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The Proposed Tobacco Settlement: Effects on Prices, Smoking Behavior, and Income Distribution (open access)

The Proposed Tobacco Settlement: Effects on Prices, Smoking Behavior, and Income Distribution

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Date: May 5, 1998
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Proposed Tobacco Settlement: Who Pays for the Health Costs of Smoking? (open access)

The Proposed Tobacco Settlement: Who Pays for the Health Costs of Smoking?

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Date: April 30, 1998
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary and Comparison of the Major Agricultural Provisions of the Tobacco Settlement Policy Proposals (open access)

Summary and Comparison of the Major Agricultural Provisions of the Tobacco Settlement Policy Proposals

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Date: July 6, 1998
Creator: Womach, Jasper
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit: A Fact Sheet (open access)

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit: A Fact Sheet

The 104th Congress replaced the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC, 1978-1994) with the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) in section 1201 of the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-188). This document provides basic facts about the WOTC.
Date: April 2, 1998
Creator: Levine, Linda
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sequestration Process (open access)

The Sequestration Process

Sequestration is the cancellation of budgetary resources for the purpose of enforcing statutory budget limits and pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) requirements. This process is triggered automatically when these statutory limits or PAYGO rules have been violated as a result of legislative actions.
Date: December 28, 1998
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Timetable for Sequestration Actions (open access)

Timetable for Sequestration Actions

Sequestration--the automatic across-the-board cancellation of budgetary resources for the purpose of enforcing budgetary goals--was first established by the 1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (Title II of P.L. 99-177). Section 254 of this act, as amended, provides a timetable for sequestration actions.
Date: December 28, 1998
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Agency: An Analysis of Key FY1999 Budget Issues (open access)

Environmental Protection Agency: An Analysis of Key FY1999 Budget Issues

On February 2, 1998, the President requested $7.8 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in FY1999. The Senate Appropriations Committee reported S. 2168 (S.Rept. 105-216) on June 12; the full Senate passed the bill on July 17. The House Committee reported H.R. 4194 (H.Rept. 105-610) on July 8, 1998; the full House passed it on July 29; and the Senate passed it on July 30 after incorporating S. 2168's provisions. During the week of October 6, the House and Senate approved the conference report, H.Rept. 105-769, which includes $7.5 billion, thus clearing the bill for the President's signature of October 21 (P.L. 105-276). The Omnibus Appropriations Act (P.L. 105-277) added $30 million more in FY1999 funds.
Date: December 4, 1998
Creator: Lee, Martin R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Budget for Fiscal Year 1998 (open access)

The Budget for Fiscal Year 1998

This report discusses the efforts to reach an agreement on the fiscal year (FY) 1998 budget were, in many respects, a continuation of the efforts to balance the federal budget by (or before) FY2002. The proposals and legislation for FY1998 were designed to move the budget further towards balance.
Date: July 22, 1998
Creator: Winters, Philip D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Agency: FY1998 Budget (open access)

Environmental Protection Agency: FY1998 Budget

EPA appropriations are included in the annual VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriation Bill. Two major issues were whether Superfund cleanups should be accelerated in the absence of statutory reforms and whether the requested state assistance funds are adequate. Because the House and Senate were in agreement on not granting the requested 50% increase in Superfund and in passing increased state funds, the chief conference issue focused on the roughly $225 million difference between the House and Senate versions.
Date: January 12, 1998
Creator: Lee, Martin R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Budget Enforcement Act: Its Operation Under a Budget Surplus (open access)

The Budget Enforcement Act: Its Operation Under a Budget Surplus

The Budget Enforcement Act was enacted in 1990 in an effort to control future budgetary actions. It did this through two separate, but related, mechanisms: limits on discretionary spending, and the pay-as-you-go process to require that any legislative action on direct spending or revenues which would increase the deficit be offset. These procedures currently would apply through FY2002 (for legislation enacted before October 1, 2002, for measures affecting direct spending or revenues), regardless of whether the budget is in deficit or surplus.
Date: February 11, 1998
Creator: Saturno, James V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budget Surpluses: Economic Effects of Debt Repayment, Tax Cuts, or Spending - An Overview (open access)

Budget Surpluses: Economic Effects of Debt Repayment, Tax Cuts, or Spending - An Overview

Updated projections released on July 15 by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) indicate budget surpluses rising from $63 billion (0.9% of GDP) in FY1998 to more than $100 billion (1.3% to 1.5% of GDP) from FY2002 through FY2005 and over $200 billion (1.8% to 1.9%) from FY2006 through FY2008.1
Date: July 23, 1998
Creator: Cox, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budget Reconciliation Legislation: Development and Consideration (open access)

