Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions for FY1998 (open access)

Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions for FY1998

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Date: May 4, 1998
Creator: Nowels, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biennial Budgeting: Background and Legislative History in the 106th Congress (open access)

Biennial Budgeting: Background and Legislative History in the 106th Congress

Proposals for a two-year budget cycle have previously been reported in the Senate in 1988, 1990, 1994, and 1997. Another such proposal, S. 92, was reported by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on March 10, 1999 (S.Rept. 106-12). S. 92 calls for the House and Senate to use the first year of each Congress to consider a two-year budget resolution and two-year appropriation bills, and the second year to consider multiyear authorizations and conduct oversight. More recently, biennial budgeting has also been a topic of interest in the House where the Rules Committee conducted a series of hearings on February 16, March 10, and March 16, 2000.
Date: May 4, 2000
Creator: Saturno, James V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Agent Attacks in Japan (open access)

Chemical Agent Attacks in Japan

The release of the nerve agent Sarin in Tokyo's subway system on March 20, marks the first clearly non-state terrorist use of chemical weapons. The agent was highly diluted andmfatalities were relatively few (10), though the number of injured was substantial (5,000+, with 600 hospitalized). This incident clearly indicates the potential political effectiveness of chemical weapons against an unprotected civilian population. Once a population has been sensitized by an incident like this, even the threat of CW can become significantly disruptive. Some have credited fear of another attack with contributing to the cautiousness of the Japanese police investigation
Date: May 4, 1995
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electricity Restructuring Background: The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (open access)

Electricity Restructuring Background: The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 and the Energy Policy Act of 1992

The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT) increased competition in the electric generating sector by creating new entities that can generate and sell electricity at wholesale without being regulated as utilities under PUHCA. PURPA began to shift more regulatory responsibilities to the federal government, and EPACT continued that shift away from the states by creating new options for utilities and regulators to meet electricity demand.
Date: May 4, 1998
Creator: Abel, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taiwan: Recent Developments and U.S. Policy Choices (open access)

Taiwan: Recent Developments and U.S. Policy Choices

U.S. policy concerns over Taiwan in recent years have centered on easing tensions and striking a balance between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan.
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relocating to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area: Sources of Information (open access)

Relocating to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area: Sources of Information

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Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: Kennedy, Lynne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Taxation: Issues and Legislation in the 108th Congress (open access)

Internet Taxation: Issues and Legislation in the 108th Congress

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Date: May 4, 2004
Creator: Maguire, Steven & Noto, Nonna A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kazakhstan: Current Developments and U.S. Interests (open access)

Kazakhstan: Current Developments and U.S. Interests

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Date: May 4, 2004
Creator: Nichol, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Force Aerial Refueling (open access)

Air Force Aerial Refueling

Aerial refueling aircraft are key to military air operations. The U.S. tanker fleet is numerous and effective, but old. Modernizing or replacing the current fleet of tankers presents the Department of Defense (DOD) with difficult choices in terms of desired capabilities, force structure, and budget. The Air Forceā€™s proposal to lease 100 Boeing 767 aircraft to replace itā€™s KC-135E fleet is controversial.
Date: May 4, 2004
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agriculture and FY2006 Budget Reconciliation (open access)

Agriculture and FY2006 Budget Reconciliation

On April 29, 2005, Congress completed action on the FY2006 budget resolution (H.Con.Res. 95, H.Rept. 109-62). This measure contains reconciliation instructions that require authorizing committees to report legislation to reduce spending on mandatory programs within each committeeā€™s jurisdiction. To reduce spending in mandatory U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs, conferees instructed the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to reduce mandatory spending by $173 million in FY2006 and $3.0 billion over five years (FY2006-FY2010). The Bush Administration earlier proposed changes to several mandatory USDA programs, which it said would save $5.7 billion over five years (and which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) subsequently scored at $9.4 billion in reductions). The agriculture committees must determine how to divide the cuts among the various programs under their jurisdiction by September 16, 2005.
Date: May 4, 2005
Creator: Chite, Ralph M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Housing Issues in the 109th Congress (open access)

Housing Issues in the 109th Congress

This report discusses the budget request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which would be a decrease of $2.8 billion, or almost 9%, from FY2005.
Date: May 4, 2005
Creator: Bourdon, E. Richard; Foote, Bruce E.; McCarty, Maggie; Boyd, Eugene & Jackson, Pamela J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russia (open access)

Russia

Vladimir Putin won reelection as Russian President in March 2004, in an exercise in ā€œmanaged democracyā€ in which he took 71% of the vote and faced no serious competition. The pro-Putin Unified Russia party similarly swept the parliamentary election in December 2003 and controls more than two-thirds of the seats in the Duma. Also in March, Putin replaced long-serving Premier Kasyanov with a little-known bureaucrat, Mikhail Fradkov, indicating Putinā€™s intent to take the reins of government even more completely into his own hands. Putinā€™s twin priorities remain to revive the economy and strengthen the state. He has brought TV and radio under tight state control and virtually eliminated effective political opposition. Federal forces have suppressed large-scale military resistance in Chechnya but face the prospect of prolonged guerilla warfare and terrorist-style attacks.
Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Goldman, Stuart D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Funding Issues and Activities (open access)

