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Tobacco Price Support: An Overview of the Program
About 94 percent of U.S. tobacco production is flue-cured and burley (cigarette tobacco types). These crops are particularly important to the agriculture of North Carolina and Kentucky. The federal tobacco price support program is designed to support and stabilize prices for farmers.
Date:
June 25, 2004
Creator:
Womach, Jasper
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Rulemaking: The Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
None
Date:
May 28, 2004
Creator:
Copeland, Curtis W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Iraq Marshes: Restoration Activities. June 2004
This report discusses the status of restoration activities and funding.
Date:
June 15, 2004
Creator:
Powers, Kyna
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Education Matters: Earnings by Educational Attainment Over Three Decades
None
Date:
November 17, 2004
Creator:
Levine, Linda
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:
August 13, 2004
Creator:
Yacobucci, Brent D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues for the 108th Congress
This report summarizes the current developments in U.S-PRC relations, including current and pending congressional actions involving the PRC. It also points out U.S. Policy Trends and Key Issues in U.S- PRC Relations.
Date:
May 20, 2004
Creator:
Dumbaugh, Kerry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Pay – Status of January 2004 Adjustments: A Fact Sheet
This article talks about federal pay adjustment rates and the general schedule pay adjustment
Date:
January 24, 2004
Creator:
Gressle, Sharon
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Pell Grants for Prisoners
This report includes a brief discussion of the Pell Grant program, and the prior participation of prisoners, as well as a review of the current legislative activity.
Date:
December 14, 2004
Creator:
Mercer, Charmaine
System:
The UNT Digital Library
General Management Laws and the 9/11 Commissions Proposed Office of National Intelligence Director (NIC) and National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)
None
Date:
October 5, 2004
Creator:
Brass, Clinton T. & Copeland, Curtis W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Funding Plant and Animal Health Emergencies: Transfers from the Commodity Credit Corporation
None
Date:
July 30, 2004
Creator:
Monke, Jim
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Drug Certification/Designation Procedures for Illicit Narcotics Producing and Transit Countries
None
Date:
September 20, 2004
Creator:
Storrs, K. Larry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal R&D Funding Under a Continuing Resolution
None
Date:
November 15, 2004
Creator:
Davey, Michael E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Final Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Rules on Retiree Health Plans and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
None
Date:
November 23, 2004
Creator:
Dale, Charles V.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Issues in the 108th Congress
None
Date:
December 15, 2004
Creator:
Fletcher, Susan R. & Isler, Margaret
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Energy Tax Policy
None
Date:
July 20, 2004
Creator:
Lazzari, Salvatore
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
Wildfire Protection Funding
This report briefly describes the three categories of federal programs for wildlife protection. One category is to protect the federal lands managed by the USDA Forest Service (FS) and the US Department of the Interior. A second category assists state and local governments and communities in protecting state and private lands; these programs are used to reduce wildland fuels, to otherwise prepare for fire control, to contain and control wildfires, and to respond after severe wildfires have burned. A third category of federal programs supports fire research, fire facilities, and improvements in forest health.
Date:
March 15, 2004
Creator:
Gorte, Ross W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Pollution: Legal Perspectives on the “Routine Maintenance” Exception to New Source Review
The report surveys the original legal landscape surrounding this exemption – in the contexts of determining applicability of New Source Performance Standards, and New Source Review in Prevention of Significant Deterioration and nonattainment areas. It then summarizes the many significant developments during the current Bush Administration, both in the Federal Register and in the courts.
Date:
February 20, 2004
Creator:
Meltz, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
“Good Samaritan” Tort Reform: Three House Bills
This report discusses three 108th Congress tort reform bills: the Volunteer Pilot Organization Protection Act (H.R. 1084), the Good Samaritan Firefighter Assistance Act of 2003 (H.R. 1787), and the Nonprofit Athletic Organization Protection Act of 2003 (H.R. 3369).
Date:
September 15, 2004
Creator:
Cohen, Henry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Secrecy Versus Openness: New Proposed Arrangements for Balancing Competing Needs
During the latter half of 2004, disputes arose over whether or not to declassify portions of the sensitive content of reports resulting from congressional investigations and national commission inquiries into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the war in Iraq, and related matters. As a result, some called for Congress to create a special mechanism for the impartial and expeditious resolution of such disputes (S. 2672/H.R. 4855; S. 2845 amendment). This report discusses the culmination of one such effort at balancing legitimate competing needs for secrecy and openness.
Date:
December 22, 2004
Creator:
Relyea, Harold C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Violence Against Women Act: History, Federal Funding, and Reauthorizing Legislation
This report discusses the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 2000 which reauthorized most of the original act’s programs and created new grant programs to prevent sexual assaults on campuses, assist victims of violence with civil legal concerns, create transitional housing for victims of domestic abuse (administered by HHS), and enhance protections for elderly and disabled victims of domestic violence. VAWA 2000, also, created a pilot program for safe custody exchange for families of domestic violence.
Date:
July 15, 2004
Creator:
Laney, Garrine P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Intelligence and Policymaking: The Iraq Experience
This report explores in broad terms the relationship between the production of intelligence and the making of policy as reflected in the period prior to the war against Iraq in March 2003 and the implications for Congress.
Date:
January 16, 2004
Creator:
Best, Richard A., Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Continuing Appropriations Acts: Brief Overview of Recent Practices
This report is divided into two segments. The first segment provides the most recent developments regarding the FY2005 continuing resolutions (CRs). The second segment provides information on the history of CRs; the nature, scope, and duration of CRs during the last 30 years; the various types of CRs that have been enacted; and an overview of those instances when budget authority has lapsed and a funding gap has resulted.
Date:
November 30, 2004
Creator:
Streeter, Sandy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Telemarketing: Dealing with Unwanted Telemarketing Calls
This report provides summaries of the federal laws and regulations particular to telemarketing, the establishment of a national do-not-call registry, and on the options that are available to consumers to attempt to limit the calls that they receive from telemarketers and to report questionable telemarketing practices to local or federal authorities. The report also lists sources of additional information with addresses, phone numbers, and Internet sites (if available) and will be updated as legislation or news events warrant.
Date:
October 5, 2004
Creator:
Riehl, James R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library