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Spain: Current Issues and U.S. Policy
This report provides information on Spain’s current political and economic situation, its struggle against Islamist terrorism, and its relations with the United States.
Date:
March 1, 2007
Creator:
Woehrel, Steven
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ballast Water Management to Combat Invasive Species
The arrival of zebra mussels in the Great Lakes and their subsequent damage to city water supplies and electric utilities has focused significant attention on ballast water discharge by cargo ships as a high-risk mechanism for species invasion. New management efforts attempt to address this concern. Congress is considering legislative proposals to amend and reauthorize the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act, including specific provisions that would modify how ballast water is managed. This report provides background on various approaches to ballast water management and reviews current ballast water management laws and programs.
Date:
October 1, 2007
Creator:
Buck, Eugene H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Net Neutrality: Background and Issues
This report discusses the continued debate amongst congressional policymakers regarding telecommunications reform. A major point of the ongoing discussion is whether action is needed to ensure unfettered access to the Internet.
Date:
August 1, 2007
Creator:
Gilroy, Angele A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tsunamis: Monitoring, Detection, and Early Warning Systems
This report discusses proposals for international tsunami early warning systems and examines U.S. policy regarding tsunamis.
Date:
June 1, 2005
Creator:
Morrissey, Wayne A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dominican Republic: Political and Economic Conditions and Relations with the United States
This report discusses the political and economic conditions in Dominican Republic and its relations with United States.
Date:
April 1, 2008
Creator:
Rush, Rebecca G. & Ribando Seelke, Clare
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mountaintop Mining: Background on Current Controversies
Mountaintop removal mining involves removing the top of a mountain in order to recover the coal seams contained there. This practice occurs in several Appalachian states. It creates an immense quantity of excess spoil (dirt and rock that previously composed the mountaintop), which is typically placed in valley fills on the sides of the former mountains, burying streams that flow through the valleys. Critics say that, as a result of valley fills, stream water quality and the aquatic and wildlife habitat that streams support are destroyed by tons of rocks and dirt. The mining industry argues that mountaintop mining is essential to conducting surface coal mining in the Appalachian region and that surface coal mining would not be economic or feasible there if producers were restricted from using valleys for the disposal of mining overburden. Mountaintop mining is regulated under several laws, including the Clean Water Act. This report provides background on current controversies, regulatory requirements, and legal challenges to Clean Water Act regulation of mountaintop mining. Congressional attention to these issues also is discussed.
Date:
February 1, 2005
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Spectrum Management: Auctions
This report discusses the radio frequency spectrum that is used for all forms of wireless communications, including cellular telephony, paging, personal communications service, radio and television broadcast, telephone radio relay, aeronautical and maritime radio navigation, and satellite command and control. The issues discussed here refer principally to spectrum management for terrestrial technologies.
Date:
May 1, 2008
Creator:
Moore, Linda K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
What Is the “Farm Bill”?
This report discusses the farm bill, which renewed about every five years, governs federal farm and food policy.
Date:
April 1, 2008
Creator:
Johnson, Renée
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Job Loss: Causes and Policy Implications
Job loss is one of the most important macroeconomic problems facing policymakers, both in terms of its economic and social cost. This report discusses factors that cause job loss and the policy implications.
Date:
August 1, 2008
Creator:
Labonte, Marc
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Structure of Social Security Individual Account Contributions and Investments: Choices and Implications
Policymakers have debated creating a system of individual accounts (IAs) as part of Social Security for many years. This report describes policymakers’ administrative and structural choices regarding the collection and investment of assets in a system of individual accounts.
Date:
May 1, 2006
Creator:
Whitman, Debra B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, H.R. 1036 and S. 659, 108th Congress: Legal Analysis
This report examines H.R. 1036, 108th Congress, as ordered to be reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on April 3, 2003, and passed by the House without amendment on April 9, 2003. H.R. 1036, titled the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act,” would prohibit lawsuits, except in specified circumstances, against a manufacturer or seller of a firearm or ammunition, or a trade association, for damages resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of a firearm or ammunition.
Date:
March 1, 2004
Creator:
Cohen, Henry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Radioactive Tank Wastes: Disposal Authority in the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for FY2005
None
Date:
December 1, 2004
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S.- Thailand Free Trade Agreement Negotiations
This report examines Thailand’s economy and trade orientation, the scope and significance of the U.S.-Thai commercial relationship, and the likely top issues in the negotiations. The report concludes with a short summary of the Congressional role and interest in the FTA.
Date:
September 1, 2004
Creator:
Ahearn, Raymond J. & Morrison, Wayne M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Protection for Fashion Design: A Legal Analysis of the Design Piracy Prohibition Act (H.R. 2196)
Fashion design does not currently receive explicit protection under U.S. copyright law. This report analyzes the amendments that the Design Piracy Prohibition Act would make to the Copyright Act to provide for fashion design protection. It also summarizes arguments both in favor of and against extending such protection.
Date:
June 1, 2009
Creator:
Yeh, Brian T.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Identity Theft Laws: State Penalties and Remedies and Pending Federal Bills
This report provides an overview of state laws on identity theft. It discusses state laws that penalize identity theft, as well as state laws that assist identity theft victims, including those that permit consumers to block unauthorized persons from obtaining their credit information, known as “security freezes.” The report also includes a survey of state “credit freeze” statutes. The report concludes with summaries of federal identity theft legislation pending in the 110th Congress.
Date:
June 1, 2007
Creator:
Rainson, Tara A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Brazil’s and Canada’s WTO Cases Against U.S. Agricultural Support
None
Date:
February 1, 2008
Creator:
Schnepf, Randy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy
This report provides information about the Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy on China-U.S. Relations. China has been steadily signing trade agreements,oil and gas contracts.
Date:
October 1, 2007
Creator:
Dumbaugh, Kerry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Telecommunications Discounts for Schools and Libraries: The “E-Rate” Program and Controversies
None
Date:
May 1, 2004
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lebanon
This report includes information regarding the relationship between the United States and Lebanon, as well as Lebanon's demographic and politics, and recent or current foreign presence in Lebanon
Date:
November 1, 2005
Creator:
Prados, Alfred B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Credit: Institutions and Issues
This report discusses federal credit assistance for farmers and recent issues in Congress related to the programs.
Date:
October 1, 2008
Creator:
Monke, Jim
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Navy DDG-1000 Destroyer Program: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress
None
Date:
May 1, 2008
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements
This report contains a catalog of treaties and agreements of the arms control and nonproliferation.
Date:
June 1, 2007
Creator:
Woolf, Amy F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Horse Slaughter Prevention Bills and Issues
More than 90,000 U.S. horses were slaughtered for human food in 2005, mainly for European and Asian consumers. Congress voted to limit the use of FY2006 appropriated funds for such slaughter, but the practice continues, funded by industry user fees. Debate continues on the acceptability of horse slaughter, and how care for and/or humanely dispose of horses if they no longer went for human food.
Date:
August 1, 2006
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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