Budget Reconciliation Legislation: Development and Consideration

Budget reconciliation is an optional two-step process Congress may use to assure compliance with the direct spending, revenue, and debt-limit levels set forth in budget resolutions.
Date: May 30, 1998
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Line Item Veto Act Unconstitutional: (open access)

Line Item Veto Act Unconstitutional:

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Date: August 18, 1998
Creator: Nicola, Thomas J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (P.L. 105-178): An Overview of Environmental Protection Provisions (open access)

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (P.L. 105-178): An Overview of Environmental Protection Provisions

On June 9, 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA 21, P.L. 105-178). The law authorizes a total of $218 billion for federal highway and mass transit programs from FY1998 to FY2003 and sets aside roughly $12.4 billion for several environmental programs. It authorizes a total of $8.1 billion from FY1998 to FY2003
Date: July 31, 1998
Creator: Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Budget: Social Spending Targets in the FY 1999 House Budget Resolution (open access)

Federal Budget: Social Spending Targets in the FY 1999 House Budget Resolution

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Date: June 11, 1998
Creator: Nuschler, Dawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consideration of the Budget Resolution (open access)

Consideration of the Budget Resolution

Consideration of a concurrent budget resolution is governed by special procedures in the House and Senate. Although the procedures of each chamber differ, they serve generally to expedite consideration of the budget resolution.
Date: May 29, 1998
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Debt-Limit Legislation in the Congressional Budget Process (open access)

Debt-Limit Legislation in the Congressional Budget Process

The gross federal debt consists of the debt held by the public plus the debt held by government accounts. Almost all of the gross federal debt is subject to a public debt limit, as set forth in statute (31 U.S.C. 3101).This report considers legislation needed to change the public debt limit.
Date: May 8, 1998
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Basic Federal Budgeting Terminology (open access)

Basic Federal Budgeting Terminology

In its most elemental form, the federal budget is a comprehensive accounting of the government’s spending, revenues, and borrowing. This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the basic terminology and concepts used in the federal budget process.
Date: April 27, 1998
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Spending Pipeline: Stages of Federal Spending (open access)

The Spending Pipeline: Stages of Federal Spending

Federal government spending involves a multi-step process in which budget authority is enacted and obligated, and outlays are generated. Budget authority is enacted in law; it provides federal agencies the legal basis to incur obligations. Obligations, which reflect such activities as employing personnel, entering into contracts, and submitting purchase orders, establish financial liabilities of the federal government. Outlays are payments that liquidate these obligations. This multi-step process can be illustrated as a spending pipeline
Date: April 23, 1998
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Functional Categories of the Federal Budget (open access)

Functional Categories of the Federal Budget

This report discusses the functional categories, which provide a broad statement of budget priorities and facilitate the analysis of trends in related programs regardless of the type of financial transaction or agency organization.
Date: March 23, 1998
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ISTEA Reauthorization: Highway and Transit Legislative Proposals in the 105th Congress, 2nd Session (open access)

ISTEA Reauthorization: Highway and Transit Legislative Proposals in the 105th Congress, 2nd Session

This report discusses the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), programs which are continuing to operate on the basis of limited interim financing enacted in the closing moments of the 1st Session.
Date: March 6, 1998
Creator: Fischer, John W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY1999: District of Columbia (open access)

Appropriations for FY1999: District of Columbia

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 the District of Columbia.
Date: November 5, 1998
Creator: Noto, Nonna A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budget FY1999: A Chronology with Internet Access (open access)

Budget FY1999: A Chronology with Internet Access

This is a select chronology of, and a finding guide for information on, congressional and presidential actions and documents related to major budget events in calendar year 1998, covering the FY1999 budget. Brief information is provided for the President’s budget, congressional budget resolutions, appropriations measures (regular, continuing, supplementals, and rescissions), budget reconciliation, House and Senate votes, line-item vetoes, publications, testimony, charts, and tables.
Date: July 23, 1998
Creator: Bley, Mary Frances
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: Reauthorization of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (open access)

Drug Control: Reauthorization of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) was scheduled to sunset on September 30, 1997, but Congress approved ONDCP funding under the Treasury, Postal Appropriations Act, FY1998 (P.L. 105-61). Several measures have been introduced in the 105th Congress to reauthorize ONDCP. On October 21, 1997, the House passed H.R. 2610, as amended, the National Narcotics Leadership Act. On November 6, 1997, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported H.R. 2610, replacing the language of the House-passed version with a new version, the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act. On July 29, 1998, the Senate approved an amendment (S. Amdt. 3367/Hatch and Biden) to the Treasury, Postal Appropriations Act, FY1999 (S. 2312/Campbell) that differs from the House-passed version of H.R. 2610.
Date: August 26, 1998
Creator: Teasley, David
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library