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This report briefly describes the budget sequestration process, including the ways in which a sequester could be avoided under the regular process, and then discusses in more detail various techniques that have been used since FY1991 to prevent a sequester by intervening in the regular process.

This report discusses State programs under the Child Care and Development Fund related to Child Care.

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This report contains a table of proposed, estimated, and actual budget totals for the fiscal years 1980 through 2001. The totals used in the report are based on total receipts and total outlays, not on proposed or approved annual appropriations which provide only a portion of the government's annual spending budget.

This report contains a brief background on commercial remote sensing by satellite. This report also includes the issues and policies provided by the government.

this report mainly focuses on the Summary of Supreme Court Decisions of Capital Punishment during the 2001-02 Term. This case reveals distinct characteristics.

This report provides information about the Country Applicability of the U.S. Normal Trade Relations (Most-Favored-Nation) Status. The United States extends unlimited and permanent NTR treatment to all its trading partners.

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This report highlights six of the most pupular programs among a number of programs in Washington D.C., explain the workings of the national government to a diverse range of Americans, from middle school to senior citizens.

This report provides an introduction to the legislative process on the House floor, including limitations on debate, calendars and the order of business, modes of floor consideration, senate amendments and conference reports, voting and quorum procedures, and information about a typical day on the House floor.

This report provides information on the types of problems encountered by student reservists, the scope of those problems, the remedies available to student reservists who experience difficulties related to mobilization, and an assessment of the effectiveness of these remedies. It also provides several alternative options for assisting student reservists which Congress may wish to consider.

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This report discusses about a presidential charter, A model and principles for success, Implications for the homeland security office, Administrative Developments and legislation.

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This report provides information about the Background and Issues for Congress on Homeland Security Coast Guard Operations which serves as a service within the navy upon the declaration of war or when President directs until the president by executive orders it back to the peacetime parent department.

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Key water quality issues that may face the 107th Congress include: actions to implement existing provisions of the Clean Water Act (CWA), whether additional steps are necessary to achieve overall goals of the Act, and the appropriate federal role in guiding and paying for clean water activities. Legislative prospects for comprehensively amending the Act have for some time stalled over whether and exactly how to change the law. If clean water issues receive attention in the 107th Congress, consideration of specific issues will depend in part on the CWA policy agenda of the new Bush Administration and on priorities of the key committees that have major jurisdiction over the Act.

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This issue brief views reorganization and management as involving the alteration of the program administrative structure and operations of the executive branch for reasons of efficiency, economy, and direction. The underlying issue is who reorganizes or sets management policy—Congress or the President— and by what authority and, also, for what purpose?