Andean Regional Initiative (ARI): FY2002 Supplemental and FY2003 Assistance for Colombia and Neighbors (open access)

Andean Regional Initiative (ARI): FY2002 Supplemental and FY2003 Assistance for Colombia and Neighbors

This report discusses President Bush's 2002 requests for new funding and additional authority to provide assistance to Colombia and six regional neighbors in a continuation of the Andean Regional Initiative (ARI) launched in 2001.
Date: April 23, 2002
Creator: Storrs, K. Larry & Serafino, Nina M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2002: Military Construction (open access)

Appropriations for FY2002: Military Construction

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date: April 23, 2002
Creator: Else, Daniel H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Statutory Language and Recent Issues (open access)

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Statutory Language and Recent Issues

This report discusses the major provisions of the ADA and will discuss selected recent issues, including the supreme court cases. It will be updated as development warrant.
Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Statutory Language and Recent Issues (open access)

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Statutory Language and Recent Issues

This report summarizes the major provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and also discusses selected recent issues, including ten ADA Supreme Court cases.
Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Infrastructure: Control Systems and the Terrorist Threat (open access)

Critical Infrastructure: Control Systems and the Terrorist Threat

This report addresses the cyber-vulnerability of critical infrastructure industries which regularly use industrial control systems. Industrial control systems may be vulnerable to infiltration by different routes, including wireless transmission, direct access to control system computers, exploitation of dial-up modems used for maintenance, or through the Internet. This report will specifically discuss the potential for access to industrial control systems through the Internet.
Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Shea, Dana A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: The Continuing Debate (open access)

Energy Policy: The Continuing Debate

On April 11, 2003, the House passed comprehensive energy legislation, H.R. 6 (247-175).Action on comprehensive energy legislation is in progress in the Senate. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee began markup of a comprehensive energy bill on April 7, 2003, agreeing by week’s end to provisions regarding hydrogen, hydroelectric relicensing, nuclear and renewable energy. On April 11, 2003, Chairman Domenici pulled a controversial section on climate change from the bill and indicated it would be addressed later.
Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estate Tax Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

Estate Tax Legislation in the 108th Congress

Under provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA, P.L. 107-16, enacted June 7, 2001), the estate tax is scheduled to be repealed in 2010 but reinstated in 2011. All tax cut provisions of EGTRRA are scheduled to sunset on December 31, 2010. This report tracks actions in the 108th Congress to permanently repeal the estate tax or to retain but alter the tax.
Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Noto, Nonna A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Privacy: Overview and Pending Legislation (open access)

Internet Privacy: Overview and Pending Legislation

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: U.S. Regime Change Efforts and Post-War Governance (open access)

Iraq: U.S. Regime Change Efforts and Post-War Governance

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lebanon (open access)

Lebanon

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons: How Soon an Arsenal? (open access)

North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons: How Soon an Arsenal?

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Palestinians and Middle East Peace: Issues for the United States (open access)

Palestinians and Middle East Peace: Issues for the United States

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Securities Law: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Selected 108th Congress Bills Concerning Corporate Accountability (open access)

Securities Law: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Selected 108th Congress Bills Concerning Corporate Accountability

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Seitzinger, Michael V. & Bazan, Elizabeth B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (open access)

Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and U.S. Policy

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Dagne, Theodore S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Super-Majority Voting Requirement for Tax Increases: An Overview of Proposals for a Constitutional Amendment (open access)

Super-Majority Voting Requirement for Tax Increases: An Overview of Proposals for a Constitutional Amendment

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Super-Majority Voting Requirement for Tax Increases: An Overview of Proposals for a Constitutional Amendment (open access)

Super-Majority Voting Requirement for Tax Increases: An Overview of Proposals for a Constitutional Amendment

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Shampansky, Jay R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workplace Codes of Conduct in China and Related Labor Conditions (open access)

Workplace Codes of Conduct in China and Related Labor Conditions

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Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Lum, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coming to Washington, DC? Sources of Information on Temporary Housing (open access)

Coming to Washington, DC? Sources of Information on Temporary Housing

This report will introduce a newcomer to the Washington, DC, metropolitan area to sources of general interest, neighborhoods, housing, and public transportation.
Date: April 23, 2004
Creator: Anderson, J. Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Policies on Immigrant Eligibility for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) (open access)

State Policies on Immigrant Eligibility for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

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Date: April 23, 2004
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transportation Conformity Under the Clean Air Act: In Need of Reform? (open access)

Transportation Conformity Under the Clean Air Act: In Need of Reform?

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Date: April 23, 2004
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Access to Government Information In the United States (open access)

Access to Government Information In the United States

The Constitution of the United States makes no specific allowance for any one of the co-equal branches to have access to information held by the others and contains no provision expressly establishing a procedure for, or a right of, public access to government information. Nonetheless, Congress has legislated various public access laws. These include two records access statutes — the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act — and two meetings access statutes — the Federal Advisory Committee Act and the Government in the Sunshine Act. This report provides background on the issue of government transparency and examines relevant litigation.
Date: April 23, 2007
Creator: Relyea, Harold C. & Kolakowski, Michael W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
China-U.S. Trade Issues (open access)

China-U.S. Trade Issues

This report mainly focuses on China-U.S. Trade Issues. China-U.S. ties have expanded substantially over the past several years. China overtook Japan to become the third-largest U.S.Export market and overtook Canada to become the Largest source of U.S imports.
Date: April 23, 2007
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
China’s Anti-Satellite Weapon Test (open access)

China’s Anti-Satellite Weapon Test

This report is in China’s Anti-Satellite Weapon Test.
Date: April 23, 2007
Creator: Kan, Shirley
System: The UNT Digital Library