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Flexible Spending Accounts and Medical Savings Accounts: A Comparison
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Date:
February 3, 2003
Creator:
Lyke, Bob & Peterson, Chris L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Act: A Summary of the Act and Its Major Requirements
This report summarizes the Clean Air Act and its major regulatory requirements. It describes the Act's major provisions and provides tables listing all major amendments, with the year of enactment and Public Law number, and crossreferencing sections of the Act with the major U.S. Code sections of the codified statute.
Date:
January 3, 2003
Creator:
McCarthy, James E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform
This report provides background and analysis on social security reform. The report discusses the most recent development, the basis for the debate, specific areas of contention and reform initiatives.
Date:
December 3, 2003
Creator:
Kollmann, Geoffrey & Nuschler, Dawn
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Free Trade Agreements: Impact on U.S. Trade and Implications for U.S. Trade Policy
This report provides background on Free Trade Areas (FTAs) including: definitions of Free Trade Areas, why countries form FTAs, FTAs in the context of U.S. trade policy, Bush Administration policies and recent developments, the economic impact of FTAs, whether FTAs create trade or divert it, FTAs the the WTO, debate points related to FTAs, relevant legislation, and final conclusions and implications for Congress.
Date:
January 3, 2003
Creator:
Cooper, William H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicare: Payments to Physicians
This report discusses payment to physicians through Medicare, a nationwide program that offers health insurance protection for 40 million aged and disabled persons.
Date:
March 3, 2003
Creator:
O'Sullivan, Jennifer
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elevating the Environmental Protection Agency to a Department: Analysis of Major Issues
None
Date:
October 3, 2003
Creator:
Lee, Martin R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Family Caregiving to the Elderly by Employed Persons: The Effects on Working Caregivers, Employers, and Federal Policy
None
Date:
March 3, 2003
Creator:
Levine, Linda
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Title IX and Gender Bias in Sports: Frequently Asked Questions
This report answers a select number of often asked questions about Title IX and how it pertains to sports activities at educational institutions.
Date:
March 3, 2003
Creator:
Galemore, Gary L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Proposals: Issues Regarding Transfer of Immigration Agencies and Functions
This report provides a brief discussion of immigration policy priorities and agencies in the past and currently that have been responsible for the various immigration functions.
Date:
February 3, 2003
Creator:
Seghetti, Lisa M. & Wasem, Ruth E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Space Stations
This report looks into Congress' continued debate regarding NASA's International Space Station (ISS) program to build a permanently-occupied space station in Earth orbit where astronauts live and conduct research. NASA expects that research performed in the near-zero gravity environment of the space station will result in new discoveries in life sciences, biomedicine, and materials sciences. Current congressional space station debate focuses on the impact of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy on the ISS program; the possibility that portions of the space station may not be built for cost reasons; and whether Russia can fulfill its commitments to ISS.
Date:
November 3, 2003
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Item Veto and Expanded Impoundment Proposals
In recent years conflicting budget priorities and divided political control have accentuated the institutional tensions between the executive and legislative branches inherent in the federal budget process. President Clinton, like his two predecessors, called for an item veto, or possibly expanded impoundment authority, to provide him with greater control over federal spending. This report provides a brief history of impoundment and discusses the debate surrounding the line item veto.
Date:
September 3, 2003
Creator:
McMurtry, Virginia A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medical Records Privacy: Questions and Answers on the HIPAA Final Rule
This report discusses the issue facing Congress on whether to continue to support the executive branch’s prosecution of medical marijuana patients and their providers, in accordance with marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, or whether to relax federal marijuana prohibition enough to permit the medical use of botanical cannabis products by seriously ill persons, especially in states that have created medical marijuana programs under state law.
Date:
January 3, 2003
Creator:
Redhead, C. Stephen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Naming Post Offices Through Legislation
This report describes how the practice of naming post offices through public law originated and how it is commonly done today. House and Senate practices for approving such legislation, and procedures followed by the U.S. Postal Service in organizing a dedication ceremony, are also described.
Date:
July 3, 2003
Creator:
Stevens, Nye
System:
The UNT Digital Library