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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: A Brief Overview of Selected Issues
This report briefly outlines three issues and touches upon some of the perspectives reflected in the ongoing debate. These issues include the inherent and often dynamic tension between national security and civil liberties, particularly rights of privacy and free speach.
Date:
December 14, 2007
Creator:
Bazan, Elizabeth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Comparison of House-Passed H.R. 3773, S. 2248 as Reported by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and S. 2248 as Reported Out of the Senate Judiciary Committee
None
Date:
December 14, 2007
Creator:
Bazan, Elizabeth B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Livestock Price Reporting: Background
This report summarizes how the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting (LMPR) law expired on September 30, 2005. And after considering all the approaches they took in the past, the house agreed to the bill to extend LMPR for Five more years while Senate agreed to one-year extension. Updated December 14, 2005.
Date:
December 14, 2005
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): Congressional Issues
This report provides background on Convention developments, including U.S. policy and Congressional actions, and considers arguments for and against ratification.
Date:
December 14, 2006
Creator:
Blanchfield, Luisa
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The United Nations Human Rights Council: Issues for Congress
This report provides historical background of the Council, including the role of the previous Commission. It discusses the Council's current mandate and structure, as well as U.S. policy and congressional actions.
Date:
December 14, 2009
Creator:
Blanchfield, Luisa
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: A Chronology, FY1970-FY2005
This report is a research aid, which lists the Department of Defense (DOD) authorization bills (Table 1) and appropriations bills (Table 2).
Date:
December 14, 2004
Creator:
Carter, Linwood B. & Coipuram, Thomas, Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
AIDS in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has been far more severely affected by AIDS than any other part of the world. The United Nations reports that 25.3 million adults and children are infected with the HIV virus in the region, which has about 10% of the world's population but more than 70% of the worldwide total of infected people. This report discusses this issue in detail, including the cause of the African AIDS epidemic, the social and economic consequences, response and treatment, and U.S. policy.
Date:
December 14, 2001
Creator:
Copson, Raymond W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Authorization and Appropriations for FY2005: Defense
This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense. It summarizes the status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related congressional activity.
Date:
December 14, 2004
Creator:
Daggett, Stephen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal R&D Funding Under a Continuing Resolution
This report discusses the continuing resolution, or CR (P.L. 109-383, H.J.Res. 102) which provides spending at FY2006 levels (through February 15, 2007), for those agencies lacking enacted FY2007 appropriations bills.
Date:
December 14, 2006
Creator:
Davey, Michael E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Crime and Forfeiture
This report provides information about Crime and Forfeiture. Forfeiture has been an effective law enforcement tool. Modern Forfeiture follows one of the two procedural routes.
Date:
December 14, 2004
Creator:
Doyle, Charles
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aviation Congestion and Delay: System-Wide and New York-Area Issues
This report addresses System-Wide and New York-Area Issues of Aviation Congestion and Delay.
Date:
December 14, 2007
Creator:
Elias, Bart; Fischer, John W. & Tatelman, Todd B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Flat Tax, Value-Added Tax, and National Retail Sales Tax: Overview of the Issues
The current income tax system is criticized for costly complexity and damage to economic efficiency. Reform suggestions have proliferated, including a national retail sales tax, several versions of a value-added tax (VAT), the much-discussed “Flat Tax” on consumption (the “Hall-Rabushka” tax), the “USA” proposal for a direct consumption tax, and revisions of the income tax. The President has indicated that major tax reform will be a priority item in his second term.
Date:
December 14, 2004
Creator:
Esenwein, Gregg A. & Gravelle, Jane G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machine (DRE) Controversy: FAQs and Misperceptions
As Congress considers proposals relating to DREs, salient issues might include the lack of information about DRE security, especially in relation to other systems and other components of election integrity; potential conflicts with HAVA requirements that might be associated with the proposals; how those proposals might impact voter confidence; and what impacts they might have on future innovation.
Date:
December 14, 2005
Creator:
Fischer, Eric A. & Coleman, Kevin J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Proposals in the 109th Congress to Split the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Report on the Ninth Circuit court of appeals, including the geography, population, caseload, proposals to split the circuit, and more.
Date:
December 14, 2005
Creator:
Garrett, R. Sam
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Cigarette Tax Increase to Finance SCHIP
This report mainly provides information about The rise in Cigarette Tax to Finance SCHIP. An original proposal would be mandated a 61 percent increase per pack.but, the resolution makes such a tax possible but not mandatory and does not set the level.
Date:
December 14, 2007
Creator:
Gravelle, Jane G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Child Custody Proceedings Under The Indian Child Welfare Act: An Overview
This report provides an overview of some of the goals and provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Date:
December 14, 2006
Creator:
Holder, Kamilah M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Civil Charges in Corporate Scandals
This report is on Civil Charges in Corporate Scandals.
Date:
December 14, 2004
Creator:
Jickling, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Who Regulates Whom? An Overview of U.S. Financial Supervision
Federal financial regulation in the United States has evolved through a series of piecemeal responses to developments and crises in financial markets. This report provides an overview of current U.S. financial regulation: which agencies are responsible for which institutions and markets, and what kinds of authority they have.
Date:
December 14, 2009
Creator:
Jickling, Mark & Murphy, Edward V.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation
This report includes information background and analysis regarding exemption for and agriculture products from United States economic sanctions. This report also details debates, enacted provisions, sales, and developments regarding this subject.
Date:
December 14, 2004
Creator:
Jurenas, Remy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change
This report discusses different perspectives used to consider issues related to the global climate change and issues related to the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto Agreement.
Date:
December 14, 2001
Creator:
Justus, John R. & Fletcher, Susan R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Selected Aviation Security Legislation in the Aftermath of the September 11 Attack
None
Date:
December 14, 2001
Creator:
Kirk, Robert S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act: Overview and Issues for Congress
This report describes Congress's pursuit of postal reform, and summarizes the major provisions of the new postal reform law. The report also suggests PAEA-related oversight issues for Congress. President George W. Bush signed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA; P.L. 109-435; 120 Stat. 3198) on December 20, 2006. The PAEA was the first broad revision of the 1970 statute that replaced the U.S. Post Office with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), a self-supporting, independent agency of the executive branch.
Date:
December 14, 2009
Creator:
Kosar, Kevin R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan-U.S. Relations
A stable, democratic, economically thriving Pakistan is vital to U.S. interests in Asia. Key U.S. concerns regarding Pakistan include regional terrorism; weapons proliferation; the ongoing Kashmir problem and Pakistan-India tensions; human rights protection; and economic development. A U.S.-Pakistan relationship marked by periods of both cooperation and discord was transformed by September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and the ensuing enlistment of Pakistan as a pivotal ally in U.S.-led counterterrorism efforts. The top U.S. officials regularly praise Islamabad for its ongoing cooperation, although doubts exist about Islamabad’s commitment to some core U.S. interests in the region.
Date:
December 14, 2004
Creator:
Kronstadt, K. Alan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Department: FY2010 Appropriations
This report describes the FY2010 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Administration requested a net appropriation of $44.1 billion in budget authority for FY2010. This amounts to a $2.8 billion, or a 6.7% increase over the $41.2 billion enacted for FY2009 (not including supplemental funding). Total budget authority requested by the Administration for DHS for FY2010 amounts to $55.1 billion.
Date:
December 14, 2009
Creator:
Lake, Jennifer E. & Haddal, Chad C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library