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Resource Conservation Title: Comparison of Current Law with Farm Bills Passed by the House and Senate (open access)

Resource Conservation Title: Comparison of Current Law with Farm Bills Passed by the House and Senate

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Date: February 28, 2002
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Privacy Protection for Customer Financial Information (open access)

Privacy Protection for Customer Financial Information

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Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Murphy, M. Maureen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conference Reports and Joint Explanatory Statements (open access)

Conference Reports and Joint Explanatory Statements

The conference report presents the formal legislative language on which the conference committee has agreed. The joint explanatory statement explains the various elements of the conferees’ agreement in relation to the positions that the House and Senate had committed to the conference committee.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Bach, Stanley & Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewable Energy: Tax Credit, Budget, and Electricity Production Issues (open access)

Renewable Energy: Tax Credit, Budget, and Electricity Production Issues

Renewable energy is derived from resources that are generally not depleted by human use, such as the sun, wind, and water movement. This report discusses various aspects of policy regarding renewable energy including tax credits and budget legislation.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Sissine, Fred
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues (open access)

Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues

This report discusses the issue of U.S. economic assistance to sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the importance of continued assistance in light of U.S. national security and also various U.S.-led efforts to promote reform amongst African citizens themselves. U.S. assistance finds its way to Africa through a variety of channels, including the USAID-administered DA program, food aid programs, and indirect aid provided through international financial institutions and the United Nations.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues for the 108th Congress (open access)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues for the 108th Congress

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Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.; Hornbeck, J. F.; Serafino, Nina M.; Storrs, K. Larry & Taft-Morales, Maureen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Act of 2002: Critical Infrastructure Information Act (open access)

Homeland Security Act of 2002: Critical Infrastructure Information Act

This report discusses about Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002, Protection of Voluntarily shared critical infrastructure information, Congressional Disclosure and other provisions.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Stevens, Gina Marie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation (open access)

Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation

Falling agricultural exports and declining commodity prices led farm groups and agribusiness firms to urge the 106th Congress to pass legislation exempting foods and agricultural commodities from U.S. economic sanctions against certain countries. In completing action on the FY2001 agriculture appropriations bill, Congress codified the lifting of unilateral sanctions on commercial sales of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical products to Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Sudan, and extended this policy to apply to Cuba (Title IX of H.R. 5426, as enacted by P.L. 106-387; Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000). Related provisions place financing and licensing conditions on sales to these countries. Those that apply to Cuba, though, are permanent and more restrictive than for the other countries. Other provisions give Congress the authority in the future to veto a President's proposal to impose a sanction on the sale of agricultural or medical products.
Date: February 28, 2002
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, International Sanctions, and Illicit Trade (open access)

Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, International Sanctions, and Illicit Trade

This report discusses the "oil-for-food" program (OFFP) as the centerpiece of a long-standing U.N. Security Council effort to alleviate human suffering in Iraq while maintaining key elements of the 1991 Gulf war-related sanctions regime. The program, in operation from December 1996 until March 2003, is detailed.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: Proposed Changes to the Earnings Test (open access)

Social Security: Proposed Changes to the Earnings Test

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Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Kollmann, Geoffrey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Space Programs: Civilian, Military, and Commercial (open access)

U.S. Space Programs: Civilian, Military, and Commercial

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Date: February 28, 2005
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Analysis of the Charitable Contribution Deduction for Non-Itemizers (open access)

Economic Analysis of the Charitable Contribution Deduction for Non-Itemizers

This report summarizes the provisions affecting charitable contribution deductions of individuals, and then analyzes the incentive such a deduction would create for increased charitable giving beginning with the original proposal for a relatively low cap and then considering other approaches including the current one. It does not attempt to estimate other types of societal impacts. The non-itemizer’s charitable deduction was the single most important tax provision in the original version of H.R. 7. In S. 1924, S. 476, and the current version of H.R. 7, the nonitemizer provision was temporary and had a higher cap (and a floor). The provision affecting rollovers from IRAs, which can also function as a deduction for nonitemizers, is also discussed briefly.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Incentives for Charity: An Overview of Legislative Proposals (open access)

Tax Incentives for Charity: An Overview of Legislative Proposals

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Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fact Sheet on Congressional Tax Proposals in the 108th Congress (open access)

