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Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill: Fact Sheet on Structure, Content, and Process
This report discusses the legislative branch appropriations bill, which is one of the regular appropriations bills that Congress normally enacts each year for the fiscal year beginning on October 1. The report provides budget authority, which is statutory authority to spend specified amounts of money, for expenditures of the legislative branch for the fiscal year, including salaries.
Date:
December 30, 1999
Creator:
Tong, Lorraine H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Nonproliferation Issues
None
Date:
December 30, 2002
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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:
December 30, 2002
Creator:
Cantor, Joseph E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Immigration and Naturalization Service: Restructuring Proposals in the 107th Congress
None
Date:
December 30, 2002
Creator:
Seghetti, Lisa M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Unemployment Benefits: Legislative Issues in the 107th Congress
None
Date:
December 30, 2002
Creator:
Franco, Celinda
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Waste Trade and the Basel Convention: Background and Update
The United States played a major role in developing the 1989 United Nations-sponsored Basel Convention on the Control of the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, a key purpose of which is to protect countries from receiving unwanted shipments of wastes. The Convention entered into force in 1992, and by mid-1998, 121 countries (but not the United States) had ratified it. In 1991, the Bush Administration transmitted the Convention to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification aid offered implementing legislation. The Senate consented to ratification in 1992; however, implementing legislation has not been enacted. (Although existing U.S. law regulates hazardous waste,
Date:
December 30, 1998
Creator:
Tiemann, Mary
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Telemarketing: Dealing With Unwanted Telemarketing Calls
This report provides summaries of the federal laws and regulations particular to telemarketing, the establishment of a national do-not-call registry, and the options that are available to consumers to limit the calls that they receive from telemarketers and to report questionable telemarketing practices to local or federal authorities. The report also lists sources of additional information with addresses, phone numbers, and Internet sites (if available).
Date:
December 30, 2002
Creator:
Riehl, James R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
HIV/AIDS International Programs: Appropriations, FY2003-FY2005
On December 8th, 2004, President Bush signed into law the conference version of the FY2005 Consolidated Appropriations. The bill provides $2.9 billion for international AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria programs- somewhat more than the Administration's request of $2.8 billion.
Date:
December 30, 2004
Creator:
Copson, Raymond W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federalism: Selected Opinions of Judge Samuel Alito
This report discusses several opinions Judge Samuel Alito has written regarding federalism.
Date:
December 30, 2005
Creator:
Thomas, Kenneth R. & Tatelman, Todd B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Security Whistleblowers
Report on the issue of how to protect employees who are willing to alert Congress about agency wrongdoing.
Date:
December 30, 2005
Creator:
Fisher, Louis
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Veterans Benefits Issues in the 109th Congress
This report presents a brief overview of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs for veterans as well as some of the issues that have been or likely will be subjects of congressional attention during the 109th Congress. In particular, it outlines the veterans benefits provisions that have seen legislative action. Issues concerning the Veterans Health Administration and health care issues are discussed in a companion report, CRS Report RL32961, Veterans’ Health Care Issues in the 109th Congress, by Sidath Viranga Panangala.
Date:
December 30, 2005
Creator:
Graney, Paul J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Changing World of Financial Intermediaries and Related Institutions: Survey of Major Developments and Their Implications for Public Policy
Inflation, high and variable interest rates, and new electronic technology have had a profound impact on financial institutions throughout the world. This report surveys how the various kinds of financial institutions in the United States have been affected by these developments, how they have reacted, what major legislative action has been taken, and what policy issues remain.
Date:
December 30, 1982
Creator:
Allen, Julius W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
World news of the week, Monday, Dec. 30, 1940, volume 3, no. 17.
Illustrated color map with textual news highlights for the week of December 20 to December 26, 1940.
Date:
December 30, 1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
State-Local Revenue Systems and Educational Finance
Research report prepared for the President's Commission on School Finance outlining various ways that funding is allocated for schools and possible areas of reform, organized in four major chapters: [1] State-Local Revenue Systems and Educational Finance, [2] The Present State-Local Revenue System, [3] Achieving a Heavy-Duty State-Local Revenue System, and [4] A High Quality State-Local Revenue System -- The Prospects for Adoption. It also includes several appendices with supplementary information.
Date:
December 30, 1971
Creator:
United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Health and Safety Laboratory Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report: September 1, 1961 - December 1, 1961
Report that summarizes multiple laboratories' reports on global fallout deposition. Reports include data on Strontium-90 deposition recorded by the Health and Safety Laboratory, data from other laboratories, related interpretive reports, and recent publications related to fallout.
Date:
December 30, 1961
Creator:
Hardy, Edward P., Jr.; Rivera, Joseph & Frankel, Robert
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 52, Pages 8745-9080, December 30, 2005
A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date:
December 30, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Propulsion of Vessels.
Patent for improvement in vibrating propellers with continued paddle action that can be attached to a line of boats.
Date:
December 30, 1873
Creator:
Macowitzky, Charles P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Attachments for Cultivators.
Patent for "a fan or blower conjoined with a box containing any of the various powdered poisons used for destroying vermin which infest growing plants, as cotton, potatoes, &c., operated by a pulley and band, running from the axle of the blower to a wheel on the supporting-axle of the cultivator, seeder, or other machine to which the apparatus may be attached." (Lines 19-27) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 30, 1873
Creator:
Hurd, Charles T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the draw-head provided with a flange upon one of its sides, ways for securing said draw-head in place and allowing it a longitudinal movement, an abutment which is secured to said ways upon one side, a hook which is pivoted in the draw-head on the side opposite to the flange, which hook is provided with a weight for keeping it normally closed, and which has a notch formed upon its pivotal end, and a latch which is pivoted to one side of the draw-head" (lines 64-74).
Date:
December 30, 1884
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire Extinguisher.
Patent for a new and improved fire extinguisher. This design is "to provide for automatically putting out a fire in any building in which [the] apparatus may be located, upon the temperature in said building or room reaching any predetermined degree. This result is accomplished by the action of an expansible fluid—such as mercury—in a contained vessel, which actuates certain . . . mechanism, causing the structure to be flooded with water or with a fire-extinguishing gas or fluid" (lines 22-32).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Fuller, Wily Scott
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design utilizes a strap-iron binder with notches along the sides that allow for a bail to clamp firmly within them; thus, the bale is fastened.
Date:
December 30, 1879
Creator:
Johnson, Jordan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher for stretching wire to build fences.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Burdick, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine.
Patent for a type writing machine that is small and portable, including illustrations.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Depuy, Gilbert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine for the Blind
Patent for "an improvement in machines for the production of writings for the blind, under what is technically termed the point system" (lines 8-11).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Sthreshley, Lizzie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History