AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): Problems, Responses, and Issues for Congress (open access)

AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): Problems, Responses, and Issues for Congress

This report discusses the issue of children that have been left as orphans due to AIDS taking their parents lives. Moreover, the report details that between 2001 and 2003 the number of children orphaned from AIDS increased by 3.5 million. The rate of orphaned children is only expected to increase in the future if massive spending is not issued to curb the problem.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Salaam, Tiaji
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anti-Hoax Legislation in the 107th Congress: Addressing Problems since September 2001 (open access)

Anti-Hoax Legislation in the 107th Congress: Addressing Problems since September 2001

This report is on Anti-Hoax Legislation in the 107th Congress: Addressing Problems since September 2001.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Wallance, Paul, Starett, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2004: Transportation, Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, General Government, and Related Agencies (open access)

Appropriations for FY2004: Transportation, Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, General Government, and Related Agencies

This report provides appropriations of Transportation, Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, General Government, and Related Agencies for FY2004
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Peterman, David Randall & Frittelli, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
Awards of Attorneys’ Fees by Federal Courts and Federal Agencies (open access)

Awards of Attorneys’ Fees by Federal Courts and Federal Agencies

This report discusses the concept of prevailing party, the equal access to justice act, Awards of Attorneys' fees in Civil Right Cases and Awards of attorneys' fees in Tax cases.
Date: March 1, 2007
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baseline Budget Projections: A Discussion of Issues (open access)

Baseline Budget Projections: A Discussion of Issues

Between January 2001 and January 2005, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reduced its 10-year baseline projection for the period 2002-2011 from a peak surplus of $5.6 trillion to a deficit of $2.6 trillion for three reasons. First, about one third of the reduction is due to technical revisions CBO made to its projections (e.g., to account for the smaller than predicted growth in tax revenues). Second, the recession both reduced revenues and raised outlays automatically. This factor accounts for less than one-tenth of the 10-year decline, and is only significant in 2002 and 2003. Finally, about 60% of the reduction was due to policy changes, the largest of which was tax cuts, and the second largest of which was increased military outlays. Even without a recession or technical revisions, policy changes alone would have pushed the budget into deficit from 2003 to 2005.
Date: March 1, 2005
Creator: Labonte, Marc
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or “Mad Cow Disease”): Current and Proposed Safeguards (open access)

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or “Mad Cow Disease”): Current and Proposed Safeguards

This report provides the Current and Proposed Safeguards of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or “Mad Cow Disease”).
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Lister, Sarah A. & Becker, Geoffrey S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
China’s Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Current Policy Issues (open access)

China’s Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Current Policy Issues

This report contains an overview of the current policy issues on China's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missiles.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Official Mail Costs (open access)

Congressional Official Mail Costs

This report discusses the franking privilege , which allows Members of Congress to send official mail at government expense, such as letters commenting on legislation and casework, press releases, government reports, town meeting notices, and newsletters.
Date: March 1, 2005
Creator: Pontius, John S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Debt and Development in Poor Countries:Rethinking Policy Responses (open access)

Debt and Development in Poor Countries:Rethinking Policy Responses

This report discusses how debts fits into the broader development picture including, defining the circumstances that lead to heavy indebtedness, drawing specific lessons from the Latin American and African cases, and evaluating the success and failure of earlier debt policy responses.
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: Hornbeck, J. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches (open access)

Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches

Over the past decade, worldwide production of illicit drugs has risen dramatically: opium and marijuana production has roughly doubled and coca production tripled. Street prices of cocaine and heroin have fallen significantly in the past 20 years, reflecting increased availability. Despite apparent national political resolve to deal with the drug problem, inherent contradictions regularly appear between U.S. anti-drug policy and other national policy goals and concerns. The mix of competing domestic and international pressures and priorities has produced an ongoing series of disputes within and between the legislative and executive branches concerning U.S. international drug policy. One contentious issue has been the Congressionally-mandated certification process, an instrument designed to induce specified drug-exporting countries to prioritize or pay more attention to the fight against narcotics businesses.
Date: March 1, 2005
Creator: Perl, Raphael F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
European Union's Arms Control Regime and Arms Exports to China: Background and Legal Analysis (open access)

