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- Requiring Disclosure of Gifts and Payments to Physicians: State Efforts and a Legal Analysis of Potential Federal Action
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- Safe Drinking Water Act: A Summary of the Act and Its Major Requirements
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- Student Loans, Student Aid, and FY2008 Budget Reconciliation
- This report reviews and briefly describes the major proposals that would change the federal student loan programs to achieve savings in mandatory spending and the proposals that would enhance student aid benefits or result in changes to existing federal student aid programs.
- Trio and GEAR UP Programs: Status and Issues
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- Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance
- This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
- Data Mining and Homeland Security: An Overview
- This report provides information about the Data Mining and Homeland Security. Data mining has become one of the key features of the homeland security initiatives. Data mining can be a potential means to identify terrorist activities such as money transfer etc.
- Expiration of the 2001 Through 2006 Tax Cuts
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- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues
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- The Kaesong North-South Korean Industrial Complex
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- The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center: Issues for Congress
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- Spectrum Management: Auctions
- This report discusses the radio frequency spectrum that is used for all forms of wireless communications, including cellular telephony, paging, personal communications service, radio and television broadcast, telephone radio relay, aeronautical and maritime radio navigation, and satellite command and control. The issues discussed here refer principally to spectrum management for terrestrial technologies.
- Technology Transfer: Use of Federally Funded Research and Development
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- Veterans’ Benefits: Issues in the 110th Congress
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- Air Force Transformation
- This report considers how the Air Force is changing itself to meet new defensive needs. The issues for Congress on this are mostly budgetary and how effective it will be.
- Amtrak: Budget and Reauthorization
- This report is on Amtrak: Budget and Reauthorization.
- Capital Punishment Overview: 2006-2007 Term of the Supreme Court
- This report provides Capital Punishment Overview during 2006-2007 Term of the Supreme Court.
- China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities — Background and Issues for Congress
- This report provides information about the Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities and Issues for Congress on China Naval Modernization since Concern has grown in congress about the china military modernization.
- Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations
- This report is a guide to the regular appropriations bills that congress considers each year.
- Cyprus: Status of U.N. Negotiations and Related Issues
- This report provides information about the Status of U.N. Negotiations and Related Issues on Cyprus.Cyprus has been divided since 1974.since the 1970s,the U.N with U.S support has promoted negotiations aimed at reuniting the island.
- The Employee Free Choice Act
- This report discusses legislative attempts to amend the National Labor Relation Act ("NLRA") to allow for union certification without an election, based on signed employee authorization.
- The Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the 110th Congress: Conflicting Values and Difficult Choices
- This report will identify and discuss oversight issues and legislation introduced in the 110th Congress to address specific concerns related to how ESA is implemented and how endangered species are managed.
- Financial Services and General Government (FSGG): FY2008 Appropriations
- This report is a guide to a new appropriations bill that Congress is considering for the first time this year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Financial Services and General Government. It summarizes the status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related congressional activity.
- Housing Issues in the 110th Congress
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- Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations
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- Reauthorization in the 110th Congress of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973
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- Stafford Loan Interest Rate Reduction: Background and Issues
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- Tax Benefits for Health Insurance and Expenses: Overview of Current Law and Legislation
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- U.S. Forces in Iraq
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- Animal Agriculture: 2007 Farm Bill Issues
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- The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
- This report provides information about the The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). This company is comprised of nine members,two ex officio members.
- Federal Law on Parking Privileges for Persons with Disabilities
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- Higher Education Act Reauthorization: A Comparison of Current Law and S. 1642
- This is a report on the Higher Education Act Reauthorization
- Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler Aircraft: Background and Issues for Congress
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- Pakistan-U.S. Relations
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- Public Health Service (PHS) Agencies: Background and Funding
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- Specialty Crops: 2007 Farm Bill Issues
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- State E-Government Strategies: Identifying Best Practices and Applications
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- Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD): FY2008 Appropriations
- This report is a guide to one of the regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the Subcommittees on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. It summarizes the current legislative status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related legislative activity.
- The War Crimes Act: Current Issues
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- China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy
- This report addresses relevant policy questions in current U.S.-China relations, discusses trends and key legislation in the current Congress and provides a chronology of developments and high-level exchanges.
- Congress’s Contempt Power: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure
- This report examines the source of the contempt power, reviews the historical development of the early case law, outlines the statutory and common law basis for Congress's contempt power, and analyzes the procedures associated with each of the three different types of contempt proceedings. In addition, the report discusses limitations both unconstitutional and constitutionally based on the power.
- Country-of-Origin Labeling for Foods
- This report provides information about the Country-of-Origin Labeling for Foods. Federal law requires most imports, including many food items to bear labels informing the "ultimate purchaser" of their country of origin.
- Does Price Transparency Improve Market Efficiency? Implications of Empirical Evidence in Other Markets for the Health Sector
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- Emergency Spending: Statutory and Congressional Rules
- This report discusses the designation of spending as emergency, which has had significance in both procedural and budgetary terms.
- The Financial Impact of Child Support on TANF Families: Simulation for Selected States
- This report provides a limited discussion of DRA's effect on former TANF families. The report address only the direct effects of adopting the DRA child support pass-through and disregard.
- Globalization, Worker Insecurity, and Policy Approaches
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- High School Graduation, Completion, and Dropouts: Federal Policy, Programs, and Issues
- This report discusses federal policy, programs, and issues related to high school graduation, completion, and dropouts.
- Safeguarding the Nation’s Drinking Water: EPA and Congressional Actions
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- Agricultural Credit: Farm Bill Issues
- This report discusses agricultural credit, which makes or guarantees loans to farmers who cannot qualify at other lenders, and the Farm Credit System (FCS), which is a network of borrower-owned lending institutions operating as a government-sponsored enterprise.
- Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Funding and Reauthorization
- This report provides information about the Funding and Re authorization of Community Services Block Grants (CSBG).