Federal Grazing Regulations: Public Lands Council v. Babbitt (open access)

Federal Grazing Regulations: Public Lands Council v. Babbitt

This report discusses new regulations on livestock grazing on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management became effective August 21, 1995. Many aspects of the new regulations were challenged in Public Lands Council v. Babbitt. A federal district court upheld many of the regulations, but struck down four of them and enjoined their implementation. At the appellate level, only the new regulation allowing conservation use to the exclusion of livestock grazing for the full term of a permit was held invalid. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case and argument has been set for March 1, 2000.
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recovery from Terrorist Attacks: A Catalog of Selected Federal Assistance Programs (open access)

Recovery from Terrorist Attacks: A Catalog of Selected Federal Assistance Programs

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Date: February 1, 2002
Creator: Canada, Ben
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Going to Conference in the Senate (open access)

Going to Conference in the Senate

This report discusses the steps that the Senate must take, and one more step that it may take, as it arranges to send a bill to conference committee.
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: Bach, Stanley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Suspension of the Rules in the House of Representatives (open access)

Suspension of the Rules in the House of Representatives

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Date: February 1, 2005
Creator: Carr, Thomas P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Middle East Peace Talks (open access)

The Middle East Peace Talks

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Date: February 1, 2005
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Department and Related Agencies FY2002 Appropriations (open access)

State Department and Related Agencies FY2002 Appropriations

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Date: February 1, 2002
Creator: Epstein, Susan B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2002: Interior and Related Agencies (open access)

Appropriations for FY2002: Interior and Related Agencies

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 Interior Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date: February 1, 2002
Creator: Hardy-Vincent, Carol & Boren, Susan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russia (open access)

Russia

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Date: February 1, 2002
Creator: Goldman, Stuart D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: Issues for Congress (open access)

Cuba: Issues for Congress

This report examines the economic and political situation in Cuba, including the human rights situation, and U.S. policy toward Cuba. The report also analyzes a number of issues facing Congress in U.S. policy toward Cuba, including: the overall direction of U.S. policy; challenges to U.S. policy in the World Trade Organization; restrictions on commercial food and medical exports; restrictions on travel; bilateral drug trafficking cooperation; Cuba and terrorism; funding for U.S.-government sponsored radio and television broadcasting to Cuba; the Russian signals intelligence facility in Cuba; migration issues; and compensation to the families of those Americans killed in 1996 when Cuba shot down two U.S. civilian planes. The report cites legislation that was passed in the 106th Congress, and also tracks legislative action on these various issues in U.S. policy toward Cuba in the 107th Congress.
Date: February 1, 2002
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P. & Taft-Morales, Maureen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Issues for Congress (open access)

Intelligence Issues for Congress

This report discusses intelligence issues for Congress including terrorism, conflicts between Israel and Palestine, in Iraq, and among the former Yugoslav states, and North Korean missile capabilities. Updated February 1, 2005.
Date: February 1, 2005
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Debt Reduction: Initiatives for the Most Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (open access)

Debt Reduction: Initiatives for the Most Heavily Indebted Poor Countries

This report offers a broad overview of the debate concerning debt reduction for poor developing countries. It profiles the scope and structure of debt and reviews previous debt relief strategies and the current HIPC Initiative. It analyzes and compares competing alternatives endorsed by the Administration, congressional activists, NGOs, and other G-7 governments. Several key issues, such as costs, impact, and conditionality, of pending proposals are also assessed.
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: Nowels, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Telephone Excise Tax: Revenues, Effects, and Repeal Proposals (open access)

The Telephone Excise Tax: Revenues, Effects, and Repeal Proposals

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Date: February 1, 2001
Creator: Talley, Louis Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms: Economic, Program, and Policy Issues (open access)

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms: Economic, Program, and Policy Issues

While many policymakers believe that free trade provides benefits to all trading partners, reducing barriers to trade forces firms and industries to adjust to stiffer global competition. For some, the adjustment process can be difficult and Congress, in recognizing this problem, has authorized programs to assist trade-impacted firms, industries, and workers.
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: Hornbeck, J. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Textile and Apparel Trade Issues (open access)

