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Freedom of Information Act Amendments: 109th Congress
This report discusses the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which was designed to enable any person — individual or corporate, regardless of citizenship — to request, without explanation or justification, presumptive access to existing, identifiable, unpublished, executive branch agency records on any topic.
Date:
February 25, 2005
Creator:
Relyea, Harold C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Budget Resolutions: Selected Statistics and Information Guide
This report provides current and historical information on the budget resolution. It provides a list of the budget resolutions adopted and rejected by Congress since implementation of the CBA, including the U.S. Statutes-at-Large citations and committee report numbers, and describes their formulation and content. The report provides a table of selected optional components, a list of reconciliation measures, and information on the number of years covered by budget resolutions. It also provides information on the consideration and adoption of budget resolutions, including an identification of the House special rules that provided for consideration of budget resolutions; the amendments in the nature of a substitute to the budget resolution considered in the House; the number and disposition of House and Senate amendments to budget resolutions; and dates of House and Senate action on budget resolutions.
Date:
January 25, 2005
Creator:
Heniff, Bill, Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Navy DD(X) and LCS Ship Acquisition Programs: Oversight Issues and Options for Congress
None
Date:
January 25, 2005
Creator:
O'Rourke, Ronald
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan's Nuclear Proliferation Activities and the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission: U.S. Policy Constraints and Options
None
Date:
January 25, 2005
Creator:
Cronin, Richard P.; Kronstadt, K. Alan & Squassoni, Sharon
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Iraq's New Security Forces: The Challenge of Sectarian and Ethnic Influences
None
Date:
March 25, 2005
Creator:
Sharp, Jeremy M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
China's Economic Conditions
China’s economy continues to be a concern to U.S. policymakers. On the one hand, China’s economic growth presents huge opportunities for U.S. exporters. On the other hand, the surge in Chinese exports to the United States has put competitive pressures on many U.S. industries. Many U.S. policymakers have argued that greater efforts should be made to pressure China to fully implement its WTO commitments and to change various economic policies deemed harmful to U.S. economic interests, such as its currency peg and its use of subsidies to support its SOEs. In addition, recent bids by Chinese state-owned firms to purchase various U.S. firms have raised concerns among Members over the impact such acquisitions could have on U.S. national and economic security.
Date:
April 25, 2005
Creator:
Morrison, Wayne M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Space Launch Vehicles: Government Activities, Commercial Competition, and Satellite Exports
None
Date:
April 25, 2005
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Security Threat Assessments for Hazmat Drivers
None
Date:
January 25, 2005
Creator:
Rothberg, Paul F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector
Damage to or destruction of the nation’s water supply and water quality infrastructure by a terrorist attack could disrupt the delivery of vital human services in this country, threatening public health and the environment or possibly causing loss of life. Interest in such problems has increased greatly since September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and at the Pentagon.
Date:
April 25, 2005
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia & Cody, Betsy A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Military Retirement: Major Legislative Issues
None
Date:
May 25, 2005
Creator:
Goldich, Robert L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Finance
Concerns over financing federal elections have become a seemingly perennial aspect of our political system, long centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs and reliance on interest groups for needed campaign funds. This report discusses campaign finance practices, enduring issues and today’s paramount issues. In addition it presents the Legislative Action in the 108th and 109th Congress, as well as the Congressional efforts to close perceived loopholes in Federal Election Law.
Date:
May 25, 2005
Creator:
Cantor, Joseph E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Tax Incentives of Domestic Manufacturing: 108th Congress
The enacted provision of this legislation (H.R. 4520), following the passage of the Senate’s version (then S. 1637) and the House bill (H.R. 4520) followed the Senate version, which allowed a deduction and would cover unincorporated firms as well as corporations. However, the proposal contained the broader definition of manufacturing in the House bill which included oil and gas extraction, utilities, construction, and electricity. This report discusses the provisions in these two versions of the subsidy as well as some of the issues surrounding alternative methods of providing a manufacturing subsidy.
Date:
January 25, 2005
Creator:
Gravelle, Jane G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations: Issues of U.S. Military Involvement
None
Date:
June 25, 2005
Creator:
Serafino, Nina M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Millennium Challenge Account: Implementation of a New U.S. Foreign Aid Initiative
None
Date:
May 25, 2005
Creator:
Nowels, Larry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Immigration: Analysis of the Major Provisions of the REAL ID Act of 2005
During the 108th Congress, a number of proposals related to immigration and identification-document security were introduced, some of which were considered in the context of implementing recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9/11 Commission) and enacted pursuant to the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-458). At the time that the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act was adopted, some congressional leaders reportedly agreed to revisit certain immigration and document-security issues in the 109th Congress that had been dropped from the final version of the act.
Date:
May 25, 2005
Creator:
Garcia, Michael John; Lee, Margaret Mikyung & Tatelman, Todd B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Political Status of Puerto Rico: Background, Options, and Issues in the 109th Congress
None
Date:
May 25, 2005
Creator:
Bea, Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications
None
Date:
May 25, 2005
Creator:
Villarreal, M. Angeles
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan: Chronology of Recent Events
None
Date:
January 25, 2005
Creator:
Kronstadt, K. Alan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan: Chronology of Recent Events
None
Date:
April 25, 2005
Creator:
Kronstadt, K. Alan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
House Select Committee on Intelligence: Leadership and Assignment Limitations
None
Date:
April 25, 2005
Creator:
Schneider, Judy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Israel: Background and Relations with the United States
None
Date:
July 25, 2005
Creator:
Migdalovitz, Carol
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Navy Trident Submarine Conversion (SSGN) Program: Background and Issues for Congress
None
Date:
May 25, 2005
Creator:
O'Rourke, Ronald
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Navy CVN-21 Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress
None
Date:
May 25, 2005
Creator:
O'Rourke, Ronald
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Controversies for the 109th Congress
This report discusses the ongoing debate about whether or not to approve energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Current law forbids energy leasing in the Refuge. This report addresses several legislative options on the issue, as well as policymakers' arguments for and against development, especially in the wake of increasing terrorism since 2000-2001.
Date:
April 25, 2005
Creator:
Corn, M. Lynne; Gelb, Bernard A. & Baldwin, Pamela
System:
The UNT Digital Library