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Patents on Tax Strategies: Issues in Intellectual Property and Innovation
None
Date:
January 6, 2010
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Antibiotic Use in Agriculture: Background and Legislation
This report deals with Antibiotic Use in Agriculture: Background and Legislation.
Date:
January 7, 2010
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Biochar: Examination of an Emerging Concept to Mitigate Climate Change
This report briefly describes biochar, its potential advantages and disadvantages, legislative support, and research and development activities underway in the united states and abroad.
Date:
January 22, 2010
Creator:
Bracmort, Kelsi
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Economic Recovery and Jobs: CRS Experts
None
Date:
January 25, 2010
Creator:
Gravelle, Jane G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Overview of Proposals to Establish an Independent Commission or Board in Medicare
None
Date:
January 26, 2010
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Services Block Grant (Title XX of the Social Security Act)
None
Date:
January 26, 2010
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chinese Tire Imports: Section 421 Safeguards and the World Trade Organization (WTO)
This report discusses GATT Article XIX and the WTO Agreement on Safeguards, Paragraph 16 of China's WTO Accession Protocol, Section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 421 Investigation.
Date:
January 5, 2010
Creator:
Grimmett, Jeanne J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federalism Issues in Surface Transportation Policy: Past and Present
This report provides a historical perspective on contemporary federalism issues in surface transportation policy that are likely to be addressed by Congress during the 111th Congress, including possible devolution of programmatic responsibility to states and proposals to change state maintenance-of-effort requirements and state cost matching requirements.
Date:
January 5, 2010
Creator:
Dilger, Robert J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hate Crime Legislation
This report provides an overview of the hate crime debate, with background on current law and hate crime statistics, and a legislative history of hate crime prevention bills in recent Congresses. This report does not analyze the constitutional or other legal issues that often arise as part of the hate crime debate.
Date:
January 15, 2010
Creator:
Krouse, William J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Currency Manipulation: The IMF and WTO
This report describes how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO) deal with the issue of currency manipulation. It also discusses apparent discrepancies in their charters and ways those differences might be addressed.
Date:
January 26, 2010
Creator:
Sanford, Jonathan E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Communications: The Future of 911
This report discusses possible paths toward the modernization of the 911 infrastructure. Efforts to splice newer, digital technologies onto the aging infrastructure have created points of failure where a call can be dropped or misdirected, sometimes with tragic consequences.
Date:
January 26, 2010
Creator:
Moore, Linda K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces: Facts and Issues
This report provides an overview of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) task forces that has been designated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide specialized assistance after buildings or other structures collapse.
Date:
January 29, 2010
Creator:
Bea, Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Other Transaction (OT) Authority
This report discusses other transactions (OTs) which are special vehicles used by federal agencies for obtaining or advancing research and development (R&D) or prototypes. An OT is not a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement, and there is no statutory or regulatory definition of "other transaction." Only those agencies that have been provided OT authority may engage in other transactions.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Halchin, L. Elaine
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants
This report discusses whether the balance should tip more toward humanitarian immigration policies as a consequence of the humanitarian crises that resulted from the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Date:
January 15, 2010
Creator:
Wasem, Ruth Ellen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
WTO Dispute Settlement: Status of U.S. Compliance in Pending Cases
This report provides a summary of the status of U.S. compliance efforts in pending World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes that have resulted in adverse rulings against the United States. The report contains an overview of WTO dispute settlement procedures, a discussion of U.S. laws relating to WTO dispute proceedings, and a list of pending WTO disputes compliance phase, with a discussion of major issues and the U.S. compliance history in each.
Date:
January 29, 2010
Creator:
Grimmett, Jeanne J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Organized Crime in the United States: Trends and Issues for Congress
This report provides a background on organized crime in the United States as well as the tools that Congress has afforded for the federal government to combat it.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Finklea, Kristin M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Economic Downturns and Crime
This report examines the relationships between selected variables of economic strength and crime. It begins with an overview of crime rates during times of economic recession in the United States. It then reviews the existing literature in the field analyzing various data sets that examine whether the unemployment rate and foreclosures can be related to increases in the national crime rate.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Finklea, Kristin M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector
This report presents an overview of the large and diverse sector of water infrastructure systems, describes security-related actions by the government and private sector since September 11, 2001, and discusses additional policy issues and responses, including congressional interest.
Date:
January 6, 2010
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Berry Amendment: Requiring Defense Procurement to Come from Domestic Sources
This report examines the original intent and purpose of the Berry Amendment and legislative proposals to amend the application of domestic source restrictions, as well as options for Congress.
Date:
January 29, 2010
Creator:
Grasso, Valerie Bailey
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Border Security: Key Agencies and Their Missions
This report briefly describes the role of various agencies in securing the borders of the United States. These agencies are the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the United States Coast Guard, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Date:
January 26, 2010
Creator:
Haddal, Chad C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Protection of Classified Information by Congress: Practices and Proposals
This report discusses safeguards in place to protect controlled information and proposals for change of some of the mechanisms in place. Congress uses classified national security and other controlled information to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities, particularly overseeing the executive, appropriating funds, and legislating public policy.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Kaiser, Frederick M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Disaster Relief Funding and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
This report describes the various components of the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including (1) what authorities have shaped it over the years; (2) how FEMA determines the amount of the appropriation requested to Congress (pertaining to the DRF); and (3) how emergency supplemental appropriations are requested. In addition to the DRF, information is provided on funds appropriated in supplemental appropriations legislation to agencies other than the Department of Homeland Security. Aspects of debate concerning how disaster relief is budgeted are also highlighted and examined, and alternative budgetary options are summarized.
Date:
January 26, 2010
Creator:
Lindsay, Bruce R. & Murray, Justin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The U.S. Postal Service's Financial Condition: Overview and Issues for Congress
This report provides an overview of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS's) financial condition, recent legislation to alleviate the USPS's financial challenges, and possible issues for the 111th Congress.
Date:
January 19, 2010
Creator:
Kosar, Kevin R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization: An Overview of Legislative Action in the 111th Congress
This report tracks the status of ongoing legislative action and debate related to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization. It is organized into six major program areas: aviation system finance; airport financing; FAA management and organizational issues; system capacity and safety; environmental issues; and airline industry issues. In several cases, provisions that appear in various unrelated sections of proposed legislation have been rearranged in this report in an effort to group and discuss related items in an issue-driven or programmatic context. Since this report is primarily written as a means of communicating key legislative provisions under consideration in the ongoing FAA reauthorization process, it does not go into detail regarding the specific policy issues behind these legislative proposals.
Date:
January 7, 2010
Creator:
Elias, Bart
System:
The UNT Digital Library