the core of Enron’s business. The report also describes related legislation that has received floor or committee action and will be updated regularly.
Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Jickling, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests (open access)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests

The United States recognized the independence of all the former Soviet republics by the end of 1991, including the South Caucasus states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The United States has fostered these states' ties with the West in part to end the dependence of these states on Russia for trade, security, and other relations. The FREEDOM Support Act of 1992 provides authorization for assistance to the Eurasian states for humanitarian needs, democratization, and other purposes. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the Administration appealed for a national security waiver of the prohibition on aid to Azerbaijan, in consideration of Azerbaijan's assistance to the international coalition to combat terrorism. Azerbaijani and Georgian troops participate in stabilization efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Armenian personnel serve in Iraq.
Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Nichol, Jim & Kim, Julie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Israeli-United States Relations (open access)

Israeli-United States Relations

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Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Egypt-United States Relations (open access)

Egypt-United States Relations

This report provides an overview of Egyptian politics and current issues in U.S.-Egyptian relations. It briefly provides a political history of modern Egypt, an overview of its political institutions, and a discussion of the prospects for democratization in Egypt, U.S.-Egyptian relations are complex and multi-faceted, and this report addresses the following current topics: the Arab-Israeli peace process, Iraq, terrorism, democratization and reform, human rights, trade, and military cooperation.
Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Vietnam-U.S. Normalization Process (open access)

The Vietnam-U.S. Normalization Process

U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic and economic relations remained essentially frozen for more than a decade after the 1975 communist victory in South Vietnam. Washington and Hanoi have incrementally normalized relations over the past decade. The pace has been relatively slow due to continued debate in the United States and Vietnam over improved relations. Congress has played a significant role in the normalization process.
Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and U.S. Policy

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Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Dagne, Theodore S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Map Sources (open access)

Iraq: Map Sources

This report identifies selected Web sites for maps of Iraq. Selected government, library, and organizational Web site addresses are provided. Maps of the Middle East, Iraq, the No-Fly Zone, and Facilities Used by U.S. Forces in the Gulf are also provided.
Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Nelson, Marilyn L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration: A Guide to Internet Sources (open access)

Immigration: A Guide to Internet Sources

This report provides a guide to Internet Sources the Immigration. This report identifies selected WWW sites from the internet about immigration topics in the United States.
Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Salazar, Barbara A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Law of the Sea Convention and U.S. Policy (open access)

The Law of the Sea Convention and U.S. Policy

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Date: March 19, 2003
Creator: Browne, Marjorie Ann
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cyprus: Status of U.N. Negotiations (open access)

Cyprus: Status of U.N. Negotiations

Cyprus has been divided since 1974. Greek Cypriots, nearly 80% of the population, live in the southern two thirds of the island. Turkish Cypriots live in the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” (recognized only by Turkey), with about 30,000 Turkish troops providing security. U.N. peacekeeping forces maintain a buffer zone between the two. Members of Congress have urged the Administration to be more active, although they have not proposed an alternative to the U.N.-sponsored talks.
Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library