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Defense Research: DOD's Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Program (open access)

Defense Research: DOD's Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Program

Congress supports the research and development efforts of the Department of Defense (DOD) with a Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation. The appropriation primarily supports the development of the nation’s future military hardware and software and the technology base upon which those products rely. It is the federal government’s single largest research and development account. Besides supporting the nation’s military needs, some of the technology developed with RDT&E funds spills over into the commercial sector. For these reasons, RDT&E funding draws a considerable amount of attention within Congress each year.
Date: July 25, 2003
Creator: Moteff, John D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kosovo and Macedonia: U.S. and Allied Military Operations (open access)

Kosovo and Macedonia: U.S. and Allied Military Operations

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Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kosovo and Macedonia: U.S. and Allied Military Operations (open access)

Kosovo and Macedonia: U.S. and Allied Military Operations

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Date: June 25, 2002
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy DD(X) and LCS Ship Acquisition Programs: Oversight Issues and Options for Congress (open access)

Navy DD(X) and LCS Ship Acquisition Programs: Oversight Issues and Options for Congress

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Date: January 25, 2005
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
European Security: The Debate in NATO and the European Union (open access)

European Security: The Debate in NATO and the European Union

This report reviews progress within NATO to develop a European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI), and the initiative within the European Union to create a common European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). The report considers both European and U.S. perspectives on these developments. It will be updated as events warrant.
Date: April 25, 2000
Creator: Donfried, Karen & Gallis, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Allied Burdensharing in Transition: Status and Implications for the United States (open access)

Allied Burdensharing in Transition: Status and Implications for the United States

This report describes recent changes in U.S. burdensharing relationships with NATO, Japan and South Korea and, in the process, identifies some implications for U.S. foreign policy.
Date: October 25, 1991
Creator: Pagliano, Gary J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism Funding: FY2002 Appropriations Bills (open access)

Terrorism Funding: FY2002 Appropriations Bills

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Date: October 25, 2001
Creator: Nowels, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy (open access)

Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy

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Date: February 25, 2002
Creator: Lee, Rensselaer & Perl, Raphael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality: Implementing the Clean Water Act (open access)

Water Quality: Implementing the Clean Water Act

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Date: November 25, 2002
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crime Control: The Federal Response (open access)

Crime Control: The Federal Response

Under the federal system in the United States, the states and localities traditionally have held the major responsibility for prevention and control of crime and maintenance of order. For most of the Republic’s history, “police powers” in the broad sense were reserved to the states under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. Many still hold that view, but others see a string of court decisions in recent decades as providing the basis for a far more active federal role. Several bills are discussed in this report that address issues related to crime, juvenile justice, and Congress’ evolving role in crime legislation.
Date: January 25, 2003
Creator: O'Bryant, JoAnne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Obscenity and Indecency: Constitutional Principles and Federal Statutes (open access)

Obscenity and Indecency: Constitutional Principles and Federal Statutes

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Date: June 25, 2003
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hatch-Waxman Act: Proposed Legislative Changes Affecting Pharmaceutical Patents (open access)

The Hatch-Waxman Act: Proposed Legislative Changes Affecting Pharmaceutical Patents

This record provides information about The Hatch-Waxman Act: Proposed Legislative Changes Affecting Pharmaceutical Patents. Congressional interests in the cost of Pharmaceuticals have focused attention on several areas where the federal government has policies and programs.
Date: November 25, 2002
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H. & Thomas, John R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
H.Res. 450, Rule for Getting the Trade Bill to Conference (open access)

H.Res. 450, Rule for Getting the Trade Bill to Conference

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Date: June 25, 2002
Creator: Rundquist, Paul S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Office of the Parliamentarian in the House and Senate (open access)

The Office of the Parliamentarian in the House and Senate

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Date: July 25, 2003
Creator: Campbell, Colton C. & Bach, Stanley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Budget Actions in 2003 (open access)

