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First Responder Grant Formulas: The 9/11 Commission Recommendation and Other Options for Congressional Action
None
Date:
October 7, 2004
Creator:
Reese, Shawn
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Senate Legislative Procedures: Published Sources of Information
The Senate publishes its rules, precedents, and other related information so that Senators and their staff have convenient access to the Senate’s legislative procedures and can gauge how those procedures are likely to apply in various situations. Information about the Senate’s legislative procedures is published in four official documents. This report discusses these documents.
Date:
January 7, 2004
Creator:
Davis, Christopher M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Overrides of Presidential Vetoes
This report discusses Congress' power to override presidential vetoes. The President's veto authority is among his most significant tools in legislative dealings with Congress. It is effective not only in preventing the passage of legislation undesirable to the President, but also as a threat, sometimes forcing Congress to modify legislation before it is presented to the President.
Date:
April 7, 2004
Creator:
Sollenberger, Mitchel A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Vetoes, 1789-Present: A Summary Overview
This report discusses the veto power vested in the President by Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution. It provides a general overview and a table of presidential vetoes from 1789-2004, listing the coincident Congresses, regular vetoes, pocket vetoes, total vetoes, and vetoes overridden for each president.
Date:
April 7, 2004
Creator:
Sollenberger, Mitchel A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bills and Resolutions: Examples of How Each Kind Is Used
This report briefly describes the process by which Congress seeks to pass a law. During this process Congress uses a bill or joint resolution, which must be passed by both houses in identical form, that is then presented to the President for his approval or disapproval.
Date:
December 7, 2004
Creator:
Beth, Richard S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
President Clinton's Vetoes
This report provides a table outlining the bills vetoed by President William Jefferson Clinton's two terms in office. It includes an overview and the bill number, date, title, and override attempts for each veto.
Date:
April 7, 2004
Creator:
Sollenberger, Mitchel A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Missile Defense: The Current Debate
This report provides background information on the Bush Administration's proposed approach toward the development and deployment of missile defense. It also discusses key related issues.
Date:
December 7, 2004
Creator:
Hildreth, Steven A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Visa Issuances: Policy, Issues, and Legislation
This report opens with an overview of visa issuances, with sections on procedures for aliens coming to live in the United States permanently and on procedures for aliens admitted for temporary stays. It includes a discussion of visa screening policies, including inadmissibility, databases, an analysis of visa refusals, biometric visas and other major visa policy procedures. Summaries of key laws revising visa policy enacted in the 107th Congress follows. The final section analyzes selected issues in the 108th Congress, notably the 9/11 Commission recommendations, visa revocation and removal, new technologies, potential impact on business, and other security concerns.
Date:
December 7, 2004
Creator:
Wasem, Ruth Ellen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Joint Committee on Intelligence and Alternatives: Proposals from the 9/11 Commission and Others
This report first describes the current select committees on intelligence and briefly covers the former Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
Date:
October 7, 2004
Creator:
Kaiser, Frederick M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Earmarks and Limitations in Appropriations Bills
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Date:
December 7, 2004
Creator:
Streeter, Sandy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A History of Federal Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Taxes
This report details the history of the three federal transfer taxes, tracing their development from their eighteenth century roots to the present.
Date:
January 7, 2004
Creator:
Luckey, John R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment
This report provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment.
Date:
January 7, 2004
Creator:
Cohen, Henry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Government Performance and Results Act: Brief History and Implementation Activities
This report discusses implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act.
Date:
June 7, 2004
Creator:
Knezo, Genevieve J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . . .” This language restricts government both more and less than it would if it were applied literally. It restricts government more in that it applies not only to Congress, but to all branches of the federal government, and to all branches of state and local government. It restricts government less in that it provides no protection to some types of speech and only limited protection to others. This report provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment — of the ways that the Supreme Court has interpreted the guarantee of freedom of speech and press to provide no protection or only limited protection for some types of speech.
Date:
January 7, 2004
Creator:
Cohen, Henry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hong Kong - U.S. Economic Relations
This report discusses about Recent economic challenges, Hong Kong- U.S. ties, Export Controls, IPR Protection, Hong Kong economic future and many more.
Date:
April 7, 2004
Creator:
Morrison, Wayne M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Border Surveillance
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to improve border security is a technique that has garnered congressional attention. This report examines the strengths and limitations of deploying UAVs along the borders and related issues for Congress.
Date:
December 7, 2004
Creator:
Bolkcom, Christopher
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Implementing the Conservation Security Program
None
Date:
July 7, 2004
Creator:
Johnson, Barbara A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library