Wheat, Feed Grains, Cotton, Rice, and Oilseeds Provisions of the Enacted 1996 Farm Bill (open access)

Wheat, Feed Grains, Cotton, Rice, and Oilseeds Provisions of the Enacted 1996 Farm Bill

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Date: May 20, 1996
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
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: May 20, 2003
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.; Corn, M. Lynne & Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crime Control Assistance Through the Byrne Programs (open access)

Crime Control Assistance Through the Byrne Programs

The statute provides that states receive and distribute block grant funds and that the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) of the U.S. Department of Justice awards discretionary grants for specified activities. Allocated largely on the basis of population, block grant funds are used for personnel, equipment, training, technical assistance, and information systems to improve criminal justice systems.
Date: May 20, 1998
Creator: Laney, Garrine P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Palestinians and Middle East Peace: Issues for the United States (open access)

Palestinians and Middle East Peace: Issues for the United States

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Date: May 20, 2002
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (open access)

Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty

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Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Project BioShield (open access)

Project BioShield

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Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Gottron, Frank
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inflation: Causes, Costs, and Current Status (open access)

Inflation: Causes, Costs, and Current Status

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Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Makinen, Gail
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Financing (open access)

Campaign Financing

This is one report in the series of reports that discuss the campaign finance practices and related issues. Concerns over financing federal elections have become a seemingly perennial aspect of our political system, centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs and reliance on interest groups for needed campaign funds. The report talks about the today’s paramount issues such as perceived loopholes in current law and the longstanding issues: overall costs, funding sources, and competition.
Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education Vouchers: Constitutional Issues and Cases (open access)

Education Vouchers: Constitutional Issues and Cases

This report details the constitutional standards that currently apply to indirect school aid programs and summarizes all of the pertinent Supreme Court decisions, with particular attention to Zelman. It also summarizes the pending case of Davey v. Locke and other recent and ongoing state and lower federal court cases concerning vouchers.
Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Ackerman, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Office: Issues and Options (open access)

Homeland Security Office: Issues and Options

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Date: May 20, 2002
Creator: Lee, Rensselaer
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uniform Standards in Private Securities Litigation: Limitations on Shareholder Lawsuits (open access)

Uniform Standards in Private Securities Litigation: Limitations on Shareholder Lawsuits

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Date: May 20, 1998
Creator: Seitzinger, Michael V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Deposit and Share Insurance: Proposals for Change (open access)

Federal Deposit and Share Insurance: Proposals for Change

This report provides information about the Proposals for Change on Federal Deposit and Share Insurance since deposit insurance for holders of accounts at banks and thrift institutions are under scrutiny for the last several congresses.
Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Jackson, William D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues (open access)

Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues

This report discusses the issue of U.S. economic assistance to sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the importance of continued assistance in light of U.S. national security and also various U.S.-led efforts to promote reform amongst African citizens themselves. U.S. assistance finds its way to Africa through a variety of channels, including the USAID-administered DA program, food aid programs, and indirect aid provided through international financial institutions and the United Nations.
Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Assistance (open access)

The Former Soviet Union and U.S. Foreign Assistance

Report covering support to Russia to support a transition to democracy and free market economics in the states of the former Soviet Union (FSU).Tthe United States, since December 1991, has offered roughly $8.2 billion in grants for economic and technical assistance to the region. Most of the grant assistance has been provided through the Agency for International Development (USAID). In addition, $4.8 billion has been provided in food aid through the Department of Agriculture, and $2.9 billion by the Department of Defense for nonproliferation purposes. The United States has also subsidized guarantees for more than $12 billion in credits from the Export-Import Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Department of Agriculture. In its FY2003 budget request, the Administration proposed funding the former Soviet Union account at $755 million, a decrease of $29 million, or 4%, from the FY2002 appropriated level of $784.
Date: May 20, 2002
Creator: Tarnoff, Curt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lebanon (open access)

Lebanon

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Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Current Issues and U.S. Policy Concerns (open access)

Afghanistan: Current Issues and U.S. Policy Concerns

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 20, 2002
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Space Programs: Civilian, Military, and Commercial (open access)

U.S. Space Programs: Civilian, Military, and Commercial

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Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons in Russia: Safety, Security, and Control Issues (open access)

Nuclear Weapons in Russia: Safety, Security, and Control Issues

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Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small-scale Terrorist Attacks Using Chemical and Biological Agents: An Assessment Framework and Preliminary Comparisons (open access)

Small-scale Terrorist Attacks Using Chemical and Biological Agents: An Assessment Framework and Preliminary Comparisons

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Date: May 20, 2004
Creator: Shea, Dana A. & Gottron, Frank
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Rules on Retiree Health Plans and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (open access)

Final Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Rules on Retiree Health Plans and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

This report discusses Final Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules on Retiree Health Plans and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
Date: May 20, 2004
Creator: Dale, Charles V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Palestinians and Middle East Peace:  Issues for the United States (open access)

Palestinians and Middle East Peace: Issues for the United States

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Date: May 20, 2004
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
India-U.S. Relations (open access)

India-U.S. Relations

This report discusses the context of India - U.S. relationship, and its bilateral issues.
Date: May 20, 2004
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human Cloning (open access)

Human Cloning

This report provides information about the Human Cloning where a human embryo produced via cloning involves the process called somatic cell nuclear transfer. The nuclear of the egg is removed and replaced with a mature body cell.
Date: May 20, 2005
Creator: Johnson, Judith A. & Williams, Erin D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues (open access)

China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues

Congress has long been concerned about whether U.S. policy advances the national interest in reducing the role of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles that could deliver them. China has taken some steps to mollify U.S. concerns about its role in weapons proliferation. Skeptics question whether China's cooperation in weapons nonproliferation has warranted President Bush's pursuit of stronger bilateral ties. This report discusses the national security problem of China's role in weapons proliferation and issues related to the U.S. policy response, including legislation, since the mid-1990s.
Date: May 20, 2004
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library