Fact Sheet on Congressional Tax Proposals in the 108th Congress

After passing a major multi-year tax cut in Mid-2001 (which was sunsetted after ten years) and a stimulus bill in 2002, Congress is considering energy tax subsidies, tax incentives for charitable giving deductions, pension diversification in the wake of the ENRON problems, and tax shelters. The House has passed several bills that would make the multiyear tax cut permanent as well as a bill to speed up certain provisions.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Richards, Don C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. International Trade: Data and Forecasts (open access)

U.S. International Trade: Data and Forecasts

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Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Nanto, Dick K. & Lum, Thomas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Syria: Political Conditions and Relations with the United States After the Iraq War (open access)

Syria: Political Conditions and Relations with the United States After the Iraq War

This report focuses on Syria’s internal politics and the impact of hostilities in Iraq on Syria’s stability and U.S.-Syrian relations. It outlines the development of the the regime currently headed by President Bashar al-Asad and its support base; describes potential challenges to the regime; examines the effect of the Iraq war on Syrian domestic politics and U.S.-Syrian relations; and reviews U.S. policy options toward Syria. It will be updated when significant changes take place and affect these relationships. For more information on Syrian foreign policy issues, see CRS Issue Brief IB92075, Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues, by Alfred B. Prados.
Date: February 28, 2005
Creator: Prados, Alfred B. & Sharp, Jeremy M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy DD(X), CG(X), and LCS Ship Acquisition Programs: Oversight Issues and Options for Congress (open access)

Navy DD(X), CG(X), and LCS Ship Acquisition Programs: Oversight Issues and Options for Congress

Report on the U.S. Navy's desire to obtain three new classes of surface combatants, including background issues, oversight, Congressional options, legislative activity, and more.
Date: February 28, 2006
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS): Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS): Background and Issues for Congress

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Date: February 28, 2006
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

This report discusses the Japan - U.S. relations. The alliance, with its access to bases in Japan, where about 53,000 U.S. troops are stationed, facilitates the forward deployment of U.S. military forces in the Asia-Pacific, thereby undergirding U.S. national security strategy.
Date: February 28, 2006
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.; Chanlett-Avery, Emma & Cooper, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taiwan: Recent Developments and U.S. Policy Choices (open access)

Taiwan: Recent Developments and U.S. Policy Choices

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Date: February 28, 2006
Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agriculture-Based Renewable Energy Production (open access)

Agriculture-Based Renewable Energy Production

Since the late 1970s, U.S. policy makers at both the federal and state levels have enacted a variety of incentives, regulations, and programs to encourage the production and use of agriculture-based renewable energy. Motivations cited for these legislative initiatives include energy security concerns, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and raising domestic demand for U.S.-produced farm products. This report provides background information on farm-based energy production and how this fits into the national energy-use picture. It briefly reviews the primary agriculture-based renewable energy types and issues of concern associated with their production, particularly their economic and energy efficiencies and long-run supply. Finally, this report examines the major legislation related to farm-based energy production and use.
Date: February 28, 2006
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress (open access)

Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress

This issue brief discusses the increasing attention being paid to alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles, the proponents of which point to their potential to improve urban air quality, decrease dependence on foreign oil, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The brief also discusses the major barriers currently preventing widespread use of such technologies, and discusses these technologies in the particular contexts of the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes and the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Date: February 28, 2005
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Security: Protecting the Privacy of Phone Records (open access)

Data Security: Protecting the Privacy of Phone Records

This report discusses recent legislative and regulatory efforts to protect the privacy of customer telephone records, and efforts to prevent the unauthorized use, disclosure, or sale of such records by data brokers. In addition, it provides a brief overview of the confidentiality protections for customer information established by the Communications Act of 1934.
Date: February 28, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Gina Marie & Rainson, Tara Alexandra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eliminating International Child Labor: U.S. and International Initiatives (open access)

Eliminating International Child Labor: U.S. and International Initiatives

In November 1999, during the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Seattle, hundreds of protestors took to the street to protest a number of issues, including the international use of child labor, which has become increasingly important in discussions on international trade, human rights and international assistance. While awareness of the issue has increased, the ability to address the complex problem has been complicated by a number of related factors including rising poverty, surging HIV/AIDS infection rates, and a lack of relevant education. This report will outline the scope of the international child labor problem, explain the difficulties in eliminating it, describe U.S. and international child labor programs, and present some issues Congress may consider.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Salaam, Tiaji
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library