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The DHL Airways / Astar Air Cargo Controversy and Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

The DHL Airways / Astar Air Cargo Controversy and Legislation in the 108th Congress

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Date: December 29, 2003
Creator: Robinson, Alan M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Environmental Protection Issues in the 108th Congress

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Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Fletcher, Susan R. & Isler, Margaret
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Committee Party Ratios: 98th-114th Congresses (open access)

Senate Committee Party Ratios: 98th-114th Congresses

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Date: December 7, 2015
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sports Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

Sports Legislation in the 108th Congress

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Date: December 8, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Taxation: Issues and Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

Internet Taxation: Issues and Legislation in the 108th Congress

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Date: December 17, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade Negotiations During the 109th Congress (open access)

Trade Negotiations During the 109th Congress

This report discusses trade issues in the 109th Congress. For over 50 years, U.S. trade officials have negotiated multilateral trade agreements to achieve lower trade barriers and rules to cover international trade. During the 108th Congress, U.S. officials negotiated and Congress approved four bilateral free-trade agreements with Australia, Chile, Morocco, and Singapore.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Fergusson, Ian F. & Sek, Lenore M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform (open access)

Social Security Reform

This report examines the debate over the future of the Social Security system. It includes discussion of recent developments; background and analysis with information about the basic debate, specific area of contention, reform initiatives; and relevant legislation.
Date: December 9, 2004
Creator: Nuschler, Dawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues (open access)

Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues

This report discusses key drinking water issues in the 108th Congress involving water infrastructure funding and problems caused by specific contaminants, such as the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), perchlorate, and lead in drinking water. Congress last reauthorized the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in 1996, and although funding authority for most SDWA programs expired in FY2003, broad reauthorization efforts were not pursued as EPA, states, and water utilities continued implementing the 1996 amendments.
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Tiemann, Mary
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Act Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Clean Water Act Issues in the 108th Congress

This report discusses issues regarding the Clean Water Act. Prospects for legislative initiatives to comprehensively amend the Clean Water Act (CWA) have stalled for some time over whether and exactly how to change the law, and Congress has recently focused legislative attention on narrow bills to extend or modify selected CWA programs, rather than taking up comprehensive proposals. For example, the 108th Congress enacted one bill amending the CWA, legislation to reauthorize the National Estuary Program (H.R. 4731, P.L. 108-399).
Date: December 6, 2004
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development: Budgeting and Priority-Setting Issues, 108th Congress (open access)

Federal Research and Development: Budgeting and Priority-Setting Issues, 108th Congress

This report discusses federal funding for research and development. National R&D funding continues to grow, but the federal R&D share has declined to less than 30% of the total. Debates focus on which fields of federal R&D should be increased and how to set priorities and to "balance" health and nonhealth fields.
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Knezo, Genevieve J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Major Tax Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Major Tax Issues in the 108th Congress

This report provides an overview of major tax issues. It begins by describing three aspects of the economic context in which the tax policy debate during 2004 is likely to occur: the general state of the U.S. economy; the position of the federal budget; and the level of taxes in the United States.
Date: December 2, 2004
Creator: Brumbaugh, David L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 108th Congress

This report discusses policy and legislation regarding fish and marine mammals. These animals are important resources in open ocean and nearshore coastal areas. Commercial and sport fishing are jointly managed by the federal government and individual states. Many laws and regulations guide the management of these resources by federal agencies.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
War On Drugs: Legislation in the 108th Congress and Related Developments (open access)

War On Drugs: Legislation in the 108th Congress and Related Developments

This report covers significant legislative and oversight activities of the 108th Congress that concern domestic law enforcement aspects of federal anti-drug policy. Also included will be significant executive branch actions and other current developments of likely interest to the congressional audience that follows this issue.
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Eddy, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Major Leadership Election Contests in the House of Representatives, 94th-111th Congresses (open access)

Major Leadership Election Contests in the House of Representatives, 94th-111th Congresses

This report contains data on votes for Speaker of the House for the 94th through 110th Congresses and elections in party conferences or caucuses for major leaders within each party for the 94th through 111th Congresses. It reflects actual balloting on the House floor for Speaker and in the Democratic Caucus and Republican Conference for other positions.
Date: December 31, 2008
Creator: Amer, Mildred
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fair Labor Standards Act: Minimum Wage in the 108th Congress (open access)

The Fair Labor Standards Act: Minimum Wage in the 108th Congress

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Date: December 16, 2003
Creator: Whittaker, William G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewable Energy: Tax Credit, Budget, and Electricity Production Issues (open access)

Renewable Energy: Tax Credit, Budget, and Electricity Production Issues

This report discusses budget issues regarding renewable energy programs. In the 108th Congress, debate over renewable energy programs has focused on tax credits, incentives, budget, and provisions of the omnibus energy policy bill H.R. 6.
Date: December 1, 2004
Creator: Sissine, Fred
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Finance Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

Campaign Finance Legislation in the 108th Congress

This report discusses the 30 bills introduced during the 108th Congress seeking to improve campaign finance laws.
Date: December 15, 2004
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Endangered Species: Difficult Choices (open access)

Endangered Species: Difficult Choices

This report discusses various measures being considered by Congress that propose to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). Major issues in recent years have focused on whether to incorporate further protection for property owners and reduce regulatory impacts, whether to increase the protection afforded listed species, or whether to modify various aspects of the ESA, such as the role of science in decision-making.
Date: December 9, 2003
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.; Corn, M. L. & Baldwin, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Provisions in Surface Transportation Reauthorization Legislation Proposed During the 108th Congress (open access)

Environmental Provisions in Surface Transportation Reauthorization Legislation Proposed During the 108th Congress

This report discusses significant legislative provisions regarding environmental issues in bills, passed by both the House and Senate during the 108th Congress, that the 108th Congress, that would have reauthorized surface transportation programs for FY2004-FY2009.
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Luther, Linda G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Streamlining Environmental Reviews of Highway and Transit Projects: Analysis of Legislative Proposals During the 108th Congress (open access)
Child Care Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Child Care Issues in the 108th Congress

This report discusses the federal child care-related programs and tax provisions, FY2003 Appropriations, FY2004: Comparing President Bush's Budget Proposals and Hearings.
Date: December 17, 2004
Creator: Gish, Melinda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues for the 108th Congress (open access)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues for the 108th Congress

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Date: December 20, 2004
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Electricity Provisions in the Conference Report on H.R. 6, 108th Congress (open access)

Summary of Electricity Provisions in the Conference Report on H.R. 6, 108th Congress

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Date: December 17, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development: Budgeting and Priority-Setting Issues, 108th Congress (open access)

Federal Research and Development: Budgeting and Priority-Setting Issues, 108th Congress

This report provides information about the Budgeting and Priority-Setting Issues, 108th Congress on Federal Research and Development. Federal R & D funding priorities change over time, reflecting presidential and national preferences.
Date: December 22, 2003
Creator: Knezo, Genevieve J.
System: The UNT Digital Library