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Synthetic Fuels Corporation and National Synfuels Policy
None
Date:
February 18, 1983
Creator:
Rothberg, Paul F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The FTC's Used Car Rule
This report discusses the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) used car rule, which aims to prevent and discourage oral misrepresentations and deceptive omissions of material facts by those selling used cars concerning warranty coverage and mechanical condition.
Date:
October 14, 1983
Creator:
Mulock, Bruce K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Benefits for Prisoners
On Mar. 24, 1983, the Congress adopted, as part of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 (P.L. 98-21), a measure to preclude virtually all incarcerated felons from receiving social security benefits of any kind, including retirement and survivor benefits. This action expanded previous legislation. In October 1980, legislation had been enacted (P.L. 96-473) that denied only social security disability benefits and student benefits to prisoners convicted of a felony.
Date:
November 1, 1983
Creator:
Koitz, David Stuart
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Crime Control: Administration and Congressional Initiatives
The Reagan Administration announced its major crime Control proposals in 1981, shortly after the final report from the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crimes, and reiterated support for significant changes in Crime control legislation in 1983. Congressional initiatives and modifications of those proposals continue interest and controversy in crime control matters in the 98th Congress.
Date:
October 21, 1983
Creator:
Kaiser, Frederick M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: Alien Beneficiaries
Mounting concern about the payment of social security Benefits to aliens living abroad resulted in the enactment of legislation this year adding new restrictions on the payment of benefits to certain aliens, P.L. 98-21.
Date:
November 1, 1983
Creator:
Koitz, David Stuart
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Job Training Programs: Reauthorization and Funding Issues
This paper is divided into the following sections: (1) History of Federal Employment and Training Programs; (2) Reauthorization Issues; (3) Administration Legislative and Budget Proposals; and (4) Congressional Action.
Date:
January 3, 1983
Creator:
Spar, Karen
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Yellow Rain and Related Issues: Implications for the United States
The United States has charged that the Soviet Union is implicated in the use of chemical weapons in Afghanistan and of chemical and toxin weapons, including the toxin known as "Yellow Rain," in Laos and Kampuchea (Cambodia). These charges raise two significant sets of issues: First, issues surrounding the evidence that has been presented to show: (a) that such weapons have been used and (b) that the Soviet Union is implicated in this use. Second, issues connected with the implications of Soviet involvement, if proven, in chemical and toxin warfare.
Date:
September 29, 1983
Creator:
Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Real Property: Inventory and Disposal Initiatives
This report provides background and discusses the inventory and disposal of public lands and other Federal property. For many years the Federal Government has operated under a statutory policy of retaining public domain lands and has disposed of the proceeds from the sale of surplus property other than by the reduction of the national debt. Under the present system, the Government disposes of some types of land when it is determined to be surplus to Government needs, or, in the case of public lands, when it is determined that the national interest would best be served by the sale or exchange of particular tracts of land.
Date:
January 27, 1983
Creator:
Simmons, Malcolm; Baldwin, Pamela & Bea, Keith
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hospital Cost Containment
This report provides an overview of the dimensions of the problem of rising expenditures for hospital care, the reasons for rising hospital costs, general information on methods of controlling hospital costs and specific programs which have been developed, and some of the issues involved.
Date:
January 10, 1983
Creator:
Lundy, Janet Pernice
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Caribbean Basin Initiative
The Reagan Administration has proposed legislation which would seek to use trade and aid to promote political stability and economic growth in the Caribbean Basin region. Among other things, it would create a one-way free trade zone, where the small nations of the region would have an opportunity for export-led growth through duty-free access to the U.S. market. It would also provide $350 million in economic aid for 1982 to El Salvador and other Caribbean countries.
Date:
September 19, 1983
Creator:
Sanford, Jonathan E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Food Stamps: 1982 Legislation
This report discusses legislative issues regarding food stamp appropriations. Authorization for food stamp appropriations was to have expired at the end of FY82; in addition, the FY83-85 budget resolution assumed substantial savings in food stamps. As a result, and with the potential of an FY82 food stamp funding shortfall averted by the appropriation of a $1 billion supplemental, Congress acted to reauthorize appropriations and limit program costs in the 1982 budget reconciliation process.
Date:
January 10, 1983
Creator:
Richardson, Joe
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Financing
The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program, the largest of the social security programs, will not have sufficient resources to meet its benefit payments on time in July 1983. Even if the program were permitted to continue to borrow from the other social security programs, the financial the shortfall would re-emerge in 1984.
Date:
January 25, 1983
Creator:
Koitz, David Stuart; Kollmann, Geoffrey & Miller, Nancy
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Payment-in-Kind (PIK) Program
Despite Federal efforts last year to curb production and dispose of surpluses, record production and continued high carryover stock levels for most commodities have depressed farm prices and significantly increased expected Federal outlays for agricultural price support programs. In an attempt to bring supply in line with demand, President Reagan announced on January 11, 1983, that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would implement a payment-in-kind (PIK) program for the 1983 wheat, rice, corn, sorghum, and upland cotton crops. Recently, USDA announced a PIK program for the 1984 wheat crop.
