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Legal Issues Related to Proposed Drilling for Oil and Gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
This report outlines legal issues around permit drilling for oil and gas in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Alaska as background for congressional legislation. Updated March 18, 2023.
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Baldwin, Pamela
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Enron: A Select Chronology of Congressional, Corporate, and Government Activities
This report presents basic background information on the collapse of the Enron Corporation, identifying public policy issues in financial market oversight. This report briefly summarizes some federal laws carrying criminal penalties which may be implicated in the events surrounding the collapse of the Enron Corp. This report compares the auditing and accounting reform measures passed by the House (H.R. 3763) and reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. This report compares the major provisions of three auditor and accounting reform proposals: H.R. 3763, S. 2673, and a rule proposed on June 20, 2002, by the SEC that would create a new auditor oversight board by using the SEC’s existing authority to regulate corporate accounting. The report focuses on Section 404(a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the federal statute that regulates employer-sponsored pension plans. Section 404(a) is considered the “touchstone for understanding the scope and object of an ERISA fiduciary’s duties.”
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Anderson, J. Michael
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: International Policy and Options
Over the past decade, worldwide production of illicit drugs has risen dramatically: opium and marijuana production has roughly doubled and coca production tripled. Street prices of cocaine and heroin have fallen significantly in the past 20 years, reflecting increased availability. Despite apparent national political resolve to deal with the drug problem, inherent contradictions regularly appear between U.S. anti-drug policy and other national policy goals and concerns. The mix of competing domestic and international pressures and priorities has produced an ongoing series of disputes within and between the legislative and executive branches concerning U.S. international drug policy. One contentious issue has been the Congressionally-mandated certification process, an instrument designed to induce specified drug-exporting countries to prioritize or pay more attention to the fight against narcotics businesses.
Date:
March 18, 2002
Creator:
Lee, Rensselaer & Perl, Raphael F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trafficking in Women and Children: The U.S. and International Response
This report analyzes the statistics of human trafficking victims across the world. The report discusses the efforts of the United States to prevent trafficking and assisting victims from the Bush Administration to present day.
Date:
March 18, 2002
Creator:
Miko, Francis T. & Park, Grace (Jea-Hyun)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding
None
Date:
March 18, 2005
Creator:
Laney, Garrine P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance
None
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Grimmett, Richard F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Optional Federal Chartering for Insurers: Major Interest Groups
None
Date:
March 18, 2002
Creator:
Woodall, S. Roy, Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Taiwan: Texts of the Taiwan Relations Act and the U.S.-China Communiques
Tensions in the Taiwan Straits are prompting American policymakers to consider a range of measures that would demonstrate U.S. interests in Taiwan's security. President Clinton has ordered two U.S. carrier battle groups into the South China Sea, and Congress is considering legislation that would more forcefully express U.S. defense commitments to Taiwan.
Date:
March 18, 1996
Creator:
Dumbaugh, Kerry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The United Nations Security Council - Its Role in the Iraq Crisis: A Brief Overview
None
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Browne, Marjorie Ann
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Immigration: Visa Waiver Pilot Program
The Visa Waiver Pilot Program (VWPP) allows aliens traveling from certain designated countries to come to the United States as temporary visitors without having the immigration documents normally required to enter the United States. Some maintain it fosters international travel to the United States and eases the workload of the consular offices abroad. Others observe that it by-passes the most important screening step of who is permitted to enter the United States, cautioning that it may inadvertently stimulate immigration violations. The program was scheduled to expire on September 30, 1997, but temporary extensions were included in both Continuing Resolutions. The Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary (CJS) FY1998 appropriations act (P.L. 105- 119) contains an extension through April 30, 1998. Bills to formally extend the program have passed the Senate (S. 1178) and have been reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 2578). H.R. 2578 is expected to come to the House floor before the April recess.
Date:
March 18, 1998
Creator:
Wasem, Ruth Ellen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: Chronology of Provocations, 1950-2003
None
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative R&D: Federal Efforts to Promote Industrial Competitiveness
In response to the foreign challenge in the global marketplace, the United States Congress has explored ways to stimulate technological advancement in the private sector. The government has supported various efforts to promote cooperative research and development activities among industry, universities, and the federal R&D establishment designed to increase the competitiveness of American industry and to encourage the generation of new products, processes, and services. Among the issues before Congress are whether joint ventures contribute to industrial competitiveness and what role, if any, the government has in facilitating such arrangements.
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Schacht, Wendy H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Frequently Asked Questions About Contracting
None
Date:
March 18, 2005
Creator:
Grasso, Valerie Bailey
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform
None
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Kollmann, Geoffrey & Nuschler, Dawn
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Broadband Internet Access: Background and Issues
From a public policy perspective, the goals are to ensure that broadband deployment is timely, that industry competes fairly, and that service is provided to all sectors and geographical locations of American society. The federal government -- through Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) -- is seeking to ensure fair competition among the players so that broadband will be available and affordable in a timely manner to all Americans who want it. While the FCC's position is not to intervene at this time, some assert that legislation is necessary to ensure fair competition and timely broadband deployment. One proposal would ease certain legal restrictions and requirements, imposed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, on incumbent telephone companies who provide high speed data (broadband) access. Another proposal would compel cable companies to provide "open access" to competing Internet service providers.
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Gilroy, Angele A. & Kruger, Lennard G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technology Transfer: Use of Federally Funded Research and Development
None
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Schacht, Wendy H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Implications for the United States
Ministers of the 29 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have struggled since 1995 to negotiate a Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). Negotiations on many aspects of a final agreement have progressed rapidly, but OECD members have been unable to resolve numerous thorny issues before the latest deadline set for the OECD Ministerial meeting in April 1998. U.S. negotiators have indicated that they will not sign the present agreement without significant changes and oppose establishing another deadline.
Date:
March 18, 1998
Creator:
Jackson, James K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Status of Trade Legislation in the 107th Congress
None
Date:
March 18, 2002
Creator:
Jones, Vivian C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Transportation Issues in the 107th Congress
None
Date:
March 18, 2002
Creator:
Harrison, Glennon J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Financing
This is one report in the series of reports that discuss the campaign finance practices and related issues. Concerns over financing federal elections have become a seemingly perennial aspect of our political system, centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs and reliance on interest groups for needed campaign funds. The report talks about the today’s paramount issues such as perceived loopholes in current law and the longstanding issues: overall costs, funding sources, and competition.
Date:
March 18, 2004
Creator:
Cantor, Joseph E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Central Asia: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests
This report provides an overview of U.S. policy concerns and relations with countries in central Asia. The report discusses issues such as Fostering Pro-Western Orientations, Obstacles to Peace and Independence, Democratization and Human Rights, Security and Arms Control, Trade and Investment, and provides an Aid Overview.
Date:
March 18, 2005
Creator:
Nichol, Jim
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Network Centric Warfare: Background and Oversight Issues for Congress
None
Date:
March 18, 2005
Creator:
Wilson, Clay
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Middle East Peace Talks
None
Date:
March 18, 2005
Creator:
Migdalovitz, Carol
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Potential Humanitarian Issues in Post-War Iraq: An Overview for Congress
This report discusses the Oil For Food Program (OFFP) has alleviated some of the worst effects of the 1991 Gulf-War international sanctions regime. While some improvements have been seen in nutrition, health services, water supply and sanitation, there is greater dependence on government services, and observers of the Iraq situation have identified disturbing health and nutrition problems affecting the civilian population.
Date:
March 18, 2003
Creator:
Margesson, Rhoda & Bockman, Johanna
System:
The UNT Digital Library