Sugar Policy Issues (open access)

Sugar Policy Issues

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Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dairy Policy Issues (open access)

Dairy Policy Issues

Several major dairy policy issues are addressed in the context of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (P.L. 107- 171, the 2002 farm bill), which was signed into law on May 13, 2002. Included in the enacted 2002 farm bill are a reauthorization of the dairy price support program for an additional 5 ½ years, and new authorization for direct payments to dairy farmers through September 2005, triggered whenever the market price of farm milk falls below a target price level.
Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Chite, Ralph M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues (open access)

The Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues

This report discusses the funding authorizations for programs in the Higher Education Act (HEA). This legislation authorizes the federal government’s major student aid programs, as well as other significant initiatives.
Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Stedman, James B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Debt Limit (open access)

The Debt Limit

Congress last raised the debt limit, to $5.95 trillion, in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-33; on August 5, 1997). At that time, the increase was deemed sufficient for the government's borrowing needs into December 1999.
Date: February 5, 2001
Creator: Winters, Philip D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Juvenile Justice Act Reauthorization: The Current Debate (open access)

Juvenile Justice Act Reauthorization: The Current Debate

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Date: February 5, 1998
Creator: Cavanagh, M. Suzanne & Teasley, David
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Measures Are Brought to the House Floor: A Brief Introduction (open access)

How Measures Are Brought to the House Floor: A Brief Introduction

This report presents a brief description of the five methods used to bring proposed legislation to the House floor for consideration.
Date: February 5, 1997
Creator: Saturno, James V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Products Liability: A Legal Overview (open access)

Products Liability: A Legal Overview

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Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State and Local Preparedness for Terrorism: Policy Issues and Options (open access)

State and Local Preparedness for Terrorism: Policy Issues and Options

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Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Canada, Ben
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United Nations Peacekeeping: Issues for Congress (open access)

United Nations Peacekeeping: Issues for Congress

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Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Browne, Marjorie Ann
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Research and Development: Funding, Organization, and Oversight (open access)

Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Research and Development: Funding, Organization, and Oversight

This report mainly describes about the Funding and Organization on Homeland Security and Counter terrorism Research and Development.Current policy issues focuses on implementation and deal with coordination setting.
Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Knezo, Genevieve J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pipeline Security: An Overview of Federal Activities and Current Policy Issues (open access)

Pipeline Security: An Overview of Federal Activities and Current Policy Issues

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Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Parfomak, Paul W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2002: Energy and Water Development (open access)

Appropriations for FY2002: Energy and Water Development

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 passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Energy and Water.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Behrens, Carl E. & Humphries, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2003: Interior and Related Agencies (open access)

Appropriations for FY2003: Interior and Related Agencies

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, consolidated, 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 Interior Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Hardy-Vincent, Carol & Boren, Susan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety Agencies and Authorities: A Primer (open access)

Food Safety Agencies and Authorities: A Primer

Several federal agencies, in cooperation with state governments, are responsible for regulating the safety of the U.S. food supply. In the wake of an outbreak of foodborne illness and the largest recall of suspected contaminated meat in U.S. history in August 1997, several policymakers have reopened the debate on creating a single, independent, federal food safety agency. They assert that this would provide more effective regulatory control over the entire farm-to-table food production and marketing system by eliminating the overlapping and occasionally competing for objectives of multiple agencies. As background for further discussion on this and related food safety issues, this report describes the roles of the primary federal and cooperating state agencies responsible for food safety and enumerates the major legislative authorities currently governing them.
Date: February 5, 1998
Creator: Rawson, Jean M. & Vogt, Donna U.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Assistance (open access)

The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Assistance

This report provides information about The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Assistance. The united states launched a program for economic assistance to the region in 1991 and later FREEDOM support act authorized this program.
Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Tarnoff, Curt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
India-U.S. Relations (open access)

India-U.S. Relations

This report discusses the context of India - U.S. relationship, and its bilateral issues.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Blood, Peter R
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Cronin, Richard P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan: Chronology of Recent Events (open access)

Pakistan: Chronology of Recent Events

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Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sensitive Security Information (SSI) and Transportation Security: Background and Controversies (open access)

Sensitive Security Information (SSI) and Transportation Security: Background and Controversies

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Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Sollenberger, Mitchel A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Caribbean Basin Interim Trade Program: CBI/NAFTA Parity (open access)

Caribbean Basin Interim Trade Program: CBI/NAFTA Parity

The entry into force, on January 1, 1994, of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has eliminated the advantage that the beneficiaries of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) and related provisions of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) had enjoyed in trade with the United States relative to Mexico, and gave Mexico an increasingly significant competitive edge over the CBERA countries. The scheduled further implementation of the NAFTA would have resulted in a substantial advantage to Mexico over the CBERA countries and vitiate in part the purpose of the CBERA.
Date: February 5, 2001
Creator: Pregelj, Vladimir N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Markets: Evaluating Some Risks the U.S. May Face (open access)

Global Markets: Evaluating Some Risks the U.S. May Face

This report covers globalization which is seen as a force that enhances the power of the market and gives greater scope for realizing the gains from trade. This is an enriching process, with improved economic well-being growing out of increased specialization of world production and elevated economic efficiency. To others, however, globalization is seen as a clear threat to their economic well-being, perceived to be retarding the growth of worker wages, increasing wage inequality, undermining domestic social relations, and raising the exposure of the American economy to foreign economic contagion. The 108th Congress is likely to have to focus attention on trade liberalization initiatives with Singapore and Chile and, perhaps the Free Trade with the Americas initiative.
Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Elwell, Craig K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Retirement: Major Legislative Issues (open access)

Military Retirement: Major Legislative Issues

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Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Goldich, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons in Russia: Safety, Security, and Control Issues (open access)

Nuclear Weapons in Russia: Safety, Security, and Control Issues

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Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues (open access)

Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues

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Date: February 5, 2003
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library