Date:
November 9, 1983
Creator:
McMinimy, Mark
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
El Salvador: Policy Issues for the 98th Congress
Since 1981 President Reagan has requested increasing amounts of military and economic aid to assist two embattled Salvadoran governments in he struggle against leftist guerrillas. While Congress has generally supported the Administration's requests for economic aid, it has regularly cut military assistance to El Salvador and has made the aid contingent upon a semi-annual Presidential certification that human rights are improving in the country.
Date:
December 5, 1983
Creator:
Storrs, K. Larry
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Refugee Act Reauthorization: Admissions and Resettlement Issues
The authorization for Federal refugee resettlement assistance provided by the Refugee Act of 1980 expires Sept. 30, 1983. The 97th Congress had extended this assistance authority for one year only pending a more thorough review of the entire Refugee Act including its admissions provisions. Admissions issues that have been of interest to Congress include the role of Congress and the executive branch in establishing annual numerical limits on refugee admissions, and the interpretation of the definition of a refugee. A new block grant refugee assistance program proposed by the Reagan The administration was addressed in hearings on the reauthorization of resettlement assistance; other continuing concerns are refugee dependency on cash assistance and the geographic distribution of refugees in the United states.
Date:
November 22, 1983
Creator:
Vialet, Joyce
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dioxin: Environmental Impacts and Potential Human Health Effects
This issue brief presents a short background on the physical/chemical properties of dioxin, describes several existing sources of possible human exposure, and highlights what is currently known about its environmental impacts and human health effects. Congressional interest is intense at this time because of large numbers of Vietnam veterans' claims for benefits associated with use of herbicides in that war as well as because of certain incidents of potential significance to health involving disposal of wastes containing dioxin.
Date:
October 21, 1983
Creator:
Simpson, Michael M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Immigration Issues and Legislation in the 98th Congress
This report discusses Immigration reform, which continues to be of concern in the '96th Congress, and legislation has been moving quickly. Specific issues include illegal immigration, temporary workers, legalization, asylum adjudications, and legal immigration. The legislation under consideration is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1983, popularly referred to as the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, introduced in the House and Senate on Feb, 17, 1983 as H.R. 1510 and S. 529.
Date:
December 2, 1983
Creator:
Vialet, Joyce
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Coordination of Federal Efforts to Control Illicit Drug Traffic
This report discusses how best to coordinate the Federal government's multi-agency efforts to curb illicit traffic in dangerous drugs has once again become an issue of major interest to the Congress. Critics of the Reagan Administration's anti-drug program contend that it lacks an overall strategy and that it suffers from the absence of a central mechanism for the formulation of general policy as well as for the broad direction of operations
Date:
November 23, 1983
Creator:
Hogan, Harry L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Atrium at the Emily Fowler Library]
Photograph of the atrium in the Emily Fowler branch of the Denton Public Library, from the southwest corner. A very tall corn plant can be seen on the left.
Date:
1983~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Women in the United States Congress
This report identifies women who have served as Senators or as Members of the House of Representatives. It notes their party affiliation, the States they have represented, the dates of their appointment or election, the length of their service, their committee assignments, and their service in committee chairmanships.
Date:
July 13, 1983
Creator:
Schwemle, Barbara L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Black and Hispanic Federal Judges: 1900 to Present
This report shows that in recent years, attention has increasingly focused upon the minority composition of the Federal judiciary, in apparent response to concerns that judges appointed to the Federal bench should more compositely reflect the U.S. population they serve. Two of the larger U.S. subpopulations served by the Federal judiciary are blacks and Hispanics. Accordingly, this mini brief lists chronologically and cumulatively the appointments of blacks and Hispanics to the Federal bench, which includes the U.S.Supreme Court, Circuit Courts of Appeals, and District courts.
Date:
August 9, 1983
Creator:
Bailey, Dorothy J
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Supreme Court: Church-State Cases, October 1983 Term
This report provides an assessment of Supreme Court cases from the 1983-85 Term that involve issues involving the free exercise of religion. It provides a detailed review of the case Lynch v. Donnelly, and brief descriptions of twelve other cases that have not been reviewed.
Date:
December 14, 1983
Creator:
Ackerman, David M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Atrium at the Emily Fowler Library]
Color photograph of the upper level of the Emily Fowler Library, Denton Public Library, taken from the west end of the atrium, looking east. White ceramic pendant lamps hang made by Beaumont Mood hang over the garden. Installation of Lynn Ford carvings hang on the south wall.
Date:
1983~
Creator:
Haskins, Squire
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Atrium at the Emily Fowler Library]
Color photograph of the upper level of the Emily Fowler Library, Denton Public Library, taken from the west end of the atrium. A panel of Lynn Ford wood carvings can be seen on the south wall (right). White ceramic lights made by the Beaumont Mood Lighting Company hang over the garden. The plants in the atrium were funded and maintained by the Denton Garden Culture Club.
Date:
1983~
Creator:
Haskins, Squire
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History