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Japan's 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami: Economic Effects and Implications for the United States
This report presents data regarding the persons killed, missing, and buildings totally or partially damaged after the disaster in Japan. The report discusses the economic impact the disaster had on Japan and the impact on U.S. imports from and exports to Japan.
Date:
April 20, 2011
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K.; Cooper, William H.; Donnelly, J. Michael & Johnson, Renée
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
State and Local Government Debt: An Analysis
This report first provides a broad overview of state and local government finances and how these governments incorporate borrowing into their budgets. The second section reports data on state and local government debt and how that debt has changed over time. This section includes a comparative analysis of these debt parameters for each state. The third section discusses different economic perspectives on the use of debt by governments and if governments are intrinsically biased toward borrowing more than is considered economically optimal. The discussion provides background for Congress as it deliberates potential changes in the oversight of the primary and secondary markets for state and local government debt.
Date:
April 14, 2011
Creator:
Maguire, Steven
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Turkey-U.S. Defense Cooperation: Prospects and Challenges
The United States enjoys a strong legacy of defense cooperation with Turkey, both bilaterally and in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), dating from the onset of the Cold War. For both countries, mutual cooperation has major implications for national security priorities in Turkey's surrounding region-particularly the greater Middle East. A more independent Turkish foreign policy course-reflected in recent international events involving Iran, Israel, and other countries-has raised concerns among some Members of Congress. This, coupled with a decline of the military's influence in Turkish society, may affect prospects and present challenges for bilateral and NATO defense cooperation, while also generating ongoing debate over which country needs the other more to pursue and achieve its national security objectives.
Date:
April 8, 2011
Creator:
Zanotti, Jim
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Biennial Budgeting: Options, Issues, and Previous Congressional Action
Proponents of biennial budgeting have generally advanced three arguments-that a two-year budget cycle would (1) reduce congressional workload by eliminating the need for annual review of routine matters; (2) reserve the second session of each Congress for improved congressional oversight and program review; and (3) allow better long-term planning by the agencies that spend federal funds at the federal, state, or local level.
Date:
April 12, 2011
Creator:
Tollestrup, Jessica
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Oil Imports: Context and Considerations
This report discusses U.S. oil imports and trade deficit. Other policy considerations by congress are discussed in this brief.
Date:
April 1, 2011
Creator:
Nerurkar, Neelesh
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Energy Tax Policy: Issues in the 112th Congress
The economic rationale for interventions in energy markets helps inform the debate surrounding energy tax policy. This report begins by providing background on the economic rationale for energy market interventions, highlighting various market failures. After identifying possible market failures in the production and consumption of energy, possible interventions are discussed. The report concludes with an analysis of energy tax policy as it stands at the start of the 112th Congress.
Date:
April 14, 2011
Creator:
Sherlock, Molly F. & Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Appointments to Full-Time Positions in Independent and Other Agencies During the 110th Congress
This report explains the process for filling positions to which the President makes appointments with the advice and consent of the Senate (PAS positions). It also identifies, for the 110th Congress, all nominations to full-time positions requiring Senate confirmation in 39 organizations in the executive branch (26 independent agencies, 6 agencies in the Executive Office of the President (EOP), and 7 multilateral banking organizations) and 4 agencies in the legislative branch.
Date:
April 20, 2011
Creator:
Carey, Maeve P. & Hogue, Henry B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reducing the Budget Deficit: Policy Issues
This report addresses questions such as, how large are projected deficits under current policy? How much deficit reduction is necessary? How quickly should the deficit be reduced? The report also discusses policy options for deficit reduction.
Date:
April 22, 2011
Creator:
Labonte, Marc
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dispute Settlement in the Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA)
The proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA)1 follows current U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) practice in containing two types of dispute settlement: (1) State-State, applicable to disputes between the Parties to the KORUS FTA, and (2) investor-State, applicable to claims by an investor of one Party against the other Party for breach of a KORUS FTA investment obligation.