Textile and Apparel Trade Issues

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Date: February 1, 2002
Creator: Gelb, Bernard A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets (open access)

China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets

This CRS Report discusses China’s suspected acquisition of U.S. nuclear weapon secrets, including that on the W88, the newest U.S. nuclear warhead, since the late 1970s. This current controversy, began in early 1999, raises policy issues about whether U.S. security is further threatened by the PRC’s suspected use of U.S. nuclear weapon secrets in its development of nuclear forces, as well as whether the Administration’s response to the security problems is effective or mishandled and whether it fairly used or abused its investigative and prosecuting authority.
Date: February 1, 2006
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China: Economic Sanctions (open access)

China: Economic Sanctions

This report discusses a list of economic sanctions that the United States currently maintains against China. The influence of Congress on U.S. policy toward China, once significant because so much hung on the annual possibility that favorable trade terms could be suspended, has more recently been diffused. Sanctions that remain in place today can all be modified, eased, or lifted altogether by the President, without congressional input.
Date: February 1, 2006
Creator: Rennack, Dianne E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2006 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2006

This report discusses federal research and development (R&D) funding. The Bush Administration requested $132.4 billion in R&D funding for FY2006. This sum represents a $400 million increase over the FY2005 estimated funding level of $132 billion.
Date: February 1, 2006
Creator: Davey, Michael E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Habeas Corpus Relief: Background, Legislation, and Issues (open access)

Federal Habeas Corpus Relief: Background, Legislation, and Issues

This report examines the issues surrounding the debate on whether to further restrict state prisoners’ access to federal habeas corpus filings. This report does not discuss issues related to federalism and the proper role of the federal court system in overseeing the actions of state courts pertaining to prisoners’ constitutional rights. The report opens with a discussion of a commission that was established in 1988 to study and make recommendations of the then-current federal habeas corpus system and the 1996 law that restricted prisoners’ access to federal habeas corpus relief. It then provides an analysis of federal habeas corpus petition data since 1990. The report examines whether the number of federal habeas corpus petitions and the time it takes for the federal court system to process these claims have increased since the enactment of the the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). It then discusses legislation introduced in the 109th Congress that would further restrict state prisoners’ access to federal habeas corpus relief. The report concludes with an analysis of two dominant issues that are at the center of this debate: delays caused by habeas corpus petitions and post-conviction representation.
Date: February 1, 2006
Creator: Seghetti, Lisa M. & James, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority: The Logan Act (open access)

Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority: The Logan Act

The Logan Act was intended to prohibit United States citizens without authority from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments. There appear to have been no prosecutions under the Act in its more than 200 year history. However, there have been a number of judicial references to the Act, and it is not uncommon for it to be used as a point of challenge concerning dealings with foreign officials. Although attempts have been made to repeal the Act, it remains law and at least a potential sanction to be used against anyone who without authority interferes in the foreign relations of the United States.
Date: February 1, 2006
Creator: Seitzinger, Michael V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce

Home of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, created by Congress to produce recommendations on electronic commerce and tax policy, critical information age issues with global implications.
Date: February 1, 2004
Creator: Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons Complex Reconfiguration: Analysis of an Energy Department Task Force Report (open access)

Nuclear Weapons Complex Reconfiguration: Analysis of an Energy Department Task Force Report

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Date: February 1, 2006
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Payment Limits for Farm Commodity Programs: Issues and Proposals (open access)

Payment Limits for Farm Commodity Programs: Issues and Proposals

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Date: February 1, 2006
Creator: Monke, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): Background and Issues (open access)

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): Background and Issues

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has been ratified by 167 nations, including the United States. It regulates the international trade in animals and plants that may be threatened by trade.
Date: February 1, 2005
Creator: Sheikh, Pervaze A. & Corn, M. Lynne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 33, Number 5, Pages 809-1012, February 1, 2008 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 33, Number 5, Pages 809-1012, February 1, 2008

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History