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Medicare Beneficiary Access to Care: The Effects of New Prospective Payment Systems on Outpatient Hospital Care, Home Health Care, and Skilled Nursing Facility Care
This report discusses the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA 97), which required that prospective payment systems replace retrospective cost-based reimbursement systems for Medicare beneficiaries receiving care in hospital outpatient departments, from home health care agencies, and in skilled nursing facilities.
Date:
February 2, 2000
Creator:
Merck, Carolyn L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Senate Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments
None
Date:
February 2, 2000
Creator:
Schneider, Judy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sponsorship and Cosponsorship of Bills
None
Date:
February 2, 2001
Creator:
Sachs, Richard C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
House Schedule: Recent Practices and Proposed Options
Many Members have in recent years expressed dissatisfaction with the way the House arranges its work schedule. The chief complaints appear to be that existing practices make inefficient use of time and do not allow predictability, generating persistent scheduling conflicts and other time pressures. This report discusses how four types of House schedule that have been practiced or proposed during the past decade address these areas of dissatisfaction.
Date:
February 2, 2001
Creator:
Beth, Richard S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations and Authorization for FY2002: Defense
Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittees. It summarizes the current legislative status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related legislative activity. The report lists the key CRS staff relevant to the issues covered and related CRS products.
Date:
February 2, 2002
Creator:
Belasco, Amy & Daggett, Stephen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Public Relations and Propaganda: Restrictions on Executive Agency Activities
None
Date:
February 2, 2005
Creator:
Kosar, Kevin R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress
There is a lack of consensus regarding the best method of balancing scientific publishing and national security. The current federal policy, as described in National Security Decision Directive 189, is that fundamental research should remain unrestricted and that in the rare case where it is necessary to restrict such information, classification is the appropriate vehicle to do so. Other mechanisms restrict international information flow, where Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) control export of items and technical information on specific lists. Both EAR and ITAR contain a fundamental research exclusion, but this exclusion is lost if prepublication review of research results for sensitive information occurs.
Date:
February 2, 2004
Creator:
Shea, Dana A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security and the Federal Budget: What Does Social Security's Being "Off Budget" Mean?
As a result of a series of laws enacted in 1983, 1985 and 1990, Social Security is considered to be "off budget" for federal budget purposes. While the meaning of this might seem obvious -- that Social Security is not to be considered as part of the federal budget -- many people are confused by the continued use of aggregate budget figures that include Social Security's receipts and expenditures.
Date:
February 2, 2001
Creator:
Koitz, David Stuart
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Japanese-U.S. Trade Relations: Cooperation or Confrontation?
With Japan the United States has had one of its most important and most difficult trading relationships. Japan ranks second to Canada as the largest U.S. export market. It is also the second largest single source of imports to the United States. Trade issues are likely to become even more important as the whole U.S.-Japanese relationship changes in the post-Cold War period. How each country views and reacts to the other is changing as economic issues replace foreign policy and national security issues as the driving force of the relationship.
Date:
February 2, 1993
Creator:
Cooper, William H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chinese Missile and Nuclear Proliferation: Issues for Congress
Congressional Research Service: Chinese Missile and Nuclear Proliferation: Issues for Congress
Date:
February 2, 1995
Creator:
Shuey, Robert & Kan, Shirley A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: How Soon an Arsenal?
None
Date:
February 2, 2004
Creator:
Squassoni, Sharon
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Final Regulations on Classification, Pay, and Performance Management Compared with Current Law
This report compares the final regulations with current law under Title 5 of the United States Code and relevant regulations under Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Date:
February 2, 2005
Creator:
Schwemle, Barbara L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Immigration: Analysis of the Major Provisions of H.R. 418, the REAL ID Act of 2005
This report describes relevant current law relating to immigration and document-security matters, how H.R. 418 would alter current law if enacted, and the degree to which the bill duplicates existing law.
Date:
February 2, 2005
Creator:
Garcia, Michael J.; Lee, Margaret M. & Tatelman, Todd B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons
Report on nuclear weapons used in troop support, including history, U.S. - Soviet relations, issues for Congress, and more.
Date:
February 2, 2006
Creator:
Woolf, Amy F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Internet Taxation: Issues and Legislation in the 109th Congress
This report discusses issues of state and local taxation of Internet transactions because commerce conducted by parties in different states over the Internet.
