Collection
Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
94
Congressional Research Service Reports
69
Texas Laws and Resolutions Archive
58
Government Accountability Office Reports
29
Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission
4
Texas Attorney General Opinions
4
CyberCemetery
1
Texas Register
1
260 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Results:
1 - 24 of
260
next
Medicare Provisions in the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (BIPA, P.L. 106-554)
None
Date:
May 24, 2001
Creator:
Chaikind, Hinda Ripps; Tilson, Sibyl L.; O'Sullivan, Jennifer; Merck, Carolyn L. & Smith, Madeleine T.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Animal Agriculture: Issues in the 107th Congress
A variety of animal agriculture issues, including prices, the impact of consolidation in the meat production/packing industry, trade, and the environmental impacts of large feedlots, continue to generate interest in Congress. This issue brief discusses these issues, as well as the 2002 farm bill, which contains several provisions affecting animal agriculture, including protections for contract growers, disaster assistance, country-of-origin labeling, and increased funding for conservation purposes.
Date:
May 24, 2002
Creator:
Heykoop, Jerry
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Arms Control: The U.S.-Russian Agenda
None
Date:
May 24, 2002
Creator:
Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Treatment of Prisoners in Iraq: Selected Legal Issues
None
Date:
May 24, 2004
Creator:
Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. National Science Foundation: An Overview
None
Date:
May 24, 2004
Creator:
Matthews, Christine M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Meat and Poultry Inspection Issues
This report discusses the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) responsibility for inspecting most meat, poultry, and processed egg products for safety, wholesomeness, and proper labeling while detailing the results of congressional action in reducing the presence of pathogens and food-borne illness in facilities and food products.
Date:
May 24, 2002
Creator:
Rawson, Jean M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Saudi Arabia: Current Issues and U.S. Relations
None
Date:
May 24, 2002
Creator:
Prados, Alfred B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: Issues for the 107th Congress
This report examines the economic and political situation in Cuba, including the human rights situation, and U.S. policy toward Cuba. The report also analyzes a number of issues facing Congress in U.S. policy toward Cuba, including: the overall direction of U.S. policy; challenges to U.S. policy in the World Trade Organization; restrictions on commercial food and medical exports; restrictions on travel; bilateral drug trafficking cooperation; Cuba and terrorism; funding for U.S.-government sponsored radio and television broadcasting to Cuba; the Russian signals intelligence facility in Cuba; migration issues; and compensation to the families of those Americans killed in 1996 when Cuba shot down two U.S. civilian planes. The report cites legislation that was passed in the 106th Congress, and also tracks legislative action on these various issues in U.S. policy toward Cuba in the 107th Congress.
Date:
May 24, 2002
Creator:
Sullivan, Mark P. & Taft-Morales, Maureen
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Internships and Fellowships: Congressional, Federal, and Other Work Experience Opportunities
None
Date:
May 24, 2002
Creator:
Greenfield, Susan Watkins
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trade and the Americas
None
Date:
May 24, 2002
Creator:
Ahearn, Raymond J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program
Most current U.S. nuclear warheads were built in the 1980s, and are being retained longer than was planned. Yet warheads deteriorate with age and must be maintained. The current approach monitors them for signs of aging. When problems are found, a Life Extension Program (LEP) rebuilds components. While some can be made to new specifications, a nuclear test moratorium bars that approach for critical components that would require a nuclear test. Instead, LEP rebuilds them as closely as possible to original specifications. Using this approach, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy have certified stockpile safety and reliability for the past nine years without nuclear testing
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Issues for Congress
This report discusses intelligence issues for Congress including coordination among intelligence agencies, terrorism, and Iraq. Updated May 24, 2005.
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Space Programs: Civilian, Military, and Commercial
None
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform
None
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Nuschler, Dawn
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment
This report provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment — of the ways that the Supreme Court has interpreted the guarantee of freedom of speech and press to provide no protection or only limited protection for some types of speech.
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Cohen, Henry
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance
None
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Grimmett, Richard F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan: Chronology of Recent Events
None
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Kronstadt, K. Alan
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues
None
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Prados, Alfred B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Russia
None
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Goldman, Stuart D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan’s Nuclear Proliferation Activities and the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission: U.S. Policy Constraints and Options
In calling for a clear, strong, and long-term commitment to the military-dominated government of Pakistan despite serious concerns about that country’s nuclear proliferation activities, The 9/11 Commission cast into sharp relief two longstanding dilemmas concerning U.S. policy towards Pakistan and South Asia. First, in an often strained security relationship spanning more than five decades, U.S. and Pakistani national security objectives have seldom been congruent. Pakistan has viewed the alliance primarily in the context of its rivalry with India, whereas American policymakers have viewed it from the perspective of U.S. global security interests.
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Cronin, Richard P.; Kronstadt, K. Alan & Squassoni, Sharon
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Public Relations and Propaganda: Restrictions on Executive Agency Activities
Controversies recently have arisen over certain executive branch agencies’ expenditures of appropriated funds on public relations activities, some of which have been characterized as propagandistic. Generally speaking, there are two legal restrictions on agency public relations activities and propaganda. 5 U.S.C. 3107 prohibits the use of appropriated funds to hire publicity experts. Appropriations law “publicity and propaganda” clauses restrict the use of funds for puffery of an agency, purely partisan communications, and covert propaganda. No federal agency monitors federal public relations activities, but a Member or Committee of Congress may ask the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine an agency’s expenditures on public relations activities with a view to their legality.
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Kosar, Kevin R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
WTO Decisions and Their Effect on U.S. Law
Congress has comprehensively dealt with the legal effect of World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements and dispute settlement results in the United States in the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), P.L. 103-465, which provides that domestic law prevails over conflicting provisions of WTO agreements and prohibits private remedies based on alleged violations of these agreements. As a result, WTO agreements and adopted WTO rulings in conflict with federal law do not have domestic legal effect unless and until Congress or the Executive Branch, as the case may be, takes action to modify or remove the statute, regulation, or regulatory practice at issue. Violative state laws may be withdrawn by the state or, in rare circumstances, invalidated through legal action by the federal government. In addition, the URAA places requirements on federal regulatory action taken to implement WTO decisions and contains provisions specific to the implementation of dispute settlement panel and appellate reports that fault U.S. actions in trade remedy proceedings.
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Grimmett, Jeanne J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Farm Promotion ("Check-Off") Programs
This report discusses the so-called beef check-off program, one of a number of generic promotion programs for beef and other agricultural products that Congress has authorized in recent decades. Supporters view check-offs as economically beneficial self-help activities that need minimal government involvement or taxpayer funding. Producers, handlers, and/or importers are required to pay an assessment, usually deducted from revenue at time of sale — thus the name check-off. However, some farmers contend they are being “taxed” for advertising and related activities they would not underwrite voluntarily.
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses
Report discussing the effects on sanctions imposed on Iran by the U.S. The report also highlights major concerns surrounding Iran's human rights practices, strict limits on democracy, and connections to Islamic extremist groups who openly oppose the U.S.-led Middle East peace process.
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library