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Major Financial Services Legislation, The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (P.L. 106-102): An Overview
None
Date:
December 16, 1999
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Election of the President and Vice President by Congress: Contingent Election
The 12th Amendment to the Constitution requires that candidates for President and Vice President receive a majority of electoral votes (currently 270 or more of a total of 538) to be elected. If no candidate receives a majority, the President is elected by the House of Representatives, and the Vice President is elected by the Senate. This process is referred to as contingent election and is the topic of discussion in this report.
Date:
August 16, 1999
Creator:
Neale, Thomas H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Endowment for Democracy: Policy and Funding Issues
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Date:
August 16, 1999
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Unemployment Rate and the Potential Supply of Labor
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Date:
August 16, 1999
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Designation of Critical Habitat under the Endangered Species Act
On June 14th, 1999, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) called for public comment on its current procedures for designating critical habitat. In addition, a proposal is before the Senate (S.1100) to move the time at which critical habitat must be designated for a species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) from being (basically) concurrent with the listing of the species to the time a recovery plan is finalized for that species. This report is written as background for considering the current legislative proposal and the FWS notice and may be updated as circumstances warrant.
Date:
July 16, 1999
Creator:
Baldwin, Pamela
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Science, Technology, and Medicine: Issues Facing the 106th Congress, First Session
Science, technology, and medicine is playing an integral part in many of the policy issues that are coming before this Congress. Legislative action in certain areas directly affects the progress of science, technology, and medicine (STM). And advances in those areas can significantly affect broader public policy issues. This issue brief provides an overview of several of those issues and identifies CRS reports that treat them in more depth.
Date:
July 16, 1999
Creator:
Rowberg, Richard E
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change: Coal Use in China and Other Asian Developing Countries
Report discussing factors behind China's planned reliance on coal for future energy growth, including background information, factors in Asian coal use trends, Asian and world energy demands, the Asian coal and world markets, CO2 emissions trends, projected energy supply and emissions from other sources, and general conclusions regarding the issues.
Date:
June 16, 1999
Creator:
Humphries, Marc
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interstate Waste Transport: Legislative Issues
This report discusses ten issues raised by proposed legislation to allow controls on interstate commerce in solid waste. Such legislation has been considered in every Congress since 1990.
Date:
June 16, 1999
Creator:
McCarthy, James E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Park System: Establishing New Units
None
Date:
April 16, 1999
Creator:
Hardy-Vincent, Carol
System:
The UNT Digital Library
State Regulation of the Initiative Process: Background and Analysis of Issues in Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc., et al.
None
Date:
February 16, 1999
Creator:
Halstead, T.J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
TEMPORARY WORKERS AS MEMBERS OF THE CONTINGENT LABOR FORCE
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Date:
February 16, 1999
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library