Congressional Budget Actions in 2003

During the first session of the 108th Congress, the House and Senate will consider many different budgetary measures. Most measures pertain to fiscal year (FY) 2004 (which began on October 1, 2003) and beyond. Some also pertain to the budget for FY2003. As the session progresses, this report will describe House and Senate action on major budgetary legislation within the framework of the congressional budget process and other procedural requirements.
Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Budget Resolutions: Selected Statistics and Information Guide (open access)

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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee Funding Resolutions and Processes, 106th Congress (open access)

Committee Funding Resolutions and Processes, 106th Congress

This report describes the procedures under which committee funding resolutions are considered in the two chambers. A table at the end of the report shows funds approved for the 105th Congress, and the funds requested, recommended, and approved for the 106th Congress for each House committee. The Senate agreed to temporary funding extensions for its committees pending a decision to shift to a fiscal year-based funding process.
Date: March 25, 1999
Creator: Rundquist, Paul S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Budget Actions in 2002 (open access)

Congressional Budget Actions in 2002

During the second session of the 107th Congress, the House and Senate will consider many different budgetary measures. Most of these measures will pertain to FY2003 (which will begin on October 1, 2002) and beyond, but some may make adjustments to the budget for FY2002. As the congressional session progresses, this issue brief will describe House and Senate action on major budgetary legislation within the framework of the congressional budget process and other procedural requirements.
Date: February 25, 2002
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Messages, Petitions, Communications, and Memorials to Congress (open access)

Messages, Petitions, Communications, and Memorials to Congress

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Date: February 25, 1999
Creator: Rundquist, Paul S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Resources in CRS Research Centers and the La Follette Congressional Reading Room (open access)

Congressional Resources in CRS Research Centers and the La Follette Congressional Reading Room

This report describes types of CRS products and a selection of the most frequently used printed and online reference sources available in the reading room and research centers for use by congressional staff. These deal with legislation and public policy; bills, congressional documents, laws, and regulations; Congress, elections, and politics; the federal government; directories of organizations, associations, corporations, state agencies, educational institutions, and the media; biographical information; data on foreign countries and international affairs; quick facts and statistics; and special collections such as quotations.
Date: September 25, 2001
Creator: Gerli, Merete F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Congressional Budget Process Timetable (open access)

The Congressional Budget Process Timetable

The Congressional Budget Act (CBA) of 1974 (P.L. 93-344), as amended, establishes the congressional budget process, which coordinates the legislative activities on the budget resolution, appropriations bills, reconciliation legislation, revenue measures, and other budgetary legislation. Section 300 of this act provides a timetable (see Table 1) so that Congress may complete its work on the budget by the start of the fiscal year on October 1.
Date: February 25, 1999
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speechwriting in Perspective: A Brief Guide to Effective and Persuasive Communication (open access)

Speechwriting in Perspective: A Brief Guide to Effective and Persuasive Communication

“Rhetoric,” wrote Aristotle, “is the power of determining in a particular case what are the available means of persuasion.” This report reviews some effective means for the rhetoric of persuasive communication in speeches written by congressional staff for Senators and Representatives.
Date: February 25, 1998
Creator: Neale, Thomas H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Information Act Amendments: 109th Congress (open access)

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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Religious Persecution Abroad: Congressional Concerns and Actions (open access)

Religious Persecution Abroad: Congressional Concerns and Actions

The 105 Congress has sought to raise the priority of combating religious persecution worldwide among U.S. foreign policy objectives. The difficulty has been in agreeing on legislation that would effectively deal with religious persecution without adversely affecting other important U.S. interests. On May 14, 1998, the House passed H.R. 2431 (the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act of 1998) establishing in the State Department a Director of the Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring who is to issue an annual report assessing religious persecution abroad. The legislation places sanctions on countries and groups that carry out or permit such activities. The Senate may soon consider S. 1868 establishing an office in the Department of State to monitor religious persecution headed by an Ambassador at Large and requiring the President to take some action from a broad list of options against countries found engaging in or tolerating religious persecution.
Date: June 25, 1998
Creator: Bite, Vita
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library