This table can be used to calculate the 2017 Base Case emissions and produce a flat file for air quality modeling.

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the LX(R) amphibious ship program, a Navy program to build a new class of 11 amphibious ships. The Navy wants to procure the first LX(R) in FY2020.

In 2015, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Young v. United Parcel Service. In the case, a United Parcel Service (UPS) worker named Peggy Young challenged her employer’s refusal to grant her a light-duty work assignment while she was pregnant, claiming that UPS’s actions violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). This report begins with a discussion of the facts in the Young case, followed by an overview of the PDA. The report then provides an analysis of the Young case, its implications, and a potential legislative response.

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This report consists of altering house ethics committee sanction recommendations on the floor: Past Precedent and Options for Action.

This report discusses general debate, which is a period of time set aside for debating the merits of the bill as a whole, the state of current law on the subject of the bill, the need for new legislation, the various provisions of the bill, and possible amendments to it.

This report discusses the amendments, which are usually considered not in the House, but in the Committee of the Whole, a parliamentary device designed to expedite the amendment process.

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This report consists of amendments on the house floor: Summary of Major Restrictions.

This report contains the safety valve and substantial assistance exceptions on the federal mandatory minimum sentences.

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This report gives a brief overview of the designation, management, and funding of rivers in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

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This report briefly describes the regulatory programs at issue in the two World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute before analyzing how the WTO's Appellate Body applied Article 2.1 of the TBT Agreement in U.S. -COOL and U.S. -Tuna II. The report takes an in-depth look at the test established by the Appellate Body for determining whether a measure is impermissibly discriminatory. Finally, the report provides a brief description of how the United States amended these programs in response to the WTO decisions, and explains why subsequent WTO rulings found that the amended programs still failed to comply with international trade obligations.

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This report begins with a discussion of the challenges facing the trust fund financing system (which supports both federal highway and public transportation programs) and then explores possible options for financing surface transportation programs) and then explores possible options for financing surface transportation infrastructure.

This report revolves around the contentious issue of admitting privileges as can be seen in Whole Woman's Health v. Cole. The report also includes information on how admitting privileges have been used to impose an undue burden on a woman's ability to seek abortions.

This report discusses how drought is defined and why drought occurs in the United States. It also discusses how droughts are classified and what is meant by moderate, severe, and extreme drought classifications. The report briefly describes periods of drought in the country's past that equaled or exceeded drought conditions experienced during the 20th century.

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This report provides information about The Budget Control Act of 2011. The BCA provides Legislative Changes to the Law and Their Budgetary Effects.

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.