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The FDA Medical Device User Fee Program
None
Date:
June 25, 2012
Creator:
Johnson, Judith A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA): A Summary of the Act and Its Major Requirements
None
Date:
October 25, 2012
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Honduran-U.S. Relations
This report examines current political and economic conditions in Honduras as well as issues in Honduran-U.S. relations.
Date:
July 25, 2012
Creator:
Meyer, Peter J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: Issues for the 112th Congress
Cuba remains a one-party communist state with a poor record on human rights. The country's political succession in 2006 from the long-ruling Fidel Castro to his brother Raul was characterized by a remarkable degree of stability. This report contains information on U.S. policy as related to Cuba, legislative action, and more related information.
Date:
July 25, 2012
Creator:
Sullivan, Mark P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Senkaku (Diaoyu/Diaoyutai) Islands Dispute: U.S. Treaty Obligations
None
Date:
September 25, 2012
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Laws Relating to Cybersecurity: Discussion of Proposed Revisions
This report discusses that framework and proposals to amend more than 30 acts of Congress that are part of or relevant to it.
Date:
July 25, 2012
Creator:
Fischer, Eric A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: The Trust Fund
None
Date:
April 25, 2012
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FDA Regulation of Medical Devices
This report provides a description of FDA's medical device review process divided into two parts: pre market requirements and post market requirements. Appendix A provides a brief history of laws governing medical device regulation and Appendix B provides a table of acronyms used in the report.
Date:
June 25, 2012
Creator:
Johnson, Judith A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory
This report discusses how the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory gathers funding for future endeavors.
Date:
January 25, 2012
Creator:
Matthews, Christine M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
PILT (Payments in Lieu of Taxes): Somewhat Simplified
None
Date:
July 25, 2012
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and Defined Benefit Pension Plan Funding Issues
None
Date:
June 25, 2012
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FDA’s Authority to Ensure That Drugs Prescribed to Children Are Safe and Effective
The report describes why research on a drug's pharmacokinetics, safety, and effectiveness in children might be necessary. This report then presents why the marketplace has not provided sufficient incentives to manufacturers of drugs approved for adult use to study their effects in children. It also analyzes the impact of BPCA and PREA have had on pediatric drug research.
Date:
June 25, 2012
Creator:
Thaul, Susan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Moving to a Territorial Income Tax: Options and Challenges
None
Date:
July 25, 2012
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Flood Insurance Program: Background, Challenges, and Financial Status
None
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The EPA Draft Report of Groundwater Contamination Near Pavillion, Wyoming: Main Findings and Stakeholder Responses
None
Date:
January 25, 2012
Creator:
Folger, Peter; Tiemann, Mary & Bearden, David M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
How FDA Approves Drugs and Regulates Their Safety and Effectiveness
This report is a primer on drug approval and regulation: it describes how drugs are approved and come to the market, including FDA's role in that process and FDA and industry roles once drugs are on the pharmacy shelves.
Date:
June 25, 2012
Creator:
Thaul, Susan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Addressing Medicare Hospital Readmissions
This report highlights the issue of one-fifth of medicare patients in 2005 being readmitted to a hospital within thirty days time. These readmissions put a strain on the budget, the majority of which it is estimated may be avoidable. The report notes that Medicare as a program is working on moving around those difficulties, without reducing the quality of care.
Date:
May 25, 2012
Creator:
Tilson, Sibyl
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Administration (SSA): Budget Issues
This report provides an overview of the SSA's mandatory spending but largely focuses on discretionary appropriations for the agency's administrative expenses. The size of the annual appropriations for administrative expenses affects the agency's ability to effectively administer the SSA's benefit programs as well as conduct program integrity activities designed to ensure that only eligible persons receive federal benefits.
Date:
January 25, 2012
Creator:
Szymendera, Scott
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress
Report that discusses the funding for the growth of the Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) program. The Aegis BMD program, which is carried out by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Navy, gives Navy Aegis cruisers and destroyers a capability for conducting BMD operations.
Date:
October 25, 2012
Creator:
O'Rourke, Ronald
System:
The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Chairs: Considerations, Decisions, and Actions as One Congress Ends and a New Congress Begins
Report that addresses some of the critical matters a House committee chair confronts from the time of the early organization meetings in November to approximately the spring district work-period in March or April.
Date:
October 25, 2012
Creator:
Schneider, Judy & Koempel, Michael L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey of Legal Issues Past, Present, and Future
Report that surveys existing law for legal issues that have arisen, or may arise in the future, on account of climate change and government responses thereto.
Date:
October 25, 2012
Creator:
Meltz, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Constitutionality of Retroactive Tax Legislation
Report that examines the constitutional provisions that might be implicated by retroactive tax legislation, including legislation that seems intended to punish past behavior.
Date:
October 25, 2012
Creator:
Lunder, Erika K.; Meltz, Robert & Thomas, Kenneth R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guam: U.S. Defense Deployments
Report that provides a basic overview of the island of Guam, including population and location, as well as the strategic significance of Guam for boosting U.S. deterrence and power projection in Asia.
Date:
October 25, 2012
Creator:
Kan, Shirley A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Proliferation Control Regimes: Background and Status
Report that discusses the nuclear nonproliferation regime that encompasses several treaties, extensive multilateral and bilateral diplomatic agreements, multilateral organizations and domestic agencies, and the domestic laws of participating countries. The chemical and biological weapons (CBW) nonproliferation regimes contain three elements: the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), and the Australia Group.
Date:
October 25, 2012
Creator:
Nikitin, Mary Beth; Kerr, Paul K. & Hildreth, Steven A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library