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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
Amtrak: Background and Selected Public Policy Issues
This report discusses the financial troubles of Amtrak, its request for federal financial operating assistance, the Amtrack Reform and Accountability Act of 1997, Amtrak's Strategic Business Plan for FY1999-2002, Amtrak's operating losses, and other rail passenger services that might emerge in the absence of Amtrak, should the company fail.
Date:
March 2, 1999
Creator:
Thompson, Stephen J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Appropriations for FY1999: Legislative Branch
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 House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Legislative Branch Appropriations.
Date:
March 11, 1999
Creator:
Dwyer, Paul E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Cedar Rapids Community School District V. Garret F.: The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act And Related Services
None
Date:
March 5, 1999
Creator:
Jones, Nancy Lee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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 and U.S. Missile Defense Proposals: Reactions and Implications
The Chinese government has strongly criticized U.S. announcements that it will develop or assist in deploying missile defense systems involving cooperation with U.S. allies in East Asia, and reports of such possible U.S. cooperation with Taiwan. For those in the United States, the U.S. plans have many perceived disadvantages and advantages;1 the latter include notably providing degrees of protection for the United States and its allies against ballistic missile attack. Many in China believe that proposed U.S. development and deployment of ballistic missile defenses at home and in East Asia pose potentially serious complications for China’s ability to use its nuclear weapons to deter possible U.S. pressure and aggression, and to use Chinese ballistic missile capability to exert leverage over Japan, Taiwan, and others in East Asia.
Date:
March 17, 1999
Creator:
Sutter, Robert G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
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
Clean Air Act Issues in the 105th Congress
This Issue Brief discusses clean air issues that arose in the 105th Congress. CRS Issue Brief IB10004 addresses the 106th Congress.
Date:
March 3, 1999
Creator:
McCarthy, James E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Commerce Clause as a Limit on Congressional Power to Protect the Environment
Several times during the 1990s the Supreme Court struck down federal enactments as exceeding Congress' power under the Commerce Clause or Tenth Amendment. This report briefly reviews three of these decisions -- United States v. Lopez, New York v. United States, and Printz v. United States. Its focus, however, is how these cases have played out in subsequent lower-court challenges to federal environmental laws. The report shows that Supreme Court rulings in favor of these states notwithstanding, such laws have generally, though not always, been found within Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment limits.
Date:
March 12, 1999
Creator:
Meltz, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Committee Funding Resolutions and Processes, 106th Congress
This report describes the procedures under which committee funding resolutions are considered in the two chambers. A table at the end of the report shows funds approved for the 105th Congress, and the funds requested, recommended, and approved for the 106th Congress for each House committee. The Senate agreed to temporary funding extensions for its committees pending a decision to shift to a fiscal year-based funding process.
Date:
March 25, 1999
Creator:
Rundquist, Paul S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
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
Criminal Aliens: Expanded Detention, Restricted Relief from Removal
None
Date:
March 9, 1999
Creator:
Eig, Larry M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Drug Certification of Mexico in 1999: Arguments For and Against Congressional Resolutions of Disapproval
This report presents arguments for and against congressional resolutions to disapprove President Clinton’s February 26, 1999 certification of Mexico as a fully cooperative country in efforts to control illicit narcotics.1 These resolutions (H.J.Res. 35--Bachus, and H.J.Res. 43--Mica and Gilman) would disapprove the President’s certification, but would permit him to avoid withholding of assistance to Mexico if he determined that vital national interests required such assistance.
Date:
March 30, 1999
Creator:
Storrs, K. Larry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Engrossment, Enrollment, and Presentation of Legislation
None
Date:
March 2, 1999
Creator:
Rundquist, Paul S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Engrossment, Enrollment, and Presentation of Legislation
Engrossment, enrollment, and presentation of legislation are technical components of the legislative process. They attest to the accuracy of bill texts, confirm passage by the House and Senate, and confirm delivery of the bills to the President for his review.
Date:
March 2, 1999
Creator:
Rundquist, Paul S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Executive Orders and Proclamations
None
Date:
March 9, 1999
Creator:
Contrubis, John
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
This report gives an overview of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which was intended to prohibit bribery of foreign officials by American corporations. It includes information about the original legislation, amendments in 1988, and amendments in 1998 that brought the legislation into conformance with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's agreement on bribery.
Date:
March 3, 1999
Creator:
Seitzinger, Michael V.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Government Performance and Results Act: Implementation and Issues of Possible Concern, 106th Congress
Most federal agencies have submitted their second performance plans (for FY2000) that were mandated by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, P.L. 103-62. The GAO and congressional groups have assessed implementation activities
Date:
March 30, 1999
Creator:
Knezo, Genevieve J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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