European Union's Arms Control Regime and Arms Exports to China: Background and Legal Analysis

This report provides detailed background and legal analysis of the nature of the current European Union embargo on arms exports to China. It also provides detailed background on the European Union’s current Code of Conduct on Arms Exports. A strengthened version of the Code would be one of the control mechanisms that would remain should the EU lift the embargo on arms exports to China. This report also gives information on recent EU arms exports authorized for China. It further summarizes U.S. concerns regarding the lifting of the arms embargo, and notes the prospective timing of EU action on the embargo issue.
Date: March 1, 2005
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F. & Papademetriou, Theresa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm Commodity Programs: Direct Payments, Counter-Cyclical Payments, and Marketing Loans (open access)

Farm Commodity Programs: Direct Payments, Counter-Cyclical Payments, and Marketing Loans

This report describes the payments for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, oilseeds, peanuts, wool, mohair, honey, and certain other small grains.
Date: March 1, 2006
Creator: Monke, Jim
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Government Debt: Its Size and Economic Significance (open access)

The Federal Government Debt: Its Size and Economic Significance

This report explains the different measures of the U.S. government debt, discusses the historical growth in the debt, identifies the owners of the debt,presents comparisons with the public debt in other countries and examines the potential economic risks associated with a growing federal debt.
Date: March 1, 2005
Creator: Cashell, Brian W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for Medicaid (open access)

Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for Medicaid

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Date: March 1, 2005
Creator: Scott, Christine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Countries’ Response to the Avian Influenza (H5N1) Virus: Current Status (open access)

Foreign Countries’ Response to the Avian Influenza (H5N1) Virus: Current Status

This report highlights efforts by affected countries to control the spread of the avian influenza (H5N1) virus. Included is statistical information on confirmed human cases and deaths through February 27, 2007.
Date: March 1, 2007
Creator: Chanlett-Avery, Emma; Chesser, Susan; Coipuram, Thomas, Jr.; Fischer, Hannah; Hassan, Hussein; Klarman, Kim et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2006 Appropriations for State and Local Homeland Security (open access)

FY2006 Appropriations for State and Local Homeland Security

This report provides information about the FY2006 Appropriations for the Department of Transportation which is funded through the annual appropriation act. The committee recomo\monded ore funding than the house approved for highway programs and Amtrak.
Date: March 1, 2005
Creator: Reese, Shawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inflation: Causes, Costs, and Current Status (open access)

Inflation: Causes, Costs, and Current Status

This report gives an overview of the causes, costs, and current status of Inflation.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Makinen, Gail
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: United Nations and Humanitarian Aid Organizations (open access)

Iraq: United Nations and Humanitarian Aid Organizations

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Date: March 1, 2003
Creator: Coipuram, Thomas, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Item Veto and Expanded Impoundment Proposals (open access)

Item Veto and Expanded Impoundment Proposals

This report discusses President's authority to call for an item veto, or possibly expanded impoundment authority, consideration of impoundment reform, to provide him with greater control over federal spending.
Date: March 1, 2001
Creator: McMurtry, Virginia A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Junk E-mail”: An Overview of Issues and Legislation Concerning Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail (“Spam”) (open access)

“Junk E-mail”: An Overview of Issues and Legislation Concerning Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail (“Spam”)

This report discusses unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), also called “spam” or “junk e-mail.” Not only can it be a nuisance, but its cost may be passed on to consumers through higher charges from Internet service providers who must upgrade their systems to handle the traffic.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land and Water Conservation Fund: Current Status and Issues (open access)

Land and Water Conservation Fund: Current Status and Issues

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Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-Term Economic Growth and Budget Projections (open access)

Long-Term Economic Growth and Budget Projections

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Date: March 1, 2006
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Marine Protected Areas: An Overview, March 1, 2007] (open access)

[Marine Protected Areas: An Overview, March 1, 2007]

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Date: March 1, 2007
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A. & Buck, Eugene H.
System: The UNT Digital Library