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America's Growing Current Account Deficit: Its Cause and What It Means for the Economy
This report discusses the reasons for the U.S. current account deficit, popularly known as the trade deficit, and which is on the rise.
Date:
December 27, 2002
Creator:
Labonte, Marc & Makinen, Gail
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
None
Date:
December 27, 2002
Creator:
Bamberger, Robert L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2003: Energy and Water Development
Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Energy and Water.
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E. & Humphries, Marc
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:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Cantor, Joseph E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Grants to State and Local Governments: Overview and Characteristics
Each fiscal year, Congress appropriates funds for grants to state and local governments to further national goals and assist state and local government operations. Examples of goals include attaining minimum national standards and improving program effectiveness. The federal government provides grants for numerous substantive purposes, such as crime prevention, community development, and transportation. In FY2001, grants to state and local governments totaled $317 billion. Grants can be classified by the substantive purposes they address. This report, however, reviews the fundamental characteristics by which they can also be classified. Examples of grant characteristics include range of eligible activities, objectives, award process, and administrative requirements.
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Canada, Ben
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2003
This report provides an overview of Federal Research and Development funding for FY2003.
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Davey, Michael E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
First Responder Initiative: Policy Issues and Options
None
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Canada, Ben
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Act of 2002: Tort Liability Provisions
The Homeland Security Act of 2002, P.L. 107-296 (H.R. 5005), contains the following provisions that limit tort liability, and this report examines each of them 1) Section 304,863,8901201,1402,1714-1717.
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Cohen, Henry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Internet Privacy: Overview and Pending Legislation
None
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Item Veto and Expanded Impoundment Proposals
In recent years conflicting budget priorities and divided political control have accentuated the institutional tensions between the executive and legislative branches inherent in the federal budget process. President Clinton, like his two predecessors, called for an item veto, or possibly expanded impoundment authority, to provide him with greater control over federal spending. This report provides a brief history of impoundment and discusses the debate surrounding the line item veto.
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
McMurtry, Virginia A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Juvenile Justice Legislation: Overview and the Legislative Debate
None
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
O'Bryant, JoAnne; Teasley, David & Cooper, Edith Fairman
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Procedure in Congress: Basic Sources for Congressional Staff
None
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Greenfield, Susan Watkins
System:
The UNT Digital Library
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program
None
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Niksch, Larry A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Powerplants: Vulnerability to Terrorist Attack
None
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): Background and Issues in the 107th Congress
None
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Public (BLM) Lands and National Forests
None
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Gorte, Ross W. & Hardy-Vincent, Carol
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. International Trade: Data and Forecasts
None
Date:
November 27, 2002
Creator:
Nanto, Dick K. & Lum, Thomas
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Combating Terrorism: 2001 Congressional Debate on Emergency Supplemental Allocations
This report contains the 2001 Congressional debate on emergency supplemental allocations in combating terrorism, after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Date:
September 27, 2002
Creator:
Belasco, Amy & Nowels, Larry
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dairy Policy Issues
Several dairy issues that were debated during the 108th Congress are expected to continue as issues of interest in the 109th Congress. Separate bills were introduced in the 108th Congress to extend authority for both the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) Program and the dairy forward pricing pilot program, and to address dairy producer concerns about the importation of milk protein concentrates.
Date:
September 27, 2002
Creator:
Chite, Ralph M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Economic Effects of 9/11: A Retrospective Assessment
None
Date:
September 27, 2002
Creator:
Makinen, Gail
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Government Debt: Its Size and Economic Significance
None
Date:
September 27, 2002
Creator:
Cashell, Brian W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
German Elections of 2002: Aftermath and Implications for the United States
None
Date:
September 27, 2002
Creator:
Miko, Francis T.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Weapons Threat, Compliance, Sanctions, and U.S. Policy
None
Date:
September 27, 2002
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
None
Date:
September 27, 2002
Creator:
Niksch, Larry A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library