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Arming Pilots Against Terrorism: Implementation Issues for the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program
The report discusses the issues regarding the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135), which contains provisions to arm pilots of passenger aircraft and gives deputized pilots the authority to use force, including lethal force, to defend the flight deck against criminal and terrorist threats. The report includes the legislative Background, implementation issues, equipment, training, operational procedures and costs.
Date:
March 25, 2003
Creator:
Elias, Bartholomew
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles
This report discusses about the Homeland Security on Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles where Recent events have focused attention on the threat that terrorists with shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles pose to commercial airliners. Most believe that no single solution exists to effectively mitigate this threat.
Date:
March 25, 2003
Creator:
Bolkcom, Christopher & Elias, Bartholomew
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Security Threat Assessments for Hazmat Drivers
None
Date:
January 25, 2005
Creator:
Rothberg, Paul F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sport Utility Vehicles, Mini-Vans, and Light Trucks: An Overview of Fuel Economy and Emissions Standards
None
Date:
August 25, 2003
Creator:
Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Western Water Resource Issues
For more than a century, the federal government has constructed water resource projects for a variety of purposes, including flood control, navigation, power generation, and irrigation. While most municipal and industrial water supplies have been built by non-federal entities, most of the large, federal water supply projects in the West, including Hoover and Grand Coulee dams, were constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior) to provide water for irrigation.
Date:
October 25, 2002
Creator:
Cody, Betsy A. & Sheikh, Pervaze A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wetland Issues
Instead of a single comprehensive federal wetland protection law, multiple laws provide varying levels of protection in different forms: the permit program authorized in §404 in the Clean Water Act; programs for agricultural wetlands; laws that protect specific sites; and laws that protect wetlands which perform certain functions. Many protection advocates view these laws and their implementation as inadequate or uncoordinated. Others, who advocate the rights of property owners and development interests, by contrast, characterize these efforts, especially the §404 permit program, as too intrusive. Numerous state and local wetland programs add to the complexity of the protection effort.
Date:
June 25, 2002
Creator:
Zinn, Jeffrey A. & Copeland, Claudia
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chinese Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Policies: Implications and Options for the United States
since the mid-1950s, China has made strong efforts within its limited economic and technical capabilities to develop a modest nuclear force and related delivery systems in order to: help deter superpower or regional aggression and intimidation;
Date:
March 25, 1994
Creator:
Sutter, Robert G.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
China's Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Current Policy Issues
This report provides a brief background analysis and recent developments regarding China’s Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles. The report includes topics such as: Recent Proliferation Transfers, chemical, nuclear, and missile technology sales to Iran, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, trade controls, nonproliferation and arms control.
Date:
July 25, 2002
Creator:
Kan, Shirley A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tactical Aircraft Modernization: Issues for Congress
None
Date:
November 25, 2002
Creator:
Bolkcom, Christopher
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Weapons Convention: Issues for Congress
The CWC bans the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons by members signatories. It also requires the destruction of all chemical weapons stockpiles and production facilities. Neither the United States nor Russia will be able to meet the original CWC’s deadlines for destruction of their CW stockpiles, and have been granted extensions to at least 2012. The Convention provides the most extensive and intrusive verification regime of any arms control treaty, extending its coverage to not only governmental but also civilian facilities. The Convention also requires export controls and reporting requirements on chemicals that can be used as warfare agents and their precursors. The CWC establishes the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to oversee the Convention’s implementation.
Date:
February 25, 2003
Creator:
Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons in Russia: Safety, Security, and Control Issues
None
Date:
November 25, 2002
Creator:
Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons in Russia: Safety, Security, and Control Issues
None
Date:
June 25, 2003
Creator:
Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Background and Issues for Congress
None
Date:
April 25, 2003
Creator:
Bone, Elizabeth & Bolkcom, Christopher
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Crusader XM2001 Self-Propelled Howitzer: Background and Issues for Congress
The Army has been seeking to enhance its self-propelled 155mm artillery capabilities since the late 1970's. Among other tasks, artillery systems provide direct-fire maneuver forces, such as tanks and infantry, with immediate, heavy, indirect fires from a distance. Congress has become actively involved in deciding the fate of the Crusader, whether that be to endorse the DOD cancellation decision, continue the current development schedule, or to choose another option.
Date:
June 25, 2002
Creator:
Bruner, Edward F. & Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Capable Missiles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
None
Date:
March 25, 2003
Creator:
Feickert, Andrew
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview
None
Date:
March 25, 2003
Creator:
Burke, Vee
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview
The House passed a bill (H.R. 3146) on September 24 to extend TAIF, mandatory child care, abstinence education, and transitional Medicaid, on current terms, through March 31, 2004. In the absence of legislation these programs would expire on September 30. The Senate Finance Committee approved a comprehensive TAIF preauthorization proposal of Chairman Chuck Grassley on September 10. Entitled Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone (PRIDE), the legislation would extend TANF, mandatory child care, abstinence education, and transitional Medicaid for 5 years, FY2004 through FY2008. It would raise TANF work participation standards, increase weekly work hours, add new countable work activities,
Date:
September 25, 2003
Creator:
Burke, Vee
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Military Retirement: Major Legislative Issues
None
Date:
May 25, 2005
Creator:
Goldich, Robert L.
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): Challenges for Sub-Regional Integration
None
Date:
April 25, 2003
Creator:
Hornbeck, J. F.
Object Type:
Report
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
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library