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Tobacco Price Support: An Overview of the Program
Over 93% of U.S. tobacco production is flue-cured and burley (both being cigarette tobacco types). These crops are particularly important to the agriculture of North Carolina (where flue-cured is grown) and Kentucky (where burley is grown). Together, these two states produce 65% of the total U.S. tobacco crop. The federal tobacco price support program is designed to support and stabilize prices for farmers. It operates through a combination of mandatory marketing quotas and nonrecourse loans. Marketing quotas limit the amount of tobacco each farmer can sell, which indirectly raises market prices. The loan program establishes guaranteed minimum prices. The law requires that the loan program operate at no net cost to the federal government. Apart from year-to-year budget impacts, no-net-cost provisions of the law are intended to assure that all loan principal plus interest will be recovered
Date:
July 6, 1998
Creator:
Womach, Jasper
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tobacco-Related Programs and Activities of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: Operation and Cost
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has long operated programs that directly assist farmers and others with the production and marketing of numerous crops, including tobacco. In most cases, the programs themselves are not controversial. Increasingly, however, where tobacco is involved, the use of federal funds is being called into question.
Date:
July 6, 1998
Creator:
Womach, Jasper
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Agriculture and the International Monetary Fund
Congress is considering legislation to provide supplemental resources to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to strengthen its ability to deal with future financial crises like those currently in Asia and in 1994-95 in Mexico. many in U.S.
Date:
July 6, 1998
Creator:
Hanrahan, Charles E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Habitat Modification and the Endangered Species Act: The Sweet Home Decision
This report discusses the Endangered Species Act, the regulation of the Fish and Wildlife Service defining "harm" for purposes of the "take" prohibitions of the Endangered Species Act.
Date:
July 6, 1995
Creator:
Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
ESEA Reauthorization Proposals: Comparison of Major Features of the House and Senate Versions of H.R. 1
The authorizations of appropriations for most programs of federal aid to elementary and secondary (grades K-12) education, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), expired at the end of FY2000. While the 106th Congress extensively considered several bills which would have reauthorized and amended most of these programs, only legislation extending the Impact Aid (ESEA Title VIII) and Even Start Family Literacy (ESEA Title I, Part B) programs was enacted. Selected other programs, such as the Class Size Reduction program, have been initiated and continued solely through annual appropriations legislation.
Date:
July 6, 2001
Creator:
Riddle, Wayne C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Summary and Comparison of the Major Agricultural Provisions of the Tobacco Settlement Policy Proposals
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Date:
July 6, 1998
Creator:
Womach, Jasper
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Compensating Farmers for the Tobacco Settlement
The legislative proposals designed to reduce smoking, primarily by teenagers, are likely to have negative economic consequences for tobacco growers and tobacco-dependent communities. This report discusses the possibility of some kind of compensation to farmers as part of the settlement package legislation.
Date:
July 6, 1998
Creator:
Womach, Jasper
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism and National Security: Issues and Trends
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Date:
July 6, 2004
Creator:
Perl, Raphael F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Internet: Status Report on Legislative Attempts to Protect Children from Unsuitable Material on the Web
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Date:
July 6, 2004
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Middle East Peace Talks
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Date:
July 6, 2004
Creator:
Migdalovitz, Carol
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Class Size Reduction Program: Background and Status
This report provides an overview of the structure and status of the CSR program, the issues raised about the program, early reports on its implementation, and relevant legislative action by the 106th Congress. It also considers emerging results from the California class size reduction effort, the state effort most closely watched by proponents and opponents of the federal CSR program.
Date:
July 6, 2000
Creator:
Stedman, James B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Overview of NEPA Requirements
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) establishes national environmental policies that apply to the federal government and also prescribes certain procedural requirements for federal agency actions. Except as otherwise provided by Congress, NEPA applies to all federal agency actions, although its requirements may vary depending on the nature of the action involved. This report provides an overview of NEPA's requirements. It is not anticipated that this report will be updated.
Date:
July 6, 2000
Creator:
Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service: A Comparison of Two Major Bills in the 105th Congress
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Date:
July 6, 1998
Creator:
Morrison, Sylvia
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
China's Changing Conditions
This report discusses congressional interest in the leadership change and economic transformation underway in China, which has grown substantially over the past two years. Leading congressional concerns focus on how economic conditions in China pose opportunities for U.S. enterprise and how the evolution of conditions in China foster U.S. security, economic, and political interests. Congressional concern with China grew in 1995 as a result of reports of the serious decline in the health of senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.
Date:
July 6, 1995
Creator:
Sutter, Robert G.; Kan, Shirley A. & Dumbaugh, Kerry
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Community Services Block Grants: Background and Current Legislation
This report provides background on the Community Services Block Grants (CSBG) and related activities, including information on funding, and tracks the progress of relevant legislation and appropriations measures.
Date:
July 6, 1998
Creator:
Spar, Karen
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
State Revenue from Estate, Inheritance, and Gift Taxes
None
Date:
July 6, 2001
Creator:
Maguire, Steven
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Level of Taxes in the United States, 1940-2003
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Date:
July 6, 2004
Creator:
Brumbaugh, David L. & Richards, Don C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Internet Privacy: Overview and Pending Legislation
None
Date:
July 6, 2004
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chinese Missile and Nuclear Proliferation: Issues for Congress
The President has identified proliferation as a primary danger to U.S. security interests. China has contributed to the danger by providing nuclear weapons technology to Pakistan, and other nuclear technology to Iran and Algeria. China has also supplied CSS-2 intermediate-range ballistic missiles to Saudi Arabia, Silkworm anti-ship missiles to Iran and Iraq, and ballistic missile technology to Pakistan and perhaps Iran, North Korea, and others. China developed the mobile, solid-fuel M-9 and M-11 short-range ballistic missiles reportedly with Pakistan, Syria, and Iran as interested buyers.
Date:
July 6, 1995
Creator:
Shuey, Robert & Kan, Shirley A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Bunker Busters": Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Issues, FY2005 and FY2006
The Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) program has been the most controversial nuclear weapon program in Congress for the last several years. Supporters argue that it is needed to attack hard and deeply buried targets (such as leadership bunkers) in countries of concern, thereby deterring or defeating challenges from such nations; critics assert that RNEP would lower the threshold for use of nuclear weapons and prompt other nations to develop nuclear weapons to deter U.S. attack. This report presents a brief technical background on RNEP, then discusses the history of RNEP in Congress and the Administration for the FY2005 and FY2006 budget cycles.
Date:
July 6, 2005
Creator:
Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act
This report discusses how and when the USA PATRIOT ACT P.L. 107-56 applies to libraries and bookstores under Section 215 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence planned legislation to permanently rework Section 215 which was set to expire on December 31, 2005. Updated July 6, 2005.
Date:
July 6, 2005
Creator:
Doyle, Charles
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
SCHIP Financing: Funding Projections and State Redistribution Issues
None
Date:
July 6, 2005
Creator:
Peterson, Chris L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Supreme Court Appointment Process: Roles of the President, Judiciary Committee, and Senate
None
Date:
July 6, 2005
Creator:
Rutkus, Denis Steven
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
United Nations Peacekeeping: Issues for Congress
None
Date:
July 6, 2005
Creator:
Browne, Marjorie Ann
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library