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Consumer Bankruptcy Reform: Proposals Before the 105th Congress
This report examines current consumer bankruptcy practice and the proposals set forth in the reform bills. Also considered are the legislative history of the current consumer bankruptcy scheme, and topics likely to be debated as Congress proceeds to consider consumer bankruptcy reform.
Date:
March 20, 1998
Creator:
Jeweler, Robin
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mexico's Counter-Narcotics Efforts Under Zedillo, December 1994 to March 1998
None
Date:
March 4, 1998
Creator:
Storrs, K. Larry
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Independent Counsel Provisions: An Overview of the Operation of the Law
None
Date:
March 20, 1998
Creator:
Maskell, Jack
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NATO's Evolving Role and Missions
None
Date:
March 13, 1998
Creator:
Sloan, Stanley R. & Forrest, J. Michelle
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
China and U.S. Missile Defense Proposals: Reactions and Implications
The Chinese government has strongly criticized U.S. announcements that it will develop or assist in deploying missile defense systems involving cooperation with U.S. allies in East Asia, and reports of such possible U.S. cooperation with Taiwan. For those in the United States, the U.S. plans have many perceived disadvantages and advantages;1 the latter include notably providing degrees of protection for the United States and its allies against ballistic missile attack. Many in China believe that proposed U.S. development and deployment of ballistic missile defenses at home and in East Asia pose potentially serious complications for China’s ability to use its nuclear weapons to deter possible U.S. pressure and aggression, and to use Chinese ballistic missile capability to exert leverage over Japan, Taiwan, and others in East Asia.
Date:
March 17, 1999
Creator:
Sutter, Robert G.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty: Overview of Recent Events
None
Date:
March 19, 1999
Creator:
Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Drunk Driving: Should Each State Be Required to Enact a 0.08 Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) Law?
At the 0.08 BAC level of alcohol, braking, steering, lane changing, and judgment are degraded and the driving performance of virtually all drivers is substantially impaired. During the debate on reauthorization of the federal surface transportation programs, an amendment that would require each state either to enact a 0.08 BAC law or face the loss of a portion of its Federal Highway Trust Fund monies passed the Senate and will likely be considered in the House. This proposal raises questions about the effectiveness and impacts of a 0.08 BAC law, the rights of states versus the federal government, and alternative ways to encourage the states to adopt stronger impaired driving countermeasures.
Date:
March 27, 1998
Creator:
Rothberg, Paul F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Drug Certification of Mexico in 1999: Arguments For and Against Congressional Resolutions of Disapproval
This report presents arguments for and against congressional resolutions to disapprove President Clinton’s February 26, 1999 certification of Mexico as a fully cooperative country in efforts to control illicit narcotics.1 These resolutions (H.J.Res. 35--Bachus, and H.J.Res. 43--Mica and Gilman) would disapprove the President’s certification, but would permit him to avoid withholding of assistance to Mexico if he determined that vital national interests required such assistance.
Date:
March 30, 1999
Creator:
Storrs, K. Larry
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Japan's Economy: From Bubble to Bust
In the 1980s, Japan's economy posted strong economic growth, in stark contrast to the more pedestrian growth other developed economies experienced. In this period, referred to as the "bubble" economy, Japan experienced a sharp increase in the values of land and stocks. The fast paced growth came to a halt in 1991, however, as the Ministry of Finance grew concerned over prospects of a rising rate of inflation, and, accordingly, tightened the nation's money supply. Since then, Japanese economic growth has fallen sharply and the economy has experienced asset deflation, rising levels of unemployment, and falling corporate profits and investments.
Date:
March 8, 1994
Creator:
Jackson, James K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Japan's Budget: Role in Economic Policymaking
The Japanese economy has been in recession for three years, making it the longest recession in Japan's post-war experience. Groups within and outside Japan are calling on Japan to adopt aggressive fiscal policy measures to boost the Japanese economy and to aid in the recovery of the world economy. Japan has enacted a number of limited measures to stimulate, but it is unlikely to move more aggressively to adopt deficit-financing measures to stimulate its economy for a number of reasons: political and government leaders oppose deficit financing in principle; and under present economic conditions, Japanese officials are more concerned with the effects a fiscal stimulus program will have on the yen, on Japan's trade account, and on its economic recovery.
Date:
March 29, 1994
Creator:
Jackson, James K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Voter Eligibility Verification Pilot Program
None
Date:
March 20, 1998
Creator:
Coleman, Kevin J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FEMA and Disaster Relief
This document describes the aid of 3.1 billion President Clinton has requested for FEMA. Past funds were brought up throughout the year and shows how this number is low for the needs of FEMA. The document lists needs and what all FEMA helps along with assistance under the Stafford Act.
