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Navy-Marine Corps Amphibious and Maritime Prepositioning Ship Programs: Background and Oversight Issues for Congress
This report discusses the Navy-Marine corps amphibious and maritime prepositioning ship programs. The Navy is proposing to maintain in coming years a Navy with 31 amphibious ships and an additional squadron of 14 Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future), or MPF(F), ships.
Date:
February 1, 2008
Creator:
O'Rourke, Ronald
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Administration: Administrative Budget Issues
The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers the Social Security program (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance, or OASDI) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, and provides administrative support to Medicare and several other federal programs. Total SSA spending in FY2007 was about $624 billion, about 99% of which was mandatory spending on benefit payments. This report focuses on SSA’s spending for administrative expenses, which is discretionary and amounts to about 1% of SSA’s total spending. This funding is provided in the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
Date:
February 13, 2008
Creator:
Romig, Kathleen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Internet Taxation: Issues and Legislation
The Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) placed a three-year moratorium on the ability of state and local governments to (1) impose new taxes on Internet access or (2) impose any multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. The act grandfathered the state and local access taxes that were “... generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 1, 1998 ....” This report discusses issues of state and local taxation of Internet transactions because commerce conducted by parties in different states over the Internet.
Date:
February 3, 2005
Creator:
Maguire, Steven & Noto, Nonna A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defense Procurement: Full Funding Policy — Background, Issues, and Options for Congress
This report discusses the full funding policy, which is a federal budgeting rule that has been applied to Department of Defense (DOD) procurement programs since the 1950s. In recent years, some DOD weapons — specifically, certain Navy ships — have been procured with funding profiles that do not conform to the policy as it traditionally has been applied to DOD weapon procurement programs.
Date:
February 22, 2006
Creator:
O'Rourke, Ronald & Daggett, Stephen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Grand Jury
This report is a brief general description of the federal grand jury, with particular emphasis on its more controversial aspects—relationship of the prosecutor and the grand jury, the rights of grand jury witnesses, grand jury secrecy, and rights of targets of a grand jury investigation.
Date:
February 5, 2002
Creator:
Doyle, Charles
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Officials: Process for Adjusting Pay and Current Salaries
Leaders and Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Vice President, individuals in positions on the Executive Schedule (EX), and federal justices and judges receive an annual pay adjustment under the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, P.L. 101-194. This report includes five tables which provide the January 2004, January 2005, January 2006, and January 2007 salaries for federal officials, members of the Senior Executive Service (SES), and employees in senior-level (SL), scientific and professional (ST), and GS-15 positions in the Washington, DC, and the “Rest of the United States” locality pay areas.
Date:
February 15, 2007
Creator:
Schwemle, Barbara L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Visa Issuances: Policy, Issues, and Legislation
This report opens with an overview of visa issuances, with sections on procedures for aliens coming to live in the United States permanently and on procedures for aliens admitted for temporary stays. It includes a discussion of visa screening policies, including inadmissibility, databases, an analysis of visa refusals, biometric visas and other major visa policy procedures. Summaries of key laws revising visa policy enacted in the 107th Congress follows. The final section analyzes selected issues in the 108th Congress, notably visa revocation and removal, new technologies, potential impact on business, and other security concerns.
Date:
February 11, 2004
Creator:
Wasem, Ruth Ellen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Egypt-Gaza Border and its Effect on Israeli-Egyptian Relations
None
Date:
February 1, 2008
Creator:
Sharp, Jeremy M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Senate Rule XIV Procedures for Placing Measures Directly on the Senate Calendar
When a Senator introduces a bill or joint resolution, the measure is usually referred to committee, pursuant to provisions of Senate Rules XIV, XVII, and XXV. This report describes the Senate Rule XIV, para. 2, which requires that bills and resolutions have three readings before passage, and that they be read twice before being referred to committee.
Date:
February 20, 2007
Creator:
Koempel, Michael L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Paying Down the Federal Debt: A Discussion of Methods
None
Date:
February 1, 2002
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY2008 Budget Documents: Internet Access and GPO Availability
This report provides brief descriptions of the budget volumes and related documents, together with internet addresses Government Printing Office stock number, and prices to obtain the publications for FY 2008.
