Medicare: Payments for Covered Prescription Drugs (open access)

Medicare: Payments for Covered Prescription Drugs

This report provides an overview of the payments for covered prescription drugs for Medicare.
Date: May 21, 2002
Creator: O'Sullivan, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taiwan’s December 2001 Elections (open access)

Taiwan’s December 2001 Elections

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Date: May 10, 2002
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Taxation and the United Nations: A Review of Proposals (open access)

Global Taxation and the United Nations: A Review of Proposals

A discussion of the possibility of the United Nations promoting and planning imposition of international taxation on U.N. member states, including the United States was initiated in response to the March 2002 U.N.-sponsored International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico.
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Browne, Marjorie Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
Election Reform Legislation: Comparison of House and Senate Versions of H.R. 3295 (open access)

Election Reform Legislation: Comparison of House and Senate Versions of H.R. 3295

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Date: May 15, 2002
Creator: Fischer, Eric A. & Coleman, Kevin J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment (open access)

Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment

This report provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment -- of the ways that the Supreme Court has interpreted the guarantee of freedom of speech and press to provide no protection or only limited protection for some types of speech.
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discretionary Spending Limits for FY2002: A Procedural Assessment (open access)

Discretionary Spending Limits for FY2002: A Procedural Assessment

This report discusses discretionary spending, which is provided in annual appropriations acts, is constrained in part by limits set in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
Date: May 23, 2002
Creator: Keith, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Privacy Protection for Online Information (open access)

Privacy Protection for Online Information

This report focuses on one aspect of online privacy – collection, use, and dissemination of data via the Internet, and discusses related federal privacy laws and selected legislation.
Date: May 21, 2002
Creator: Stevens, Gina Marie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Provisions of the Farm Bill: Comparison of Current Law with House and Senate Bills (open access)

Energy Provisions of the Farm Bill: Comparison of Current Law with House and Senate Bills

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Date: May 7, 2002
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Tort Reform Legislation: Constitutionality and Summaries of Selected Statutes (open access)

Federal Tort Reform Legislation: Constitutionality and Summaries of Selected Statutes

This report considers the constitutionality of federal tort reform legislation, such as the products liability and medical malpractice reform proposals that have been introduced for the last several Congresses.
Date: May 23, 2002
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Origination Clause of the U.S. Constitution: Interpretation and Enforcement (open access)

The Origination Clause of the U.S. Constitution: Interpretation and Enforcement

This report analyzes congressional and court precedents regarding bills under Article I, Section 7, clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution (known as the Origination Clause). It also describes the various ways in which the Origination Clause has been enforced and looks at the application of the Clause to other types of legislation.
Date: May 10, 2002
Creator: Saturno, James V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public Printing Reform: Issues and Actions (open access)

Public Printing Reform: Issues and Actions

The Government Printing Office (GPO) is designated the principal agent for almost all federal government printing. This report reviews recent legal, management, policy, and technological challenges to the GPO printing system and public printing reform efforts of the 105th, 106th, and current Congresses, and tracks current efforts to address existing problems in this area.
Date: May 10, 2002
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Shipbuilding: Recent Shipyard Mergers – Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Shipbuilding: Recent Shipyard Mergers – Background and Issues for Congress

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Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized System of Preferences (open access)

Generalized System of Preferences

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Date: May 10, 2002
Creator: Cooper, William H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hate Crimes: Summary of Selected Proposals and Congressional Authority (open access)

Hate Crimes: Summary of Selected Proposals and Congressional Authority

This report is a summary and comparison of the selected proposals, which includes a discussion of the constitutional basis that might be claimed or challenged with respect to the federal crimes they create.
Date: May 17, 2002
Creator: Doyle, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed and Actual Budget Totals for the Fiscal Years 1980 Through 2001 (open access)

Proposed and Actual Budget Totals for the Fiscal Years 1980 Through 2001

This report contains a table of proposed, estimated, and actual budget totals for the fiscal years 1980 through 2001. The totals used in the report are based on total receipts and total outlays, not on proposed or approved annual appropriations which provide only a portion of the government's annual spending budget.
Date: May 8, 2002
Creator: Winters, Philip D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pay-As-You-Go Requirement for FY2002: A Procedural Assessment (open access)

Pay-As-You-Go Requirement for FY2002: A Procedural Assessment

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Date: May 23, 2002
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa: Scaling Up the Response To the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (open access)

Africa: Scaling Up the Response To the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

This report summarizes the AIDS pandemic in Africa and how to respond to the issue. Moreover, the report considers the necessary amount of donations, and how much has currently been donated. The report also covers the multiple dimensions to solving the issue by labeling them as prevention, care, and treatment.
Date: May 29, 2002
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm Commodity Legislation: Chronology, 1933-2002 (open access)

Farm Commodity Legislation: Chronology, 1933-2002

This report provides a brief chronology of key commodity support laws since 1933 generally excludes legislation with provisions devoted mainly to disaster-related farm assistance.
Date: May 31, 2002
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
China’s Banking Reforms: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

China’s Banking Reforms: Background and Issues for Congress

This report is on China’s Banking Reforms: Background and Issues for Congress.
Date: May 22, 2002
Creator: Nanto, Dick K. & Sinha, Radha
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arms Control and Strategic Nuclear Weapons: Unilateral vs. Bilateral Reductions (open access)

Arms Control and Strategic Nuclear Weapons: Unilateral vs. Bilateral Reductions

This report contains the unilateral and bilateral reductions on the arms control and strategic nuclear weapons.
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sierra Leone: Transition to Peace (open access)

Sierra Leone: Transition to Peace

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Date: May 15, 2002
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
World Bank: Funding IDA’s Assistance Program (open access)

World Bank: Funding IDA’s Assistance Program

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Date: May 21, 2002
Creator: Sanford, Jonathan E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
RICO: Legislative Activity in the 107th Congress (open access)

RICO: Legislative Activity in the 107th Congress

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Date: May 6, 2002
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library