Defense Acquisition Workforce: Issues for Congress (open access)

Defense Acquisition Workforce: Issues for Congress

This report discusses recent congressionally mandated reductions in the Department of Defense(DOD) acquisition workforce.
Date: March 11, 1999
Creator: Grasso, Valerie Bailey
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criminal Aliens: Expanded Detention, Restricted Relief from Removal (open access)

Criminal Aliens: Expanded Detention, Restricted Relief from Removal

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Date: March 9, 1999
Creator: Eig, Larry M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Post-War Challenges and U.S. Responses, 1991-1998 (open access)

Iraq: Post-War Challenges and U.S. Responses, 1991-1998

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Date: March 31, 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
THE PERSIAN GULF: ISSUES FOR U.S. POLICY, 1999 (open access)

THE PERSIAN GULF: ISSUES FOR U.S. POLICY, 1999

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Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taxpayer Bill of Rights 3: 1998 Tax Law Part 3: Attorneys' Fees and Damages for IRS Abuses (open access)

Taxpayer Bill of Rights 3: 1998 Tax Law Part 3: Attorneys' Fees and Damages for IRS Abuses

This report discusses the provisions expanding a court's authority to award attorney's fees and costs in certain cases and permitting a taxpayer to collect damages for negligent collection actions by IRS agents.
Date: March 9, 1999
Creator: Morris, Marie B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gun Industry Liability: Lawsuits and Legislation (open access)

Gun Industry Liability: Lawsuits and Legislation

This report discusses gun industry liability issues after the Maryland Court of Appeals announced that it was changing the common law "to hold the manufacturers and marketers of Saturday Night Special handguns strictly liable to innocent persons who suffer gunshot injuries from the criminal use of their products." Kelley v. R.G. Industries, Inc., 497 A.2d 1143, 1159 (Md. 1985).
Date: March 30, 1999
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Credit Union Membership Act Implementation: Legal Issues (open access)

Credit Union Membership Act Implementation: Legal Issues

This report examines the background and issues of the litigation regarding Regulations implementing the Credit Union Membership Act of 1998 that is being challenged in court as impermissively expansive.
Date: March 12, 1999
Creator: Murphy, M. Maureen
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Hearings: Scheduling and Notification (open access)

House Committee Hearings: Scheduling and Notification

This report mainly discusses about the Scheduling and Notification on House Committee Hearings.Each house committee has the authority to hold hearings whether the white house is in the session has recessed or adjourned.
Date: March 8, 1999
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): A Fact Sheet (open access)

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): A Fact Sheet

This report provides an overview of the Convention and U.S. position on possible adherence. The treaty requires States parties to take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in political and public life, law, education, employment, health care, commercial transactions, and domestic relations.
Date: March 1, 1999
Creator: Ohara, Chikako
System: The UNT Digital Library
Telephone Excise Tax (open access)

Telephone Excise Tax

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Date: March 16, 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Executive Orders and Proclamations (open access)

Executive Orders and Proclamations

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Date: March 9, 1999
Creator: Contrubis, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY1999: Legislative Branch (open access)

Appropriations for FY1999: Legislative Branch

This report is a guide to appropriations of Legislative Branch.
Date: March 11, 1999
Creator: Dwyer, Paul E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
MILITARY CONTINGENCY FUNDING FOR BOSNIA, SOUTHWEST ASIA, AND OTHER OPERATIONS: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (open access)

MILITARY CONTINGENCY FUNDING FOR BOSNIA, SOUTHWEST ASIA, AND OTHER OPERATIONS: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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Date: March 29, 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Caribbean Basin Enhancement Legislation (open access)

Caribbean Basin Enhancement Legislation

Legislation provides Caribbean countries similar tariff benefits as Mexico under the Caribbean and Central American Relief and Economic Stabilization Act. A senate bill provides relief to the hurricane affected countries of Central America. The senate bill is more restrictive than the House bill in the scope of tariff benefits offered.
Date: March 26, 1999
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engrossment, Enrollment, and Presentation of Legislation (open access)

Engrossment, Enrollment, and Presentation of Legislation

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Date: March 2, 1999
Creator: Rundquist, Paul S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Care Subsidies: Federal Grants and Tax Benefits for Working Families (open access)

Child Care Subsidies: Federal Grants and Tax Benefits for Working Families

This report examines the subsidies that families might receive under the Child Care and Development Fund(CCDF) and the Dependent care tax credit(DCTC) and the subsequent out-of-pocket costs they might bear, depending on their income and the state in which they live.
Date: March 15, 1999
Creator: Gabe, Thomas; Lyke, Bob & Spar, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library
China’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for U.S. Economic Interests (open access)

China’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for U.S. Economic Interests

This report addresses implications for U.S. economic interests related China’s response to the Global Financial Crisis.
Date: March 3, 1999
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intellectual Property Protection for Databases at the International Level: Copyright and Sui Generis Forms of Protection (open access)
Mexico and Certification in 1999 : Consequences Decertificatio (open access)

Mexico and Certification in 1999 : Consequences Decertificatio

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Date: March 4, 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220 (open access)

Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220

This report is concerned with the federal adult education and literacy programs authorized by the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA). The report covers funding and spending in the program and how it is budgeted. The report also discusses the consequences of the AEFLA repealing the Adult Education Act (AEA) but continuing some of the programs that were under it.
Date: March 25, 1999
Creator: Irwin, Paul M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
China-U.S. Summitry: Premier Zhu Rongji’s April 1999 Visit (open access)

China-U.S. Summitry: Premier Zhu Rongji’s April 1999 Visit

This report contains an overview of Premier Zhu Rongji's first official vist to the United States. This report provides the U.S.-China troubles and individual goals and constraints.
Date: March 30, 1999
Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security’s Treatment Under the Federal Budget: A Summary (open access)

Social Security’s Treatment Under the Federal Budget: A Summary

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Date: March 24, 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Judicial Improvement Act of 1999, S . 248, 106 th Congress P. L. Morgan Legislative Attorney (open access)

Judicial Improvement Act of 1999, S . 248, 106 th Congress P. L. Morgan Legislative Attorney

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Date: March 10, 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library