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Partial-Birth Abortion: Recent Developments in the Law (open access)

Partial-Birth Abortion: Recent Developments in the Law

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Date: October 26, 2004
Creator: Shimabukuro, Jon O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change (open access)

Global Climate Change

This report briefly reviews the status of climate science, international negotiations, and congressional activity focused specifically on climate change.
Date: October 29, 2004
Creator: Justus, John R. & Fletcher, Susan R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change: The Kyoto Protocol (open access)

Global Climate Change: The Kyoto Protocol

This report discusses the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was completed December 11, 1997, committing the industrialized nations to specified, legally binding reductions in emissions of six “greenhouse gases.”
Date: October 27, 2004
Creator: Fletcher, Susan R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Endangered Species: Difficult Choices (open access)

Endangered Species: Difficult Choices

This report discusses issues debated in the 108th Congress while is considering various proposals to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). Major issues in recent years have included changing the role of science in decision-making, changing the role of critical habitat, reducing conflicts with Department of Defense activities, incorporating further protection for property owners, and increasing protection of listed species, among others. In addition, many have advocated including significant changes to ESA regulations made during the Clinton Administration in the law itself.
Date: October 26, 2004
Creator: Corn, M. Lynne; Buck, Eugene H. & Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mad Cow Disease: Agricultural Issues for Congress (open access)

Mad Cow Disease: Agricultural Issues for Congress

This report discuses lumber imports from Canada and provides a concise historical account of the dispute, summarizes the subsidy and injury evidence, and discusses the current issues and events.
Date: October 27, 2004
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues (open access)

The Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues

This report provides an overview of postsecondary education (institutions and students), an overview of the Higher Education Act (HEA) with a focus on its most significant programs and provisions, and a discussion of major issues that have been, or may be, of interest to the Congress during the HEA reauthorization process.
Date: October 20, 2004
Creator: Stedman, James B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Budget for Fiscal Year 2005 (open access)

The Budget for Fiscal Year 2005

The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) January 2004 budget report for FY2005 (the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2005-2014) estimated the FY2005 baseline deficit at $362 billion. CBO’s report provided estimates of the costs of selected alternative policies (measured from the baseline), such as estimates of the cost of extending the tax cuts, reforming the AMT, and discretionary spending growing at various rates.
Date: October 12, 2004
Creator: Winters, Philip D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Argentina's Sovereign Debt Restructuring (open access)

Argentina's Sovereign Debt Restructuring

The U.S. Congress has held numerous hearings to evaluate the causes and ongoing repercussions of Argentina’s financial crisis. This report analyzes Argentina’s debt situation in support of this interest and will be updated periodically.
Date: October 19, 2004
Creator: Hornbeck, J. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reducing Teen Pregnancy: Adolescent Family Life and Abstinence Education Programs (open access)

Reducing Teen Pregnancy: Adolescent Family Life and Abstinence Education Programs

Congressional Research Service (CRS) report entailing information about Adolescent Family Life (AFL) and Abstinence Education programs in regards to reducing teen pregnancy. Topics include, purpose of the programs, allowable projects, evaluations and research, etc.
Date: October 4, 2004
Creator: Solomon-Fears, Carmen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Secret Sessions of Congress: A Brief Historical Overview (open access)

Secret Sessions of Congress: A Brief Historical Overview

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Date: October 21, 2004
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
S.Res. 445: Senate Committee Reorganization for Homeland Security and Intelligence Matters (open access)

S.Res. 445: Senate Committee Reorganization for Homeland Security and Intelligence Matters

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Date: October 15, 2004
Creator: Rundquist, Paul S. & Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
War on Drugs: Legislation in the 108th Congress and Related Developments (open access)

War on Drugs: Legislation in the 108th Congress and Related Developments

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Date: October 3, 2004
Creator: Eddy, Mark
Object Type: Report
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: October 19, 2004
Creator: Perl, Raphael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sudan: The Darfur Crisis and the Status of the North-South Negotiations (open access)

Sudan: The Darfur Crisis and the Status of the North-South Negotiations

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Date: October 22, 2004
Creator: Dagne, Theodore S. & Everett, Bathsheaba
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Base Closures: Implementing the 2005 Round (open access)

Military Base Closures: Implementing the 2005 Round

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Date: October 21, 2004
Creator: Lockwood, David E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Pay and Benefits: Key Questions and Answers (open access)

Military Pay and Benefits: Key Questions and Answers

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Date: October 29, 2004
Creator: Goldich, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
POWs and MIAs: Status and Accounting Issues (open access)

POWs and MIAs: Status and Accounting Issues

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Date: October 13, 2004
Creator: Goldich, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers (open access)

Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers

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Date: October 22, 2004
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations: Issues of U.S. Military Involvement (open access)

Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations: Issues of U.S. Military Involvement

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Date: October 4, 2004
Creator: Serafino, Nina M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Border Security: Inspections Practices, Policies, and Issues (open access)

Border Security: Inspections Practices, Policies, and Issues

Some argue that this reorganization of border inspections has been long needed and is resulting in a more streamlined and efficient set of procedures at the border with a clear, single, chain of command. Others warn that the different types of inspections are quite complex in their own right and that the reorganization is exacerbating the conflicting priorities at the border, ultimately resulting in many more people and goods being sent to secondary inspections. This report, discusses a range of legal, administrative, and policy issues that are emerging with the implementation of the unified border inspections.
Date: October 13, 2004
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen; Lake, Jennifer E.; Seghetti, Lisa M.; Monke, James & Viña, Stephen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Defending U.S. Airspace (open access)

Homeland Security: Defending U.S. Airspace

This report discusses about Air Defense Challenge, Command & Control, Intercept and Surveillance.
Date: October 13, 2004
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Programs: Concepts and Definitions (open access)

Expanding Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Programs: Concepts and Definitions

The report of the 9/11 Commission called for continued support for threat reduction assistance. H.R. 10, the 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act, calls for a review of U.S. policy in this area. President Bush, Members of Congress, and analysts outside government have suggested that the United States provide threat reduction and nonproliferation assistance to nations outside the former Soviet Union.
Date: October 5, 2004
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Financing (open access)

Campaign Financing

This is one report in the series of reports that discuss the campaign finance practices and related issues. Concerns over financing federal elections have become a seemingly perennial aspect of our political system, centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs and reliance on interest groups for needed campaign funds. The report talks about the today’s paramount issues such as perceived loopholes in current law and the longstanding issues: overall costs, funding sources, and competition.
Date: October 28, 2004
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Postponement and Rescheduling of Elections to Federal Office (open access)

Postponement and Rescheduling of Elections to Federal Office

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Date: October 4, 2004
Creator: Maskell, Jack
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library