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Intelligence Implications of the Military Technical Revolution
The availability of precise, real-time intelligence has been an integral part of a military technical revolution being implemented by the Department of Defense for post-Cold War conflicts and peacekeeping operations. Providing this intelligence requires new types of equipment, analysis and organizational relationships within the U.S. intelligence community.
Date:
May 1, 1995
Creator:
Best, Richard A., Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The National Guard, State Defense Forces, And the Militias: Official and Unofficial Status
This short report discusses the differences between state militias (e.g. state Army National Guard and Air National Guard units), state military forces with no federal connections, and private organizations that claim to be state militias but which are not sanctioned by the state.
Date:
May 9, 1995
Creator:
Goldich, Robert L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U. N. Development Program: A Fact Sheet
The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) coordinates and provides funding for most U.N. development assistance programs. In FY1994, the U.S. contribution of $116 million made the United States the largest donor, comprising about 12 percent of the agency's budget.
Date:
May 10, 1995
Creator:
McHugh, Lois
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Biological Diversity Treaty: Fact Sheet
As human activity continues to change and modify natural areas, widespread extinctions of plants, animals, and other types of species result. In 1992, negotiations conducted under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) were completed on a comprehensive global treaty to protect biological diversity (biodiversity). In June 1993, President Clinton signed the treaty and sent it to the Senate for advice and consent. It is not pending in the Senate. The treaty entered into force on December 29, 1993. As of May 15, 1995, 118 nations had ratified the treaty.
Date:
May 16, 1995
Creator:
Fletcher, Susan R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Haiti: Efforts to Restore President Aristide, 1991-1994
This report tracks the efforts to restore to office President Aristide of Haiti between the years 1991-1994. During this period, the main U.S. foreign policy concern was the restoration of the democratic process to Haiti. Closely related to this was the issue of Haitians attempting to flee to the United States by boat. Congressional concerns focused on human rights, Haitian migration, socioeconomic conditions, and drug trafficking.
Date:
May 11, 1995
Creator:
Taft-Morales, Maureen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conventional Arms Transfers: President Clinton's Policy Directive
President Clinton released details of his Conventional Arms Transfer Policy on February 17, 1995, which are embodied in Presidential Decision Directive 34 (PDD-34). The President's action followed several months of internal debate and discussion by the Clinton Administration, the first detailed examination of conventional arms transfer policy since the Cold War's end.
Date:
May 17, 1995
Creator:
Grimmett, Richard F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Unconstitutionality of State Congressional Term Limits
On May 22, 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (Sup. Ct. Doc. No. 93-1456) in a 5-4 decision held that Arkansas' constitutional amendment, Section 3 of Amendment 73, providing for limitations on congressional terms of office was unconstitutional in that it established an additional qualification for congressional office in violation of Article I, Sections 2 and 3 setting forth the three basic qualifications of age, citizenship and inhabitancy for Members of Congress.
Date:
May 31, 1995
Creator:
Durbin, Thomas M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Aid: Implementing the Assistance Program, 1992-1994
In fiscal year 1994, the new states of the former Soviet Union became collectively the second largest recipient of U.S. foreign assistance made available from all sources. Whether and how the assistance program is helping to bring about democratic systems and free market economies is increasingly a question of interest to Congress and the public at large.
Date:
January 18, 1995
Creator:
Tarnoff, Curt
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Committee System: Rules Changes in the House, 104th Congress
This fact sheet details changes in the committee system contained in H. Res. 6, Rules of the House for the 104th Congress.
Date:
January 24, 1995
Creator:
Schneider, Judy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Gun Control Laws: The Second Amendment and Other Constitutional Issues
This report examines the historical, legal, and constitutional arguments for and against an individual right to bear firearms under the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Those who favor federal gun control laws tend to assert that the Second Amendment has been correctly interpreted by the courts to confer only a collective right, which may be exercised through state militias. Those who oppose gun control laws tend to assert that the Second Amendment should be interpreted to grant an individual right to bear arms for lawful purposes, subject to appropriately minimal restrictions.