Date:
February 2, 2006
Creator:
Maguire, Steven & Noto, Nonna A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
CALFED Bay-Delta Program: Overview of Institutional and Water Use Issues
The California Bay-Delta Program (CALFED) was initiated in 1995 to resolve water resources conflicts in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Rivers Delta and San Francisco Bay (Bay-Delta) in California. The program planning effort focused on developing a plan to address three main problem areas in the Bay-Delta: ecosystem health, water quality, and water supply reliability. CALFED was authorized to receive federal funding from FY1998 to FY2000, and is now being considered for reauthorization.
Date:
February 2, 2005
Creator:
Sheikh, Pervaze A. & Cody, Betsy A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism and National Security: Issues and Trends
None
Date:
February 2, 2006
Creator:
Perl, Raphael F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches
Over the past decade, worldwide production of illicit drugs has risen dramatically: opium and marijuana production has roughly doubled and coca production tripled. Street prices of cocaine and heroin have fallen significantly in the past 20 years, reflecting increased availability. Despite apparent national political resolve to deal with the drug problem, inherent contradictions regularly appear between U.S. anti-drug policy and other national policy goals and concerns. The mix of competing domestic and international pressures and priorities has produced an ongoing series of disputes within and between the legislative and executive branches concerning U.S. international drug policy. One contentious issue has been the Congressionally-mandated certification process, an instrument designed to induce specified drug-exporting countries to prioritize or pay more attention to the fight against narcotics businesses.
Date:
February 2, 2006
Creator:
Perl, Raphael F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress
There is a lack of consensus regarding the best method of balancing scientific publishing and national security. The current federal policy, as described in National Security Decision Directive 189, is that fundamental research should remain unrestricted and that in the rare case where it is necessary to restrict such information, classification is the appropriate vehicle to do so. Other mechanisms restrict international information flow, where Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) control export of items and technical information on specific lists. Both EAR and ITAR contain a fundamental research exclusion, but this exclusion is lost if prepublication review of research results for sensitive information occurs.
Date:
February 2, 2006
Creator:
Shea, Dana A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Proposal to Map and Sequence the Human Genome
None
Date:
February 2, 1988
Creator:
Stith-Coleman, Irene
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: EPA's Air Compliance Agreement
In an effort to collect scientifically credible data regarding the effect of animal agriculture on water resources (specifically animal waste and emissions from animal feeding operations (AFO), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in January 2005 announced the Air Compliance Agreement. The agreement is intended to produce air quality monitoring data on AFO emissions during a two-year study, while at the same time protecting participants through a “safe harbor” from liability under certain provisions of federal environmental laws.
Date:
February 2, 2006
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: A Primer
This report focuses on the environmental quality of water resources as affected by animal agriculture, specifically animal waste, which can harm water quality through surface runoff, direct discharges, spills, and leaching into soil and groundwater. This report also discusses the contribution of emissions from animal feeding operations (AFO), enterprises where animals are raised in confinement, to air pollution.
Date:
February 2, 2006
Creator:
Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Pattern of Interest Rates in 2006: Could It Signal an Impending Recession?
None
Date:
February 2, 2006
Creator:
Labonte, Marc & Makinen, Gail
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Wetlands Coverage of the Clean Water Act is Revisited by the Supreme Court: Rapanos and Carabell
Twice in the past, the Supreme Court has grappled with issues as to the geographic scope of the wetlands permitting program in the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). On October 11, 2005, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two more cases (consolidated by the Court) addressing such questions — both from the SixthCircuit. In Rapanos v. United States, the issue is whether the permitting program applies to wetlands that are only distantly connected to traditional navigable waters — i.e., or at least do not actually abut them. In Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the issue is whether the program reaches wetlands that are not hydrologically connected to any “water of the United States,” the CWA term that defines the act’s geographic reach. Both cases also raise a constitutional question: assuming that the disputed CWA coverage exists, did Congress, in enacting the CWA, exceed its authority under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution? Implicating hot-button legal issues such as federal-state relations under the Commerce Clause and private property rights, and affecting the reach of several CWA provisions outside the permitting program, the Court’s decision is sure to be of great interest.
Date:
February 2, 2006
Creator:
Meltz, Robert & Copeland, Claudia
System:
The UNT Digital Library