FCC Media Ownership Rules: Current Status and Issues for Congress (open access)

FCC Media Ownership Rules: Current Status and Issues for Congress

This report analyzes each of the areas that has changed as a result of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) actions and Court decisions. The various positions in the debate also are summarized.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Goldfarb, Charles B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation (open access)

Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation

The Nation's health, wealth, and security rely on the production and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets, functions, and systems across which these goods and services move are called critical infrastructures. This report discusses in more detail the evolution of a national critical infrastructure policy and the institutional structures established to implement it. The report highlights five issues of Congressional concern: identifying critical assets; assessing vulnerabilities and risks; allocating resources; information sharing; and, regulation.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Moteff, John D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Care Spending and the Aging of the Population (open access)

Health Care Spending and the Aging of the Population

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Jenson, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library
School Finance Litigation (open access)

School Finance Litigation

This report provides an analysis of litigation regarding school financing, including an overview of the legal issues involved in such litigation and a description of the leading school finance cases at both the federal and state level.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Feder, Jody
System: The UNT Digital Library
Zimbabwe: Current Issues and U.S. Policy (open access)

Zimbabwe: Current Issues and U.S. Policy

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Ploch, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wetlands: An Overview of Issues (open access)

Wetlands: An Overview of Issues

The report documents recent changes in wetland acres. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its most recent periodic survey of changes in wetland acreage nationwide in March 2006. Covering 1998 to 2004, it concluded that during this time period there was a small net gain in overall wetland acres for the first time that this survey has been conducted. Others caution, however, that much of this gain was in ponds, rather than natural wetlands.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A. & Copeland, Claudia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safeguarding the Nation’s Drinking Water: EPA and Congressional Actions (open access)

Safeguarding the Nation’s Drinking Water: EPA and Congressional Actions

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Islamist Extremism in Europe (open access)

Islamist Extremism in Europe

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal R&D Funding Under a Continuing Resolution (open access)

Federal R&D Funding Under a Continuing Resolution

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Davey, Michael E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Net Neutrality: Background and Issues (open access)

Net Neutrality: Background and Issues

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2006 Increase in U.S. Motor Vehicle Imports from Japan (open access)

The 2006 Increase in U.S. Motor Vehicle Imports from Japan

This report examines the increased imports of Japanese vehicles in context of a policy by the Japanese government to reduce the exchange rate of the yen. The report also examines other reasons for the increase in Japanese vehicle imports such as U.S. manufacturers not building the type of car primarily bought by consumers.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Cooney, Stephen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2007 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2007

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Davey, Michael E.; Matthews, Christine M.; Moteff, John D.; Morgan, Daniel; Schacht, Wendy H.; Smith, Pamela W. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inflation: Causes, Costs, and Current Status (open access)

Inflation: Causes, Costs, and Current Status

This report describes the causes, costs, and current status of inflation.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Labonte, Marc & Makinen, Gail E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Markup: Preparation (open access)

House Committee Markup: Preparation

This report is intended as a guide for various tasks that could be accomplished by committee staff in order to prepare a smooth committee markup. This report provides a checklist, one of a series on legislative process; generally applicable in full committee markup, although much of it also applies to a subcommittee markup.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Schneider, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
The FY2008 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (open access)

The FY2008 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Monke, Jim
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Estate and Gift Tax Revenue (open access)

State Estate and Gift Tax Revenue

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Koreas Nuclear Weapons: Latest Developments (open access)

North Koreas Nuclear Weapons: Latest Developments

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft (open access)

V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spectrum Use and the Transition to Digital TV (open access)

Spectrum Use and the Transition to Digital TV

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: unknown
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 13, 2007
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Safety: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Bills in the 110th Congress (open access)

Drug Safety: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Bills in the 110th Congress

This report contains the side-by-side comparison of bills in the 110th Congress on drug safety.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Thaul, Susan
System: The UNT Digital Library
District of Columbia School Reform Proposals: Congress’s Possible Role in the Legislative Process (open access)

District of Columbia School Reform Proposals: Congress’s Possible Role in the Legislative Process

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Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Boyd, Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Markup: Amendment Procedure (open access)

House Committee Markup: Amendment Procedure

This report states the essential purpose of a committee markup is to determine whether a measure pending before a committee should be altered, or amended, in any substantive way.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Schneider, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts (open access)

Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts

This report describes FSAs, the basis for their treatment, and data on their use.
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Peterson, Chris L. & Lyke, Bob
System: The UNT Digital Library