9 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

Adoption Promotion Legislation in the 105th Congress (open access)

Adoption Promotion Legislation in the 105th Congress

This report discusses the type of adoption legislation in the 105th Congress. Specifically, the report tackles the idea that children are kept in foster care too long and that this may cause lower adoption rates. The report also discusses the enormous support for this legislation in the Senate and the House.
Date: November 24, 1997
Creator: Spar, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adoption Promotion Legislation in the 105th Congress (open access)

Adoption Promotion Legislation in the 105th Congress

President Clinton signed the Adoption and Safe Families Act into law on November 19, 1997, after the House and Senate approved final versions of the legislation on November 13. The new law (P.L. 105-89) is intended to promote adoption or other permanent arrangements for foster children who are unable to return home, and to make general improvements in the nation’s child welfare system. The House initially passed legislation (H.R. 867) on April 30 by a vote of 416-5, and the Senate passed an amended version on November 8. A compromise version was passed on November 13, by a vote of 406-7 in the House and by unanimous consent in the Senate. This report discusses the final version of the legislation, as enacted into law.
Date: November 24, 1997
Creator: Spar, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budget Reconciliation in the 105th Congress: Achieving a Balanced Budget by 2002 (open access)

Budget Reconciliation in the 105th Congress: Achieving a Balanced Budget by 2002

This report consists of the budget reconciliation in the 105th congress with achieving a balance budget by 2002.
Date: September 11, 1997
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart & Nuschler, Dawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budget Reconciliation in the 105th Congress: Achieving a Balanced Budget by 2002 (open access)

Budget Reconciliation in the 105th Congress: Achieving a Balanced Budget by 2002

Achievement of a balanced federal budget by 2002 was a high priority for the 105th Congress and the President. After months of negotiations and debate, starting in February 1997 and ending in July 1997, congressional leaders and the White House forged a consensus on legislation to accomplish this goal. The legislation, signed into law by President Clinton on August 5, 1997, sets “caps” on discretionary spending, constrains entitlement programs, and on balance reduces federal taxes.
Date: September 11, 1997
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart & Nuschler, Dawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Issues in the 105th Congress (open access)

Clean Water Issues in the 105th Congress

None
Date: August 21, 1997
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Issues in the 105th Congress (open access)

Clean Water Issues in the 105th Congress

For the 105th Congress, reauthorization of the Clean Water Act may be a priority in the second session. The Act was last amended in 1987 and authorizations expired on Sept. 30, 1990. Clean water was a priority for the last two Congresses, but no legislation was enacted. In the 104th Congress, the House passed a comprehensive reauthorization bill, but during House debate and subsequently, controversies arose over whether and how the Act should be made more flexible and less burdensome on regulated entities. Issues likely to be of interest again in the 105th Congress include funding, overall flexibility and regulatory reform of water quality programs, and measures to address polluted runoff from farms and city streets.
Date: August 21, 1997
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee System: Rules Changes in the House, 105th Congress (open access)

Committee System: Rules Changes in the House, 105th Congress

None
Date: January 23, 1997
Creator: Schneider, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Issues: From the 104th to the 105th Congress (open access)

Environmental Protection Issues: From the 104th to the 105th Congress

The continued interest in regulatory reform measures in the final moments of the 104th Congress suggests that the 105th Congress will consider them again. At the same time the fact that the 104th Congress enacted flexibility provisions in drinking water and food safety/pesticides legislation could be an indicator that the 105th Congress may pursue reforms in individual reauthorization legislation rather than in broad regulatory reform bills.
Date: January 7, 1997
Creator: Lee, Martin R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Legislation in the 105th Congress (open access)

Environmental Protection Legislation in the 105th Congress

The 105th Congress enacted tax provisions relating to Superfund brownfields sites, transportation- and defense-related environmental provisions, a border smog bill, EPA funding as well as reinstating the tax that supports the Leaking Underground Storage Trust Fund. There were various actions on regulatory reform, the budget resolution, appropriations, highway- and defense-related environmental provisions, Superfund reform bills and underground storage tanks. It is too early to tell if these will be issues for the 106th Congress.
Date: September 18, 1997
Creator: Lee, Martin R.
System: The UNT Digital Library