The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Funding Issues and Activities

This report discusses federal funding for IT research and development. Proponents assert that federal support of IT R&D has produced positive outcomes for the country and played a crucial role in supporting long-term research into fundamental aspects of computing. Critics assert that the government, through its funding mechanisms, may be picking ā€œwinners and losersā€ in technological development, a role more properly residing with the private sector.
Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Figliola, Patricia Moloney
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unemployment Compensation (Insurance) and Military Service (open access)

Unemployment Compensation (Insurance) and Military Service

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Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Whittaker, Julie M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Restoration After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (open access)

Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Restoration After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Prior to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had been seeking congressional approval for a $1.1 billion multi-year program to both construct five projects that would help to restore specified sites in the coastal wetland ecosystem in Louisiana, and to continue planning several other related projects. The state of Louisiana and several federal agencies have participated in the development of this program. This report introduces this program and restoration options that are being discussed in the wake of the hurricanes. It also discusses whether this program, if completed, might have muted the impacts of these hurricanes.
Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education Proposals in Trade Competitiveness Legislation (open access)

Education Proposals in Trade Competitiveness Legislation

Improvement on America's competitive position in international trade is one of the major issues confronting the 100th Congress. Most legislative proposals have included provisions for increasing the funding levels for Federal education programs, expanding current programs, or authorizing new programs. The primary goal is to improve the productivity of the Nation's workers by raising the skill level of the workforce. Discussions about education's role i n addressing the competitiveness issue have included the contribution of education to productivity growth, comparisons of the educational achievement of American school children with that of their peers in other nations , the educational needs of illiterate adults , and the role of technology in education.
Date: May 4, 1988
Creator: Irwin, Paul M. & Riddle, Wayne C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Morocco: Current Issues (open access)

Morocco: Current Issues

This report discusses the current political, social and economical issues in Morocco. In addition the report discuses human rights violations and terrorism.
Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predator Control and Compound 1080 (open access)

Predator Control and Compound 1080

This reports explains how Compound 1080 was used before 1972, to kill coyotes which hunt on sheep. But this also killed many other non-targeted wildlife. So, the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) cancelled the registration predator toxicants which led to even more sheep deaths. During 97th Congress, EPA decided to reevaluate the sue of Compound 1080 with a possibility of re-registering it for the usage. A judge suggested them for the suspension of this poison, and it's finally approved by the EPA on October 31, 1983.
Date: May 4, 1984
Creator: Aidala, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Space Policy and Funding: Military Uses of Space (open access)

Space Policy and Funding: Military Uses of Space

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Date: May 4, 1984
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, May 4, 1942 : week of April 24 to May 1

Text describes action on various war fronts: Japs advance to Lashio -- Allies raid Lae -- Japs attack in China -- Malta sends greetings -- Hitler in Detroit from Moscow -- Yanks in New Caledonia -- Gen. George killed -- Fourth registration -- President calls nation to new sacrifice -- Price control fixed -- Rescued crew hits sub -- U.S. movies bootlegged -- Home worries Hitler -- Eastern seaboard put under Army safeguard -- RAF 'second front' opens -- Malta stiffens fight -- Greek guerillas active -- Red commandos strike Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset map shows areas of heaviest rainfall around the Bay of Bengal. Photographs: Fortresses roamed from Australia -- Maj. Gen. Patch Jr. -- Brig. Gen. Harold H. George -- Ways will be found to deliver the planes -- The gun crew got the range -- Lt. Gen. Drum -- Germans reported Red armoured trains -- Training of U.S. Army glider pilots.
Date: May 4, 1942
Creator: [United States]. Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Haiti: Developments and U.S. Policy Since 1991 and Current Congressional Concerns (open access)

Haiti: Developments and U.S. Policy Since 1991 and Current Congressional Concerns

This report discusses the sociopolitical situation in Haiti, and U.S. policy, as well as Congressional concerns.
Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Taft-Morales, Maureen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enforcing Immigration Law: The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement (open access)

Enforcing Immigration Law: The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement

This report examines the role of state and local law enforcement in enforcing immigration law. The discussion is limited to the role of state and local law enforcement in the investigation, arrest, and detention of all immigration violators. The report does not discuss the prosecution, adjudication, or removal of aliens who violate the law. The report opens with a brief discussion of the types of immigration interior enforcement activities that the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) pursued and the current immigration activities that are now the focus of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A discussion of the legal authority that permits state and local law enforcement to enforce immigration law under certain circumstances follows. Current administrative efforts to involve state and local law enforcement in enforcing immigration law as well as selected issues are discussed. The report concludes with a discussion of the pros and cons of such a policy and an analysis of policy options for Congress.
Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Seghetti, Lisa M.; ViƱa, Stephen R. & Ester, Karma
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: May 4, 2006
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library