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The Senior Executive Service: Overview and Current Issues
None
Date:
April 9, 2003
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A History of Federal Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Taxes
This report details the history of the three federal transfer taxes, tracing their development from their eighteenth century roots to the present.
Date:
April 9, 2003
Creator:
Luckey, John R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Merchandise Trade Data: 1948-2002
None
Date:
April 3, 2003
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Export Tax Benefits and the WTO: Foreign Sales Corporations and the Extraterritorial Replacement Provisions
None
Date:
April 22, 2003
Creator:
Brumbaugh, David L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Central Asia’s Security: Issues and Implications for U.S. Interests
The Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) face common security challenges from crime, corruption, terrorism, and faltering commitments to economic and democratic reforms. This report contains information on Central Asia's external security context, security problems and progress, border tensions, crime and corruption, economic and defense security, implications for U.S. interests, U.S. security assistance, and related issues and figures.
Date:
April 3, 2003
Creator:
Nichol, Jim
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Committee Types and Roles
This report contains information on the general structure of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate committee structure, types of committees, and subcommittees.
Date:
April 1, 2003
Creator:
Carr, Thomas P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
None
Date:
April 30, 2003
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sponsorship and Cosponsorship of Senate Bills
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Date:
April 21, 2003
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Gender Wage Gap and Pay Equity: Is Comparable Worth the Next Step?
This report examines the trend in the male-female wage gap and the explanations offered for its existence. Remedies proposed for the gender wage gap's amelioration are addressed, with an in-depth focus on the comparable worth approach to achieving "pay equity" or "fair pay" between women and men.
Date:
April 21, 2003
Creator:
Levine, Linda
System:
The UNT Digital Library
War on Drugs: The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
This report summarizes the Authorization of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, a multi-media federal program to persuade America's youth not to use drugs, expired at the end of FY2002. The 108th Congress is expected to consider the reauthorization of the campaign as part of the reauthorization of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). The campaign's effectiveness has been questioned, and the program has engendered its share of controversy.
Date:
April 10, 2003
Creator:
Eddy, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preparation for Senate Committee Markup
This report outlines a Markup, which is the legislative stage during which a committee chooses the language of a measure it expects to report to the Senate. Markups are carefully planned in advance to insure that the requirements of Senate rules have been met, political decisions have been made, and administrative issues have been addressed.
Date:
April 22, 2003
Creator:
Carr, Thomas P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Violence Against Women Office: Background and Current Issues
This report discusses issues regarding the Violence Against Women Office (VAWO), which was created in 1995 to address legal and policy issues concerning violence against women.
Date:
April 2, 2003
Creator:
Laney, Garrine P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Statutes: An Overview of Legislation in the 107th Congress
This report examines legislation in the 107th Congress pertaining to federal mandatory minimum sentencing statutes (mandatory minimums), which demand that execution or incarceration follow criminal conviction. They cover drug dealing and using a gun to commit a federal crime, among other crimes.
Date:
April 17, 2003
Creator:
Doyle, Charles
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Russia’s Chechnya Conflict: Developments in 2002-2003
None
Date:
April 16, 2003
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Taiwan: Major U.S. Arms Sales Since 1990
This report discusses U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, or Republic of China (ROC), including policy issues for Congress and legislation. The Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), P.L. 96-8, has governed U.S. arms sales to Taiwan since 1979, when the United States recognized the People’s Republic of China (PRC) instead of the ROC. There are two other relevant elements of the “one China” policy: the August 17, 1982 U.S.-PRC Joint Communique and the “Six Assurances” made to Taiwan.
Date:
April 18, 2003
Creator:
Kan, Shirley A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Markup in Senate Committee: Considering Amendments
None
Date:
April 29, 2003
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Senate Committee Reports: Required Contents
None
Date:
April 28, 2003
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Largest Spending Programs in the Federal Budget: FY2002 Outlays Over $10 Billion
None
Date:
April 30, 2003
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Colleges and Universities Attended by Senators of the 108th Congress
This report identifies the colleges and universities attended by Senators serving in the 108th Congress.
Date:
April 30, 2003
Creator:
Amer, Mildred L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Introducing a Senate Bill or Resolution
None
Date:
April 21, 2003
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Alcohol Beverages: Labeling and Health Claims
This report concerns rules created in 2003 by the Alcohol and Tobacco and Trade Bureau that prohibits manufacturers from advertising substantive health benefits from alcoholic beverages. Moreover, the report covers the history and debate on this issue and of the Bureau.
Date:
April 10, 2003
Creator:
Porter, Donna V.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
House of Representatives Information Technology Management Issues: An Overview of the Effects on Institutional Operations, the Legislative Process, and Future Planning
This report is an Overview of the effects on Institutional operations, the Legislative process, and future Planning related to House of Representatives Information Technology Management issues.
Date:
April 2, 2003
Creator:
Seifert, Jeffrey W. & Petersen, Jeffrey L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Services Block Grant (Title XX of the Social Security Act)
The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is a flexible source of funds that states may use to support a wide variety of social services activities. States have broad discretion over the use of these funds. This short report provides background information on the SSBG and tracks relevant legislation and appropriations measures.
Date:
April 28, 2003
Creator:
Gish, Melinda
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Amending Process in the House of Representatives
This report summarizes many of the procedures and practices affecting the amending process on the floor of the House of Representatives. The process gives Members an opportunity to change the provisions of the bills and resolutions on which they are going to vote; it can be among the most complex as well as the most important stages of legislative consideration.
Date:
April 16, 2003
Creator:
Davis, Christopher M. & Bach, Stanley
System:
The UNT Digital Library