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Alert Systems for Missing Adults in Eleven States: Background and Issues for Congress
This report discusses the emerging development of nationwide alert systems to recover missing adults, such as those with mental impairment (such as Alzheimer's disease), developmental disabilities, or suicidal tendencies. This report provides an overview of such alert systems in 11 states: Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, and Virginia. This report also provides a discussion of issues for Congress to consider with respect to the federal role, if any, in developing state alert programs for missing adults.
Date:
May 7, 2009
Creator:
Fernandes, Adrienne L. & Colello, Kirsten J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Inequality in the Distribution of Income: Trends and International Comparisons
This report examines the distribution of income in the United States, including factors that may help explain it, how it has changed over time, and how it compares with those of other countries.
Date:
October 7, 2005
Creator:
Cashell, Brian W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards
This report discusses the current corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard of 35 miles per gallon (mpg), and the major issues on the CAFE debate. The report also offers an overview of Congressional interest in CAFE (1991-2005), and explains the CAFE and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
Date:
May 7, 2008
Creator:
Yacobucci, Brent D. & Bamberger, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Issues in the 110th Congress: Climate Change, Air Quality Standards, and Oversight
This report provides a brief overview of the climate change issue as well as other Clean Air Act issues of interest in the 110th Congress.
Date:
March 7, 2008
Creator:
McCarthy, James E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Policy Implications of Expanding Global Access to Nuclear Power
This report is intended to provide Members and congressional staff with the background needed to understand the current debate over proposed strategies to redesign the global nuclear fuel cycle. It begins with a look at the motivating factors underlying the resurgent interest in nuclear power, the nuclear power industry's current state of affairs, and the interdependence with the nuclear fuel cycle.
Date:
March 7, 2008
Creator:
Nikitin, Mary Beth; Parillo, Jill Marie; Squassoni, Sharon; Andrews, Anthony & Holt, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Regulation of Energy Derivatives
This report analyzes the development of energy derivatives regulation.
Date:
July 7, 2008
Creator:
Jickling, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Policy Implications of Expanding Global Access to Nuclear Power
This report discusses the current debate over proposed strategies to redesign the global nuclear fuel cycle. It begins with a look at the motivating factors underlying the resurgent interest in nuclear power, the nuclear power industry's current state of affairs, and the interdependence with the nuclear fuel cycle.
Date:
March 7, 2008
Creator:
Nikitin, Mary Beth; Parillo, Jill Marie; Squassoni, Sharon; Andrews, Anthony & Holt, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Enron Loophole
This report discusses the Commodity Exchange Act that exempts certain energy derivatives contracts from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Date:
July 7, 2008
Creator:
Jickling, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the 110th Congress: Conflicting Values and Difficult Choices
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Date:
June 7, 2007
Creator:
Buck, Eugene H.; Corn, M. Lynne; Sheikh, Pervaze A.; Meltz, Robert & Alexander, Kristina
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Election Reform and Local Election Officials: Results of Two National Surveys
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Date:
February 7, 2008
Creator:
Fischer, Eric A. & Coleman, Kevin J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act of 2005 (CURIA)
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Date:
March 7, 2006
Creator:
Smale, Pauline
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Civil Service Reform: Analysis of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2004
This report analyzes each of the provisions in Title XI of the conference report accompanying H.R. 1588, as agreed to by the House.
Date:
November 7, 2003
Creator:
Schwemle, Barbara L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Great Lakes Water Withdrawals: Legal and Policy Issues. October 2008
This report describes the characteristics of the Great Lakes, the interests they support, and possible threats to lake levels.
Date:
October 7, 2008
Creator:
Sheikh, Pervaze A. & Brougher, Cynthia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicle R&D: FreedomCAR and the President’s Hydrogen Fuel Initiative
This report discusses the organization, funding, and goals of the Freedom CAR and Fuel partnerships, and discusses legislation relevant to the partnerships.
Date:
February 7, 2006
Creator:
Yacobucci, Brent D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FY2009 Appropriations for State and Local Homeland Security
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Date:
February 7, 2008
Creator:
Reese, Shawn
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hate Crime Legislation
This report discusses about historical Evolution of Hate Crime Policy and Legislation, Hate Crime and Current Law, Federal Hate Crime Statistics etc.
Date:
December 7, 2007
Creator:
Krouse, William J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Early Childhood Care and Education Programs in the 110th Congress: Background and Funding
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Date:
February 7, 2008
Creator:
Gish, Melinda & McCallion, Gail
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Economic Stimulus: Issues and Policies
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Date:
August 7, 2009
Creator:
Gravelle, Jane G.; Hungerford, Thomas L. & Labonte, Marc
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Homeland Security: Compendium of Recommendations Relevant to House Committee Organization and Analysis of Considerations for the House
None
Date:
March 7, 2005
Creator:
Koempel, Micheal L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A User’s Guide to the Congressional Record
This report provides a user's guide to the proceedings of the House and Senate, the proceedings of the House and Senate.
Date:
February 7, 2001
Creator:
Amer, Mildred
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Speed of Presidential and Senate Actions on Supreme Court Nominations, 1900-2005
This report provides information on the amount of time taken to act on all Supreme Court nominations occurring between 1900 and the present. It focuses on the actual amounts of time that Presidents and the Senate have taken to act (as opposed to the elapsed time between official points in the process).
Date:
November 7, 2005
Creator:
Garrett, R. Sam; Rutkus, Denis Steven & Copeland, Curtis W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machine (DRE) Controversy: FAQs and Misperceptions
Most voting systems used in U.S. elections rely on computers in some way. The most computerized is the direct recording electronic voting machine, or DRE. In this system, votes are recorded directly onto computer memory devices. This report discusses questions that arise frequently with respect to the controversy surrounding DREs. Possible misperceptions in the debate can be classified into three categories: those relating to DREs themselves, those that relate to paper audit trails, and those that relate to recounts and audits.
Date:
March 7, 2007
Creator:
Fischer, Eric A. & Coleman, Kevin J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Anti-Terrorism Authority Under the Laws of the United Kingdom and the United States
This report is a comparison of the laws of the United Kingdom and of the United States that govern criminal and intelligence investigations of terrorist activities. Both systems rely upon a series of statutory authorizations: in the case of the United States primarily the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act; in the case of the United Kingdom, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, the Police Act, the Intelligence Services Act. Among other differences, the U.S. procedures rely more heavily upon judicial involvement and supervision, while those of the UK employ other safeguards. The UK procedures afford greater latitude to arrest, detain and supervise suspected terrorists than those available in the United States.
Date:
September 7, 2006
Creator:
Feikert, Clare & Doyle, Charles
System:
The UNT Digital Library