Women in the United States Congress (open access)

Women in the United States Congress

This report identifies women who have served as U.S. Senators or Representatives. It notes their party affiliation, the States they have represented, the dates of their appointment or election, the length of their service, their committee assignments, and their service in committee chairmanships.
Date: April 24, 1985
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Funding for AIDS Research and Education (open access)

Federal Funding for AIDS Research and Education

None
Date: April 1, 1988
Creator: Smith, Pamela W. & Swerdloff, Jill T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Warfare: A Primer on Agents, Munitions, and Defensive Measures (open access)

Chemical Warfare: A Primer on Agents, Munitions, and Defensive Measures

The recent Department of Defense proposal to develop a capability to modernize and expand the current U.S. chemical warfare munition stocks with binary nerve agent munitions has focused attention on the subject of chemical warfare. This paper provides a brief introductory discussion of modern chemical warfare, describing the types of agents, delivery methods, and defense against chemical agents. It does not discuss policy, strategy, tactics, or disarmament aspects of chemical warfare. These issues w i l l be covered i n CRS Issue Brief IB 8l08l .
Date: April 27, 1981
Creator: Kallis, E. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Busing for School Desegregation: The Debate on Selected Issues (open access)

Busing for School Desegregation: The Debate on Selected Issues

This paper explores selected questions involving the busing of elementary and secondary school students for desegregation. On each of the selected questions a general analysis of the issue involved is presented, followed by two subsections entitled A Critic's Position and An Advocate's Position. In these subsections, an attempt is made to show how a critic of busing for desegregation and an advocate of such busing might fashion arguments on this issue in opposition to, or in support of, busing.
Date: April 30, 1981
Creator: Stedman, James B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 99th Congress, First Session (open access)

Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 99th Congress, First Session

This report presents the proceedings and debates of the 99th Congress, first session.
Date: April 22, 1985
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soviet Policy Toward the Third World (open access)

Soviet Policy Toward the Third World

Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state, provided the ideological underpinning for Soviet Third world policy. Be believed that the developing nations, most of which were still part of European colonial empires, were the "weakest link in the capitalist empires and that revolution along these nations would undermine the military and economic power of the West- In 1920, he called on all Communist parties to support these revolutions, but Soviet Russia at that time vas involved in its own civil war and too weak to sake many inroads in the Third World.
Date: April 2, 1980
Creator: Cooper, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enterprise Zones (open access)

Enterprise Zones

The enclosed material discusses the concept of urban enterprise zones, outlines the administration's proposals for the zones, and includes the major arguments for and against their creation. Because of considerable congressional interest in the enterprise zone concept, we have included a comparison of the major bills relating to enterprise zones introduced in the 97th Congress along with a bibliography for those who desire to research the subject in greater detail.
Date: April 30, 1982
Creator: Breckenridge, Charlotte
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Major Trends in U.S. Foreign Assistance to Central America: 1978-1986 (open access)

Major Trends in U.S. Foreign Assistance to Central America: 1978-1986

"This paper examines changes in the overall amount of U.S. aid [to Central America], in kinds of aid provided, in country shares, and changes in the content of individual aid programs" (p. iii).
Date: April 8, 1986
Creator: Sanford, Jonathan E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exchange Rates: The Dollar in International Markets (open access)

Exchange Rates: The Dollar in International Markets

Mainstream economic theory suggests that U.S. budget deficit was the main cause of the dollar appreciation between 1980 and early 1985. The high budget deficit forced the U.S. Government to compete against the private sector for available savings, raising interest rates in the United States. In response, net capital inflows to the United States increased, the demand for dollars on the foreign exchange market went up, and the dollar appreciated. Restrictive budgets and loose monetary policies abroad, both of which kept interest rates low abroad, also contributed to the dollar’s appreciation on over this period.
Date: April 17, 1987
Creator: Wilson, Arlene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Caribbean Basin Initiative (open access)

Caribbean Basin Initiative

On August 5, 1983, President Reagan signed Public Law 98-67, which provides duty-free entry into the United States for certain Caribbean exports and allows U.S. business people to take tax deductions for the expense of attending conventions in the Caribbean region.
Date: April 13, 1983
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act (open access)

Reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act

This report discusses about the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The reauthorization dilemma addresses all the treaty requirements, most importantly in regards to exports of pelts of American bobcats along with international trade in Endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Date: April 12, 1982
Creator: Jolly, William C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining the Monetary Causes of the Economic Slowdown (open access)

Examining the Monetary Causes of the Economic Slowdown

This issue brief investigates the effects of changes in money supply growth on the current economic conditions. The results presented are based upon a statistical methodology outlined in a CRS report (No.82-43E, March 1982) of the same title. The approach may be distinguished from most previous work along these lines in that it attempts to estimate the statistical significance of the 1979-82 deceleration in monetary growth. The resulting estimates are then employed in analyzing the timing implications of decelerating monetary growth for episodes of high and volatile interest rates, for lower inflation, and for unstable economic growth.
Date: April 5, 1982
Creator: Hull, Everson
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
Speed Limits for Motor Vehicles (open access)

Speed Limits for Motor Vehicles

None
Date: April 9, 1987
Creator: Segal, Migdon
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
Civil Rights Restoration Act: Bibliography-in-Brief, 1984-1988 (open access)

Civil Rights Restoration Act: Bibliography-in-Brief, 1984-1988

This bibliography includes references to magazine articles, monographs, and congressional documents which discuss civil rights legislation following 1984 Supreme Court decision in Grove City v. Bell which ruled title IX applies only to the specific program receiving federal financial assistance.
Date: April 29, 1988
Creator: Dove, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compensation for Crime Victims (open access)

Compensation for Crime Victims

This report discusses the growing interest in recent years in providing compensation for the innocent victims of violent crime through programs financed by the Federal and/or State Governments. At issue have been the general propriety, desirability, and feasibility, as well as the cost, of Federal support of such programs.
Date: April 27, 1984
Creator: Cavanagh, M. Suzanne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education Funding Issues for FY89 (open access)

Education Funding Issues for FY89

Congress considers annually the funding level for all programs administered by U.S. Department of Education (ED). The debate in this process has focused on how much the Federal Government should spend on education , and what, if any, program changes might be necessary to achieve these levels.
Date: April 15, 1988
Creator: Evans, Angela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education: Federal Concerns (open access)

Education: Federal Concerns

This issue brief analyzes six areas in which Federal policies to address the educational system's current needs are being fashioned (1) services for disadvantaged youth, (2) the financing of post-secondary education, ( 3 ) the level of Federal appropriations for education, ( 4 ) responses to adult illiteracy, (5) international economic competitiveness, and (6) the role of vocational education.
Date: April 12, 1988
Creator: Evans, Angela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Deregulation: Current Status and Legislative Issues (open access)

Financial Deregulation: Current Status and Legislative Issues

This report reviews deregulation to date and its effects on financial markets. Current policy issues are also identified.
Date: April 4, 1985
Creator: Wells, F. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Infant Formula: National Problems (open access)

Infant Formula: National Problems

This report discusses congressional concerns regarding infant formula that was deficient in a required nutrient.
Date: April 27, 1984
Creator: Porter, Donna V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pay Equity - The Comparable Worth Issue: Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value; By What Standards and By What Means? (open access)

Pay Equity - The Comparable Worth Issue: Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value; By What Standards and By What Means?

This report discusses the term comparable worth issue, a "theory that jobs dominated by women may be valued less not because of skills required or job content, but because they are "women's jobs (page 1)." The report analyzes historical events and lawsuits that relate to the issue of comparable worth in the workforce.
Date: April 20, 1983
Creator: Ahmuty, Alice L
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political Action Committees: Their Evolution, Growth and Implications for the Political System (open access)

Political Action Committees: Their Evolution, Growth and Implications for the Political System

None
Date: April 30, 1984
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Articles and Bibliography on the Military Uses of Space (open access)

Selected Articles and Bibliography on the Military Uses of Space

None
Date: April 12, 1983
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library