The United States has become an information society. Government at every level and private industry have been collecting and using more personal information about individuals in the last several years than ever before. The Congress has been aware of this trend, and of the potencia1 for misuse of the information so collected; it has enacted several laws that protect the personal privacy of individuals, and respect the confidentiality of the information maintained about individuals by third parties. In this report, several privacy laws are summarized, and key provisions of each are compared, in order to make individual citizens aware of their rights , responsibilities and remedies under the law.

This report discusses child abuse legislation in United States, child abuse prevention and treatment, incidence of child abuse and neglect. The report provides a summary of major legislation in the 1st session of the 95th congress.

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From Summary: A number of groups currently compile and publish selected voting records of the Members of Congress based on issues of importance to each particular group. This is a list of these organizations, giving the name, address, telephone number, name of publication, focus of interest, and frequency of publication.

This report is about the national health planning and resources development act of 1974.

This report is about the proposed revisions in federal disaster assistance for the agriculture field.

This report is about the development of small-scale Hydroelectric power stations.

This report is about the reform of national water policy and factor which are used to consider projects as most worthy.

This report is on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Assistance: Federal Organization and Programs.

This report surveys difficulties in establishing valid estimates concerning the cost of federal regulations.

This report addresses the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which was created in 1972 as a two-year program to make supplemental foods available to pregnant and lactating women, infants, and to children who were determined by competent professionals to be nutritional risks because of inadequate income.

This report discusses the background of Native American claims to their aboriginal lands in the United States.

This report consists of how to prepare a legislative history.

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This report examines three basic solutions to satisfy the Navy's requirement.

This report exists to explain what the The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, Public Law 95-242 does by outlining the ideal use of nuclear energy implicit in the legislation and then explains the major parts of the act itself.

This report is an analysis of the President's Federal Water Policy initiatives of June 6, 1978. Recommendations were made on conservation, cost-sharing, planning procedures, and environmental protection.

This report discusses amnesty for Vietnam draft violators and provides background on this constitutional question.

This report provides a history of the creation of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, the Code of Official Conduct, and the financial disclosure rules.

This report provides information about community health centers which treat mentally ill persons in their own community.

This report is about the U.S relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

This report talks about the Inflation and Government Policy.

This report is about Electronic Fund Transfers. A discussion and analysis of the national commision on electronic funds transfer's final report.