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Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
This report discusses the current political state of Iran, focusing particularly on the influence of the Taliban and other militant groups and on the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. It also discusses the U.S.-Iran relationship and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Airport Improvement Program (AIP): Reauthorization Issues for Congress
This report discusses the Airport Improvement Program and its complement, the passenger facility charge (PFC), within the broader context of airport capital development finance. After a brief history of federal support for airport construction and improvement, the report describes AIP funding, its source of revenues, funding distribution, and the types of projects the program funds.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Kirk, Robert S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aviation and Climate Change
This report provides background on aviation emissions and the factors affecting them; it discusses the tools available to control emissions, including existing authority under the Clean Air Act and proposed economy-wide cap-and-trade legislation; and it examines international regulatory developments that may affect U.S. commercial airlines.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
McCarthy, James E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Brazil’s and Canada’s WTO Cases Against U.S. Agricultural Direct Payments
None
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Schnepf, Randy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues
This report provides an overview of major legal issues likely to arise as a result of executive and legislative action to close the Guantanamo detention facility. It discusses legal issues related to the transfer of Guantanamo detainees, the continued detention of such persons in the United States, and the possible removal of persons brought into the country. It also discusses selected constitutional issues that may arise in the criminal prosecution of detainees, emphasizing the procedural and substantive protections that are utilized in different adjudicatory forums.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Garcia, Michael John; Bazan, Elizabeth B.; Mason, R. Chuck; Liu, Edward C. & Henning, Anna C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defense Logistical Support Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan: Issues for Congress
This report examines logistical support contracts for troop support services in Iraq and Afghanistan (for Afghanistan, beginning with LOGCAP IV) administered through the U.S. Army's Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP). LOGCAP is an initiative designed to manage the use of civilian contractors that perform services during times of war and other military mobilizations.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Bailey Grasso, Valerie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Disability Evaluation of Military Servicemembers
On February 18, 2007, the Washington Post published the first in a series of articles describing problems with outpatient medical care and other services provided at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The series noted, among other things, concerns about the processes used to evaluate disability in injured military servicemembers. This report is intended as a primer to describe disability evaluation in general, including evaluations used by the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs administration, as well as evaluations used by the Social Security Administration and by workers' compensation programs.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Scott, Christine & Jansen, Don J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Economic Development Assistance for Communities Affected by Employment Changes Due to Military Base Closures (BRAC)
This report discusses the geographic impact of base closures and realignments, provides an analysis of federal economic assistance programs for those affected by such closures, and analyzes possible policy issues for Congress.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Gonzales, Oscar R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Economic Downturns and Crime
This report examines the relationships between selected variables of economic strength and crime. It begins with an overview of crime rates during times of economic recession in the United States. It then reviews the existing literature in the field analyzing various data sets that examine whether the unemployment rate and foreclosures can be related to increases in the national crime rate.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Finklea, Kristin M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Domestic Illegal Drug Enforcement Efforts: Are They Working?
This report examines the federal drug enforcement data reported annually by key agencies charged with enforcing federal drug control laws. This report provides background and an overview of current federal drug control efforts and outcomes.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Franco, Celinda
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Stafford Act Disaster Assistance: Presidential Declarations, Eligible Activities, and Funding
This report discusses the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act) that authorizes the President to issue major disaster, emergency, and fire management declarations, which in turn enable federal agencies to provide assistance to state and local governments overwhelmed by catastrophes.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Bea, Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Investor Visas: Policies and Issues
This report discusses about Immigration Investors, Non immigrant Investors Visas, U.S. and Canadian Comparisons, Administrative Efforts and Current Legislation and Potential Issues for Congress.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Siskin, Alison & Haddal, Chad C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The German Economy and U.S.-German Economic Relations
This report discusses Germany's recent trends in economic performance and trade relations with the U.S. This report elaborates on these themes in three parts: historical economic performance; reform challenges facing German political leaders; and selected U.S.-German economic policy differences.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Ahearn, Raymond J. & Belkin, Paul
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Globalized Supply Chains and U.S. Policy
None
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Immigration-Related Detention: Current Legislative Issues
This report discusses issues for Congress in regards to the potential reform of the nation's immigration system. The detention of noncitizens in the United States will likely be an issue. Under the law, there is broad authority to detain aliens while awaiting a determination of whether the noncitizen should be removed from the United States.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Haddal, Chad C. & Siskin, Alison
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Medicare Premiums on Social Security Beneficiaries
This report focuses on how Medicare premiums affect Social Security beneficiaries. Medicare premiums are rising faster than Social Security benefits and are consequently consuming an increasing share of benefits over time.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Shelton, Alison M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2009
This report reviews hundreds of instances in which the United States has utilized military forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict to protect U.S. citizens or promote U.S. interests.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Grimmett, Richard F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges
This report assesses the effects of the absence of intelligence authorization legislation since FY2005. Since FY2005, no annual intelligence authorization bill has been enacted. Although the National Security Act requires intelligence activities to be specifically authorized, this requirement has been satisfied in recent years by one-sentence catch-all provisions in defense appropriations acts authorizing intelligence activities.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Best, Richard A., Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Multilateral Development Banks: U.S. Contributions FY1998-FY2009
This report shows in tabular form how much the Administration requested and how much Congress appropriated during the past 11 years for U.S. payments to the multilateral development banks (MDBs). It also provides a brief description of the MDBs and the ways they fund their operations.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Sanford, Jonathan E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The National Institute of Standards and Technology: An Appropriations Overview
None
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Schacht, Wendy H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Organized Crime in the United States: Trends and Issues for Congress
This report provides a background on organized crime in the United States as well as the tools that Congress has afforded for the federal government to combat it.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Finklea, Kristin M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Other Transaction (OT) Authority
This report discusses other transactions (OTs) which are special vehicles used by federal agencies for obtaining or advancing research and development (R&D) or prototypes. An OT is not a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement, and there is no statutory or regulatory definition of "other transaction." Only those agencies that have been provided OT authority may engage in other transactions.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Halchin, L. Elaine
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Protection of Classified Information by Congress: Practices and Proposals
This report discusses safeguards in place to protect controlled information and proposals for change of some of the mechanisms in place. Congress uses classified national security and other controlled information to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities, particularly overseeing the executive, appropriating funds, and legislating public policy.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Kaiser, Frederick M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Stability in Russia's Chechnya and Other Regions of the North Caucasus: Recent Developments
This report provides background information on terrorist attacks in Russia's North Caucasus that includes the formerly breakaway Chechnya and other ethnic-based regions--appeared to increase substantially in 2007-2009. The report discusses impact of the August 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict and the recent development in the Northern Caucasus.
Date:
January 27, 2010
Creator:
Nichol, Jim
System:
The UNT Digital Library