Date:
February 13, 2007
Creator:
Teefy, Jennifer
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security and Labor-Management Relations: NTEU v. Chertoff
This report provides a summary of the opinions of the district court and court of appeals and subsequent developments.
Date:
February 1, 2008
Creator:
Nicola, Thomas J. & Shimabukuro, Jon O.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Columbia River Basin’s Fish Passage Center
None
Date:
February 23, 2007
Creator:
Vann, Adam
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Calling Up Measures on the Senate Floor
This report is about Calling up Measures on the Senate floor.
Date:
February 2, 2007
Creator:
Davis, Christopher M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bankruptcy Reform: The Means Test
This report discusses Means test on Bankruptcy Reform.
Date:
February 18, 2005
Creator:
Jickling, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Health Professions Programs in Title VII and Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act: Appropriations History (FY2002-FY2009)
The health professions programs in Titles VII and VIII of the Public Health Service Act provides grants, scholarships, and loans to support institutions and individuals in the education and training of health professional and the nursing workforce. This report contains information on Title VII Health Professional Education Appropriations, Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Appropriations, and related information.
Date:
February 27, 2008
Creator:
Reyes-Akinbileje, Bernice & Wright, Mary Vennetta
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Residence Restrictions for Released Sex Offenders
This report analyzes the issue of residence restriction laws for released sex offenders by briefly examining provisions of the Adam Walsh Act; identifying and comparing residence restriction laws in a number of states; discussing the impact of residence restriction laws on sex offenders, law enforcement and the public; presenting arguments in support of and against residence restriction laws; and reviewing some alternative proposals for monitoring released sex offenders..
Date:
February 4, 2008
Creator:
Laney, Garrine P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Military Health Care: The Issue of “Promised” Benefits
In the debate over the Department of Defense policy on military health care benefits, many military personnel and retirees say that they were promised “free health care for life” when they entered the armed forces. What benefits are available and who is eligible to receive these benefits are matters determined by Congress. This report discusses the issue of “promises” of lifetime health care benefits made to military retirees.
Date:
February 10, 2000
Creator:
Burrelli, David F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Child Support Provisions Considered But Not Enacted During the 2002-2005 Welfare Reauthorization Debate
Although the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (enacted February 8, 2006) included significant changes to the Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program, it did not include many of the child support provisions that had been considered during the preceding four-year debate within the context of welfare reauthorization. This report discusses 12 such provisions that were passed by either the House or the Senate Finance Committee (or both). The Administration has included several of these provisions in its FY2008 budget.
Date:
February 15, 2007
Creator:
Solomon-Fears, Carmen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom: Questions and Answers About U.S. Military Personnel, Compensation, and Force Structure
This report provides short answers to commonly asked questions about military personnel, compensation, and force structure issues related to Operation Noble Eagle (ONE), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Operation Noble Eagle is the name given to military operations related to homeland security and support to federal, state, and local agencies in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
Date:
February 16, 2005
Creator:
Kapp, Lawrence
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Business Tax Issues in 2007
This report discusses the information related to business tax issues in the year 2007. It also discusses the business tax legislation, 2001-2006.
Date:
February 21, 2007
Creator:
Brumbaugh, David L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Intelligence and Policymaking: The Iraq Experience
None
Date:
February 21, 2006
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
South Korea-U.S. Economic Relations: Cooperation, Friction, and Prospects for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
None
Date:
February 9, 2006
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Food Safety System: A Primer
Numerous federal, state, and local agencies share responsibilities for regulating the safety of the U.S. food supply, which many experts say is among the safest in the world. Nevertheless, critics view this system as lacking the organization and resources to adequately combat foodborne illness, which sickens an estimated 76 million people and kills an estimated 5,000 each year in this country. The 110th Congress may face calls for a review of federal food safety agencies and authorities, and proposals for reorganizing them. Among the issues likely to arise are whether reform can improve oversight, and the cost to industry, consumers, and taxpayers. This report provides a brief introduction to the system and the debate on whether reorganization is needed.
Date:
February 7, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S. & Porter, Donna V.
System:
The UNT Digital Library