Enforceability of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements: Wright v. Universal Maritime Service Corp. (open access)

Enforceability of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements: Wright v. Universal Maritime Service Corp.

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Date: January 12, 2001
Creator: Shimabukuru, Jon O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal and State Initiatives to Integrate Acute and Long-Term Care: Issues & Profiles (open access)

Federal and State Initiatives to Integrate Acute and Long-Term Care: Issues & Profiles

This report discusses the efforts of the federal and state initiatives to integrate acute and long-term care, with a n eye toward providing Congress with the necessary information with which to consider future action in the area.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Miller, Edward Alan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee System Rules Changes in the House, 107th Congress (open access)

Committee System Rules Changes in the House, 107th Congress

This fact sheet details changes in the committee system contained in H. Res. 5, the rules of the House for the 107th Congress, adopted by the House January 3, 2001. This contains information on changes in the committee structure, committee procedure, and committee staff.
Date: January 5, 2001
Creator: Schneider, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Housing Issues in the 106th Congress (open access)

Housing Issues in the 106th Congress

This report summarizes current housing issues, cites legislative proposals, and in some cases, presents brief pro/con discussions.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Bourdon, E. Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motions to Recommit in the House (open access)

Motions to Recommit in the House

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Date: January 25, 2001
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Rules Changes Affecting Floor Proceedings in the 107th Congress (open access)

House Rules Changes Affecting Floor Proceedings in the 107th Congress

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Date: January 17, 2001
Creator: Bach, Stanley
System: The UNT Digital Library
The First Year: Assessments of Cooperation Between Newly Elected Presidents and Congress (open access)

The First Year: Assessments of Cooperation Between Newly Elected Presidents and Congress

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Date: January 30, 2001
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.; Kaiser, Frederick M. & Stathis, Stephen W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ergonomics in the Workplace: Is it Time for An OSHA Standard? (open access)

Ergonomics in the Workplace: Is it Time for An OSHA Standard?

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Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Rappaport, Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Victims’ Rights Amendment in the 106th Congress: Overview of Suggestions to Amend the Constitution (open access)

Victims’ Rights Amendment in the 106th Congress: Overview of Suggestions to Amend the Constitution

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Date: January 12, 2001
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Connecting Fathers to Their Children: Fatherhood Legislation Considered in the 106th Congress (open access)

Connecting Fathers to Their Children: Fatherhood Legislation Considered in the 106th Congress

This report addresses Fatherhood Legislation considered in the 106th Congress connecting Fathers to their Children regarding connecting fathers to their children.
Date: January 29, 2001
Creator: Solomon-Fears, Carmen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Amending Process in the House of Representatives (open access)

The Amending Process in the House of Representatives

This report consists of the amending process in the house of representatives.
Date: January 30, 2001
Creator: Bach, Stanley
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Assistance (open access)

The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Assistance

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Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Tarnoff, Curt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Oversight (open access)

Congressional Oversight

This report provides information about the Congressional Oversight of implementation and administration has occurred through out the history of United States government under the constitution.
Date: January 2, 2001
Creator: Kaiser, Frederick M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
New U.S. Dollar Coin (open access)

New U.S. Dollar Coin

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Date: January 5, 2001
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Argentina: Political and Economic Conditions and Relations with the United States in 2000 (open access)

Argentina: Political and Economic Conditions and Relations with the United States in 2000

This report covers Argentina's political and economic conditions and relations with the United States in 2000.
Date: January 12, 2001
Creator: Villarreal, M. Angeles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electronic Transfer Accounts (open access)

Electronic Transfer Accounts

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Date: January 5, 2001
Creator: Smale, Pauline H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2001: Defense (open access)

Appropriations for FY2001: Defense

This report is a guide to one of the thirteen regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date: January 12, 2001
Creator: Daggett, Stephen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence and Law Enforcement: Countering Transnational Threats to the U.S. (open access)

Intelligence and Law Enforcement: Countering Transnational Threats to the U.S.

This report looks at the separate roles and missions and distinct identities of intelligence and law enforcement agencies. This report also addresses congressional oversight of the law enforcement intelligence relationship that is spread among a number of House and Senate committees, each of which has only partial jurisdiction.
Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Apportionment 2000: States Gaining, Losing, and on the Margin1 (open access)

House Apportionment 2000: States Gaining, Losing, and on the Margin1

This report provides figures regarding the population of the 50 states in 2000, which is 281,424,177, a figure 13.4% greater than in 1990.
Date: January 9, 2001
Creator: Crocker, Royce
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cloture: Its Effects on Senate Floor Proceedings (open access)

Cloture: Its Effects on Senate Floor Proceedings

This report is on Cloture: Its Effects on Senate Floor Proceedings.
Date: January 24, 2001
Creator: Bach, Stanley
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Research in Congressional Offices: A Primer (open access)

Legislative Research in Congressional Offices: A Primer

This report discusses the process of conducting legislative research: deciding the scope, collecting the information and evaluating sources. Members of Congress need many kinds of information and analysis to support their legislative, oversight, and representational work, including both quick facts, or information to improve their understanding of a complex set of issues.
Date: January 9, 2001
Creator: Wellborn, Clay H. & Kolakowski, Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Statutes: An Overview of Legislation in the 106th Congress (open access)

Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Statutes: An Overview of Legislation in the 106th Congress

This report discusses federal mandatory minimum sentencing statutes, which demand that execution or incarceration follow criminal conviction. They cover drug dealing, murdering federal officials, and using a gun to commit a federal crime. They circumscribe judicial sentencing discretion. They have been criticized as unthinkingly harsh and incompatible with a rational sentencing guideline system; yet they have also been embraced as hallmarks of truth in sentence and a certain means of incapacitating the criminally dangerous.
Date: January 11, 2001
Creator: Doyle, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
DNA Identification: Applications and Issues (open access)

DNA Identification: Applications and Issues

This report provides an overview of how the genetic information contained in DNA is used for identification, and a discussion of issues associated with those uses.
Date: January 12, 2001
Creator: Fischer, Eric A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Floor Procedure: A Summary (open access)

Senate Floor Procedure: A Summary

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Date: January 12, 2001
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library