Date:
February 1, 1995
Creator:
Schrader, Dorothy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The GATT and the WTO: An Overview
The Uruguay Round Agreement reduced tariffs, brought services, intellectual property, and agriculture under the discipline of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and established the World Trade Organization. Multilateral trade issues for the future include continuing services negotiations, the relationship of the environment and labor standards to trade, and investment and competition policy.
Date:
March 27, 1995
Creator:
Wilson, Arlene
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Investigative Oversight: An Introduction to the Law, Practice and Procedure of Congressional Inquiry
This report provides an overview of some of the more common legal, procedural, and practical issues, questions and problems that committees have faced in the courts of an oversight investigation.
Date:
April 7, 1995
Creator:
Rosenberg, Morton
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Military Retirement and Veterans' Compensation: Concurrent Receipt Issues
This report describes the history and background of the offset and the legislative history of recent attempts to eliminate or reduce the offset. It delineates and analyzes the arguments for and against eliminating or reducing the offset and allowing concurrent receipt, and addresses the issues of costs, precedents in other Federal programs, purposes of the two programs, and equity issues. Finally, options other than full concurrent receipt are mentioned.
Date:
April 7, 1995
Creator:
Goldich, Robert L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Brady Handgun Control Act: Constitutional Issues
The Brady Handgun Control Act established a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases, during which local law enforcement can make reasonable efforts to conduct background checks in available records and block and sales to convicted felons and other disqualified persons. This report reviews the background of federal gun control legislation, analyzes the conflict in the courts over the constitutionality under the Tenth Amendment of the duties placed on local law enforcement, and considers the implications of the decisions for Brady Act enforcement.
Date:
October 25, 1995
Creator:
Schrader, Dorothy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Assault Weapons Ban: Review of Federal Laws Controlling Possessions of Certain Firearms
This report reviews the 1994 assault weapons ban, which is effective for ten years on 19 types of semiautomatic assault weapons. The Act builds upon a 60-year history of federal regulation of firearms. The report also summarizes the pre-1994 federal gun control laws, analyzes the major cases relating to constitutional and statutory challenges to these laws, and reviews judicial and legislative developments since enactment of the ban.
Date:
December 1, 1995
Creator:
Schrader, Dorothy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY1996 : Agriculture
None
Date:
October 27, 1995
Creator:
Chite, Ralph M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Substance Abusers: New Rules for Disability Benefits from Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance
None
Date:
February 16, 1995
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY1996 : Military Construction One of a series of CRS Reports on FY1996 appropriations
This report addresses the Military Construction(MilCon) Appropriations for FY1996.
Date:
October 5, 1995
Creator:
Siehl, George H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Commuter and Large Air Carriers: Is It Time For One Level of Safety?
None
Date:
March 6, 1995
Creator:
Moore, J. Glen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1987-1994
None
Date:
August 4, 1995
Creator:
Grimmett, Richard F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.N . Regular Budget Funding : Issues for Congress
None
Date:
May 15, 1995
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Crime Control Assistance Through the Byrne Programs
None
Date:
January 5, 1995
Creator:
Bea, Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Department of Science and Technology: A Recurring Theme
Consolidation of many Federal research and development (R&D) activities into a Department of Science and Technology (S&T) has been proposed repeatedly since World War D, including in the last Congress. The trend, however, has been toward the creation of mission agencies with supporting R&D capabilities. Analyses of arguments for and against consolidation indicate that valid reasons exist on both sides of the issue. Specific consolidation proposals may be considered again during the 104th Congress.
Date:
February 3, 1995
Creator:
Boesman, William C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Individual Transferable Quotas in Fishery Management
This report discusses individual transferable quota (ITQ), which is an allocated privilege of landing a specified portion of the total annual fish catch in the form of quota shares.
Date:
September 25, 1995
Creator:
Buck, Eugene H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library