Date:
March 6, 1998
Creator:
Bea, Keith
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Naval Petroleum Reserves: Proposed Sale and Issues
The Naval Petroleum Reserves (NPR)--consisting of the large Elk Hills Field in California and smaller fields at Buena Vista Hills (CA) and Teapot Dome (WY)--were established in the early 1900s. Congress authorized full production of the NPR in 1976. Production at Elk Hills, the most significant field, peaked at 181,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 1981; currently, it is 65,000 b/d. The Clinton Administration earmarked the NPR for sale in its FY1996 budget, estimating its gross value at $2.6 billion.
Date:
March 14, 1996
Creator:
Bamberger, Robert L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Tax Treatment of Alternative Transportation Fuels
Historically, federal energy policy, including energy tax policy, promoted the development of oil and gas at the expense of alternative fuels and nonconventional forms of energy. Beginning in the 1970s, there was a shift in the focus of energy tax policy away from oil and gas toward energy conservation and toward the development of alternative fuels and nonconventional forms of energy.
Date:
March 19, 1997
Creator:
Lazzari, Salvatore
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Transportation Fuel Taxes Early in the 105th Congress
The 105th Congress has reinstated for about half a year the federal excise taxes on fuel used by noncommercial aviation. This follows a similar move by the 104th Congress on aviation fuel taxes, and actions pertaining to the tax on diesel fuel used in recreational motorboats, and to the fuel tax credits given to first purchasers of diesel-powered cars and light trucks. The 104th Congress also debated repeal of the increase of 4.3 cents per gallon in transportation fuel taxes imposed by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (OBRA93) (P.L. 103-66), but no new law resulted.
Date:
March 17, 1997
Creator:
Gelb, Bernard A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
DOE Environmental Technology Department - A Fact Sheet
The Department of Energy (DOE) established the Office of Technology Development in 1989 to develop faster and less expensive technical solutions to the Department's widespread environmental problems, primarily the legacy of decades of nuclear weapons production. Without new environmental technologies, DOE contends, some types of contamination may prove impossible to clean up. The Office of Technology Development, which is part of DOE's Environmental Management Program (EM), manages all stages of the development of new environmental restoration and waste management technologies, from basic research and development through final testing, demonstration and evaluation.
Date:
March 11, 1994
Creator:
Holt, Mark
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Act Issues in the 105th Congress
This Issue Brief discusses clean air issues that arose in the 105th Congress. CRS Issue Brief IB10004 addresses the 106th Congress.
Date:
March 3, 1999
Creator:
McCarthy, James E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Commerce Clause as a Limit on Congressional Power to Protect the Environment
Several times during the 1990s the Supreme Court struck down federal enactments as exceeding Congress' power under the Commerce Clause or Tenth Amendment. This report briefly reviews three of these decisions -- United States v. Lopez, New York v. United States, and Printz v. United States. Its focus, however, is how these cases have played out in subsequent lower-court challenges to federal environmental laws. The report shows that Supreme Court rulings in favor of these states notwithstanding, such laws have generally, though not always, been found within Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment limits.
Date:
March 12, 1999
Creator:
Meltz, Robert
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Summaries of Major Laws Implemented by the National Marine Fisheries Service
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is located within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Department of Commerce. NOAA and NMFS were created by President Nixon's Reorganization Plan No. 4 of July 9, 1970 (84 Stat. 2090). Programs now comprising NMFS had previously been located in the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries within U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in the Department of the Interior.
Date:
March 24, 1995
Creator:
Buck, Eugene H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The National Institutes of Health: An Overview
None
Date:
March 13, 1998
Creator:
Smith, Pamela W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Small Business Administration: Overview and Issues
None
Date:
March 10, 1998
Creator:
Mulock, Bruce K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Government Performance and Results Act: Implementation and Issues of Possible Concern, 106th Congress
Most federal agencies have submitted their second performance plans (for FY2000) that were mandated by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, P.L. 103-62. The GAO and congressional groups have assessed implementation activities
Date:
March 30, 1999
Creator:
Knezo, Genevieve J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Government Performance and Results Act: Implementation During 1997 and Issues of Possible Concern, 105th Congress, Second Session
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, P.L. 103-62, also called the “Results Act,” and GPRA. A government-wide performance plan was submitted with the President’s FY1999 budget. Congressional hearings have been held on implementation of GPRA, and the General Accounting Office and congressional groups have assessed initial activities. Most strategic plans have been criticized for not conveying required analyses of the linkage between strategic goals and annual goals and measures, of resources needed to achieve goals, of data systems capabilities, and of interagency coordination on similar programs.
Date:
March 6, 1998
Creator:
Knezo, Genevieve J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Government Performance and Results Act: Proposed Amendments (H.R. 2883)
The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (107 Stat. 285), referred to alternatively as GPRA or the Results Act, seeks to encourage greater efficiency, effectiveness and accountability in federal spending by requiring agencies to develop strategic plans and performance measures, and to prepare annual performance plans and reports. GPRA supplements a number of other budget, accounting, and financial management laws designed to upgrade existing procedures or to provide new mechanisms for managing government operations and improving accountability
Date:
March 17, 1998
Creator:
Kaiser, Frederick M. & McMurtry, Virginia A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library