Soil and Water Conservation Issues (open access)

Soil and Water Conservation Issues

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Date: July 8, 2003
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Population Assistance and Family Planning Programs: Issues for Congress (open access)

Population Assistance and Family Planning Programs: Issues for Congress

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Date: July 8, 2003
Creator: Nowels, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
First Responder Initiative: Policy Issues and Options (open access)

First Responder Initiative: Policy Issues and Options

This report provides background information and policy analysis pertinent to proposals to restructure first responder assistance programs. Specifically, this report provides information on existing programs, appropriations, legislation in the 108th Congress, and selected policy issues. This report does not discuss all relevant policy issues, but, rather, those issues that may be germane to any significant restructuring of existing programs.
Date: July 8, 2003
Creator: Canada, Ben
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Monument Issues (open access)

National Monument Issues

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Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Hardy-Vincent, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polygraph Use by the Department of Energy: Issues for Congress (open access)

Polygraph Use by the Department of Energy: Issues for Congress

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Date: July 8, 2003
Creator: Cumming, Alfred
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kosovo and Macedonia: U.S. and Allied Military Operations (open access)

Kosovo and Macedonia: U.S. and Allied Military Operations

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Date: July 8, 2003
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Pay and Benefits: Key Questions and Answers (open access)

Military Pay and Benefits: Key Questions and Answers

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Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Goldich, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Middle East Peace Talks (open access)

The Middle East Peace Talks

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Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
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: July 8, 2004
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bosnia: U.S. Military Operations (open access)

Bosnia: U.S. Military Operations

This report outlines U.S. military operations in Bosnia and discusses issues such as U.S. and Allied Participation in Bosnia Peacekeeping (IFOR/SFOR), duration, cost, arms control and military assistance. This report also includes most recent development, background analysis, and legislation.
Date: July 8, 2003
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
K-12 Teacher Quality: Issues and Legislative Action (open access)

K-12 Teacher Quality: Issues and Legislative Action

CRS Report for Congress entailing issues and legislative action in regards to K-12 teacher quality. Topics include, unionization, funding, tenure, etc..
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Stedman, James B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Act Issues in the 107th Congress (open access)

Clean Air Act Issues in the 107th Congress

In the 107th Congress, the most prominent air quality issue has been whether state and federal regulations designed to protect air quality are having a negative impact on energy production, and, if so, whether legislation should be enacted to reform such regulations. The early discussion focused primarily on California, but with the release of the Administration’s energy policy recommendations in May 2001 and subsequent congressional action, attention shifted to issues more national in scope.
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Act Issues in the 107th Congress (open access)

Clean Water Act Issues in the 107th Congress

Key water quality issues that may face the 107th Congress include: actions to implement existing provisions of the Clean Water Act (CWA), whether additional steps are necessary to achieve overall goals of the Act, and the appropriate federal role in guiding and paying for clean water activities. Legislative prospects for comprehensively amending the Act have for some time stalled over whether and exactly how to change the law. If clean water issues receive attention in the 107th Congress, consideration of specific issues will depend in part on the CWA policy agenda of the new Bush Administration and on priorities of the key committees that have major jurisdiction over the Act.
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Energy FY1999 Research and Development Budget: Description and Analysis (open access)

Department of Energy FY1999 Research and Development Budget: Description and Analysis

This report focuses on the R&D programs. It divides the programs into four categories: energy resources R&D, science, national security R&D, and environmental quality R&D. Those categories, which approximate the way DOE has divided up its programs, are set up to keep similar research activities together.(1) R&D funding is concentrated in the first three. The report gives a description of the programs within each category including their research objectives and the activities where significant budget changes were requested for FY1999. It then describes the request, and congressional appropriation and authorization action. There follows a discussion of issues about the FY1999 request that are emerging during congressional consideration of the budget.
Date: July 8, 1998
Creator: Rowberg, Richard E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Executive Branch Reorganization and Management Initiatives (open access)

Executive Branch Reorganization and Management Initiatives

This issue brief views reorganization and management as involving the alteration of the program administrative structure and operations of the executive branch for reasons of efficiency, economy, and direction. The underlying issue is who reorganizes or sets management policy—Congress or the President— and by what authority and, also, for what purpose?
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: The Presidential Coordination Office (open access)

Homeland Security: The Presidential Coordination Office

This report discusses about a presidential charter, A model and principles for success, Implications for the homeland security office, Administrative Developments and legislation.
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Auditing and Accounting Regulation: Key SEC Powers (open access)

Auditing and Accounting Regulation: Key SEC Powers

Key auditing and accounting reform legislation, S. 2673 (Sarbanes), and H.R. 3763 (Oxley), and proposals for auditor oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have been launched to help restore public confidence in a system of corporate financial accounting tainted by accounting fiascos at companies like Enron, Tyco, and Worldcom. This report provides background on significant current SEC regulatory powers in the area of accounting and auditing. It will be updated if there are changes in SEC authority.
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Shorter, Gary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russia (open access)

Russia

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Date: July 8, 2003
Creator: Goldman, Stuart D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saudi Arabia: Current Issues and U.S. Relations (open access)

Saudi Arabia: Current Issues and U.S. Relations

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Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Prados, Alfred B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2003: Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs (open access)

Appropriations for FY2003: Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Nowels, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Pay: FY 1999 Salary Adjustments (open access)

Federal Pay: FY 1999 Salary Adjustments

This report provides an overview of federal pay Salary adjustments for Fiscal Year 1999
Date: July 8, 1998
Creator: Schwemle, Barbara L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing Secrecy: Security Classification Reform - The Government Secrecy Act Proposal (open access)

Managing Secrecy: Security Classification Reform - The Government Secrecy Act Proposal

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Date: July 8, 1998
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student Loans: Proposals for Reauthorization (open access)

Student Loans: Proposals for Reauthorization

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Date: July 8, 1998
Creator: Schenet, Margot A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Border Security: U.S.-Canada Border Issues (open access)

Border Security: U.S.-Canada Border Issues

The September 11 terrorist attacks and continued threats of future attacks have directed Congress’s attention to U.S.-Canada border security-related issues. Both countries are striving to balance adequate border security with other issues such as the facilitation of legitimate cross-border travel and commerce, and protecting civil liberties. Congress has taken action (the USA PATRIOT Act, P.L. 107-56; and the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, P.L. 107-173) to increase the number of INS border patrol agents and inspectors at northern ports of entry and to provide these officials with additional technologically upgraded equipment.
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Seghetti, Lisa M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library