House Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments (open access)

House Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments

This report discusses procedures for committee assignments, which both House and party rules detail. House rules address the election and membership of committees, especially limitations on membership. The Democratic Caucus and Republican Conference rules designate categories of committees and specify service limitations in addition to those in the House rules.
Date: February 25, 2005
Creator: Schneider, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorist Financing: The 9/11 Commission Recommendation (open access)

Terrorist Financing: The 9/11 Commission Recommendation

This report discusses the 9/11 Commission's recommendation that the U.S. government shift the focus of its efforts to counter terrorist financing from a strategy based on seizing terrorist assets to a strategy based on exploiting intelligence gathered from financial investigations.
Date: February 25, 2005
Creator: Weiss, Martin A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Postal Reform (open access)

Postal Reform

This report includes background and analysis of the United States postal reform. Causes of financial crisis, transformative plans, and activity from past congresses are also discussed in this report.
Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Stevens, Nye
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clear Skies and the Clean Air Act: What’s the Difference? (open access)

Clear Skies and the Clean Air Act: What’s the Difference?

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Date: February 25, 2005
Creator: Parker, Larry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Insurance Reform and the 110th Congress (open access)

Health Insurance Reform and the 110th Congress

This report presents basic background on health insurance that may be useful to legislators considering health insurance reforms.
Date: February 25, 2008
Creator: Hearne, Jean
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Organization and Process: A Brief Overview (open access)

House Committee Organization and Process: A Brief Overview

This report provides a brief overview of six features of the committee system in the House: organization, hearings, markup, reporting, oversight, and publications.
Date: February 25, 2005
Creator: Schneider, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cybercrime: An Overview of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Statute and Related Federal Criminal Laws (open access)

Cybercrime: An Overview of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Statute and Related Federal Criminal Laws

This report provides an overview of the federal computer fraud and abuse statute and related federal criminal laws on cybercrime.
Date: February 25, 2008
Creator: Doyle, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Privacy: An Economic Perspective (open access)

Financial Privacy: An Economic Perspective

This report will focus on the second issue by examining the economics of financial privacy in the context of the opt-out/opt-in debate, and consider the implications of a regulatory change.
Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Nott, Loretta
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recruiting and Retention in the Active Component Military: Are There Problems? (open access)

Recruiting and Retention in the Active Component Military: Are There Problems?

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Date: February 25, 2002
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Department Organization And Management—Legislative Phase (open access)

Homeland Security: Department Organization And Management—Legislative Phase

This report provides an overview of the implementation phase of the department organization and management of the Homeland Security.
Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cybercrime: A Sketch of 18 U.S.C. 1030 and Related Federal Criminal Laws (open access)

Cybercrime: A Sketch of 18 U.S.C. 1030 and Related Federal Criminal Laws

This report shows Sketch of 18 U.S.C. 1030 and Related Federal Criminal Laws on cybercrime. The federal computer fraud and abuse statute,outlaws conduct that victimizes computer systems.
Date: February 25, 2008
Creator: Doyle, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorist Financing: The 9/11 Commission Recommendation (open access)

Terrorist Financing: The 9/11 Commission Recommendation

None
Date: February 25, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Funding Postal Service Obligations to the Civil Service Retirement System (open access)

Funding Postal Service Obligations to the Civil Service Retirement System

None
Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Purcell, Patrick & Stevens, Nye
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air: New Source Review Policies and Proposals (open access)

Clean Air: New Source Review Policies and Proposals

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Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Parker, Larry
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committees: Assignment Process (open access)

House Committees: Assignment Process

This report provides an overview of the assignment process on the house committees.
Date: February 25, 2008
Creator: Schneider, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Jurisdiction and Referral: Rules and Practice (open access)

House Committee Jurisdiction and Referral: Rules and Practice

This report provides information about the Rules and Practice House Committee Jurisdiction and Referral.formal agreements, drafted among committees to stimulate their understanding of jurisdictional boundaries has been used in recent years.
Date: February 25, 2005
Creator: Schneider, Judy
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tax Deduction for Classroom Expenses of Elementary and Secondary School Teachers (open access)

The Tax Deduction for Classroom Expenses of Elementary and Secondary School Teachers

This report describes the classroom expense deduction, its interaction with other tax provisions, and proposals made concerning the tax benefit during the 108th Congress.
Date: February 25, 2004
Creator: Levine, Linda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aviation Security: Background and Policy Options for Screening and Securing Air Cargo (open access)

Aviation Security: Background and Policy Options for Screening and Securing Air Cargo

This report discusses Background and Policy Options for Screening and Securing Air Cargo of Aviation Security.
Date: February 25, 2008
Creator: Elias, Bart
System: The UNT Digital Library
Implications of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit for Dual Eligibles and State Medicaid Programs (open access)

Implications of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit for Dual Eligibles and State Medicaid Programs

This report provides information about the Implications of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit for Dual Eligibles and State Medicaid Programs. The report states the changes to eligibility for dual eligibles, changes to the scope of prescription coverage of the drugs.
Date: February 25, 2005
Creator: Tritz, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program: Background and Context (open access)

The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program: Background and Context

This reports details the effect the Safe and and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program including the change in violence and drug use.
Date: February 25, 2004
Creator: Cooper, Edith Fairman
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico's Drug Cartels (open access)

Mexico's Drug Cartels

This report details Mexican Cartels, their ties to gangs, use of financial corruption, and their cells within the United States of America. As well as, the policies that are used to eradicate drug trafficking and violence. Updated February 25, 2008.
Date: February 25, 2008
Creator: Cook, Colleen W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Institute of Standards and Technology: An Overview (open access)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology: An Overview

None
Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2009 Appropriations (open access)

Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2009 Appropriations

This report examines various aspects of H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), otherwise known as the "economic stimulus," passed by both chambers and enacted by President Barak Obama on February 17, 2009.
Date: February 25, 2009
Creator: Else, Daniel H.; Scott, Christine & Panangala, Sidath Viranga
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the 11th Congress: Conflicting Values and Difficult Choices (open access)

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the 11th Congress: Conflicting Values and Difficult Choices

This report discusses U.S. policy toward global climate change, which evolved from a "study only" to a more "study and action" orientation in 1992 with ratification of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Date: February 25, 2009
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.; Corn, M. L.; Sheikh, Pervaze A.; Meltz, Robert & Alexander, Kristina
System: The UNT Digital Library