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Endangered Species: Difficult Choices (open access)

Endangered Species: Difficult Choices

This report discusses issues debated in the 107th Congress while is considering various proposals to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). Major issues in recent years have included changing the role of science in decision-making, changing the role of critical habitat, reducing conflicts with Department of Defense activities, incorporating further protection for property owners, and increasing protection of listed species, among others. In addition, many have advocated including significant changes to ESA regulations made during the Clinton Administration in the law itself.
Date: April 3, 2002
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.; Corn, M. Lynne & Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Population Assistance and Family Planning Programs: Issues for Congress (open access)

Population Assistance and Family Planning Programs: Issues for Congress

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Date: April 3, 2002
Creator: Nowels, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Violent and Abusive Behavior in Youth: A Public Health Problem (open access)

Violent and Abusive Behavior in Youth: A Public Health Problem

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Date: April 3, 1998
Creator: Cooper, Edith Fairman
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vieques, Puerto Rico Naval Training Range: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Vieques, Puerto Rico Naval Training Range: Background and Issues for Congress

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Date: April 3, 2003
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Act Issues in the 107th Congress (open access)

Clean Water Act Issues in the 107th Congress

Key water quality issues that may face the 107th Congress include: actions to implement existing provisions of the Clean Water Act (CWA), whether additional steps are necessary to achieve overall goals of the Act, and the appropriate federal role in guiding and paying for clean water activities. Legislative prospects for comprehensively amending the Act have for some time stalled over whether and exactly how to change the law. If clean water issues receive attention in the 107th Congress, consideration of specific issues will depend in part on the CWA policy agenda of the new Bush Administration and on priorities of the key committees that have major jurisdiction over the Act.
Date: April 3, 2002
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Securities Fees and SEC Pay Parity: H.R. 1088 and S. 143 (open access)

Securities Fees and SEC Pay Parity: H.R. 1088 and S. 143

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Date: April 3, 2002
Creator: Jickling, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saudi Arabia: Current Issues and U.S. Relations (open access)

Saudi Arabia: Current Issues and U.S. Relations

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Date: April 3, 2003
Creator: Prados, Alfred B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Korea: U.S.-South Korean Relations - Issues for Congress (open access)

Korea: U.S.-South Korean Relations - Issues for Congress

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Date: April 3, 2002
Creator: Niksch, Larry A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brownfields Program: Cleaning Up Urban Industrial Sites (open access)

Brownfields Program: Cleaning Up Urban Industrial Sites

The Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is a pilot project to return idle or underused industrial and commercial facilities back to productive use, in situations where redevelopment is complicated by potential environmental contamination. The program is flexible, allowing cities to use a variety of approaches in utilizing grants of up to $200,000 to develop abandoned and underused sites, neighborhoods, and small regional areas. States and Indian tribes are eligible as well as local governments.
Date: April 3, 1995
Creator: Reisch, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mining on Federal Lands (open access)

Mining on Federal Lands

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Date: April 3, 2003
Creator: Humphries, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Science and Technology Policy: Issues for the 107th Congress, Second Session (open access)

Science and Technology Policy: Issues for the 107th Congress, Second Session

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Date: April 3, 2002
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Taxes: Where Do Surplus Taxes Go and How Are They Used? (open access)

Social Security Taxes: Where Do Surplus Taxes Go and How Are They Used?

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Date: April 3, 2000
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform (open access)

Social Security Reform

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Date: April 3, 2003
Creator: Kollmann, Geoffrey & Nuschler, Dawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Merchandise Trade Data: 1948-2002 (open access)

U.S. Merchandise Trade Data: 1948-2002

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Date: April 3, 2003
Creator: Donnelly, J. Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transportation Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Transportation Issues in the 108th Congress

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Date: April 3, 2003
Creator: Harrison, Glennon J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Egypt: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Egypt: Background and U.S. Relations

This report provides an overview of Egyptian politics and current issues in U.S.-Egyptian relations. It briefly provides a political history of modern Egypt, an overview of its political institutions, and a discussion of the prospects for democratization in Egypt, U.S.-Egyptian relations are complex and multi-faceted, and this report addresses the following current topics: the Arab-Israeli peace process, Iraq, terrorism, democratization and reform, human rights, trade, and military cooperation.
Date: April 3, 2006
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Balanced Budget and Spending Limitations: Proposed Constitutional Amendments in the 97th Congress (open access)

Balanced Budget and Spending Limitations: Proposed Constitutional Amendments in the 97th Congress

Expenditures and revenue limitation proposals link Federal spending and taxation to some measure of economic performance, such as the rate of economic growth or percentage levels of GNP or national income. The report presents this issue brief reviews, the various approaches to balance the budget and to impose spending limitations offered as constitutional amendments’ in the 97 congress.
Date: April 3, 1981
Creator: Schick, Allen & Strickland, Daniel P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
El Salvador: Political, Economic, and Social Conditions and Relations with the United States (open access)

El Salvador: Political, Economic, and Social Conditions and Relations with the United States

This report is on El Salvador: Political, Economic, and Social Conditions and Relations with the United States.
Date: April 3, 2006
Creator: Ribando, Clare
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Exon-Florio National Security Test for Foreign Investment (open access)

The Exon-Florio National Security Test for Foreign Investment

The proposed acquisition of major operations in six major U.S. ports by Dubai Ports World and of Unocal by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation sparked intense concerns among some Members of Congress and the public and has reignited the debate over what role foreign acquisitions play in U.S. national security. The United States actively promotes internationally the national treatment of foreign firms. Several Members of Congress have introduced various measures during the 2nd Session of the 109th Congress that can be grouped into four major areas: those that deal specifically with the proposed Dubai Ports World acquisition; those that focus more generally on foreign ownership of U.S. ports; those that would amend the CFIUS process; and those that would amend the Exon-Florio process.
Date: April 3, 2006
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arms Shipments to Iran (open access)

Arms Shipments to Iran

This report provides background and examines key questions in regards to the shipments of arms to Iran and the subsequent diversion of funds to Nicaraguan guerrillas by the Reagan Administration.
Date: April 3, 1987
Creator: Preece, Richard M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 238th week of the war, 120th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Eastern front, Burma, Western Europe, Italy, Southwest Pacific, Kuriles. Maps show Eastern Front; S. W. Pacific - Northern Bismarcks. Includes 9 photographs, 3 showing aerial incendiaries. Back: Southeastern Europe. Map.
Date: April 3, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues (open access)

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues

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Date: April 3, 2006
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues (open access)

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues

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Date: April 3, 2006
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Funding for Agriculture: A Brief History of Supplemental Appropriations, FY1989-FY2006 (open access)

Emergency Funding for Agriculture: A Brief History of Supplemental Appropriations, FY1989-FY2006

From FY1989 through FY2006, 33 appropriations, authorization, or farm disaster acts added approximately $55.4 billion in supplemental funding for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs. The two most recent supplemental appropriations were provided in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf of Mexico and in preparation for a possible U.S. outbreak of avian influenza. Some FY1989, the vast majority of the total supplemental funding has been paid directly to farmers, primarily through two mechanisms: "market loss payments" and crop disaster payments. This report includes the total annual funding additions in the 33 acts providing economic and farm disaster assistance through USDA programs since FY1989.
Date: April 3, 2006
Creator: Chite, Ralph M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library