Date:
April 20, 2011
Creator:
Grimmett, Jeanne J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Terrorism Investigations
This report provides background information on key elements of the FBI terrorism investigative process based on publicly available information. This report sets forth possible considerations for Congress as it executes its oversight role. These issues include the extent to which intelligence has been integrated into FBI operations to support its counterterrorism mission and the progress the Bureau has made on its intelligence reform initiatives. In addition, these issues will also be relevant during confirmation hearings for a new director.
Date:
April 27, 2011
Creator:
Bjelopera, Jerome P. & Randol, Mark A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Disaster Relief Funding and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
This report describes the various components of the DRF, including (1) what authorities have shaped it over the years; (2) how FEMA determines the amount of the appropriation requested to Congress (pertaining to the DRF); and (3) how emergency supplemental appropriations are requested. In addition to the DRF, information is provided on funds appropriated in supplemental appropriations legislation to agencies other than the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Aspects of debate concerning how disaster relief is budgeted are also highlighted and examined, and alternative budgetary options are summarized.
Date:
April 12, 2011
Creator:
Lindsay, Bruce A. & Murray, Justin
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: History, Impact, and Issues
This report examines debates over what constitutes an unfunded federal mandate and UMRA's implementation. It focuses on UMRA's requirement that CBO issue written cost estimate statements for federal mandates in legislation, its procedures for raising points of order in the House and Senate concerning unfunded federal mandates in legislation, and its requirement that federal agencies prepare written cost estimate statements for federal mandates in rules. It also assesses UMRA's impact on federal mandates and arguments concerning UMRA's future, focusing on UMRA's definitions, exclusions, and exceptions which currently exempt many federal actions with potentially significant financial impacts on nonfederal entities.
Date:
April 19, 2011
Creator:
Dilger, Robert Jay & Beth, Richard S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Project BioShield: Authorities, Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Issues for Congress
This report discusses the Project BioShield Act (P.L. 108-276), In 2004, passed by Congress to encourage the private sector to develop medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) terrorism agents and to provide a novel mechanism for federal acquisition of those newly developed countermeasures. This law provides three main authorities: (1) relaxing regulatory requirements for some CBRN terrorism-related spending, including hiring personnel and awarding research grants; (2) guaranteeing a federal market for new CBRN medical countermeasures; and (3) permitting emergency use of unapproved countermeasures.
Date:
April 22, 2011
Creator:
Gottron, Frank
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Navy SSBN(X) Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress
This report discusses the Navy's plan to develop and design a class of 12 next-generation ballistic missile submarines, or SSBN(X)s, as replacements for the 14 Ohio class SSBNs currently in operation. The report explores certain related issues for Congress, including the affordability of the project and its potential impact on other Navy shipbuilding programs, alternatives to the program, and which shipyard or shipyards will build the proposed ships.
Date:
April 22, 2011
Creator:
O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
F-35 Alternate Engine Program: Background and Issues for Congress
This report discusses the past four years of administration proposals to terminate the program to develop the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 engine as an alternative to the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine that currently powers the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). These proposals have been continually rejected by Congress. The Obama Administration's FY2011 budget submission against proposes to terminate the program. This report explores both sides of the termination argument.
Date:
April 20, 2011
Creator:
Gertler, Jeremiah
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 26, No. 7, Pages 4843 to 5761, March 28 - April 08, 2011
Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date:
April 2011
Creator:
United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 76, Number 64, April 4, 2011, Pages 18347-18630
Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date:
April 4, 2011
Creator:
United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 76, Number 67, April 7, 2011, Pages 192651-19682
Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date:
April 7, 2011
Creator:
United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 76, Number 68, April 8, 2011, Pages 19683-19898
Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date:
April 8, 2011
Creator:
United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 76, Number 65, April 5, 2011, Pages 18631-18860
Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date:
April 5, 2011
Creator:
United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 76, Number 83, April 29, 2011, Pages 23861-24338
Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date:
April 29, 2011
Creator:
United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 76, Number 66, April 6, 2011, Pages 18861-19264
Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date:
April 6, 2011
Creator:
United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 76, Number 69, April 11, 2011, Pages 19899-20214
Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date:
April 11, 2011
Creator:
United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Register, Volume 76, Number 72, April 14, 2011, Pages 20835-21220
Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date:
April 14, 2011
Creator:
United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library