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- Clean Water Issues in the 105th Congress
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- Clearcutting in the National Forests: Background and Overview
- This report provides background and an overview on clearcutting use in the National Forests and effects.
- Committee System: Rules Changes in the House, 105th Congress
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- Comparison of Titles VI & VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Americans with Disabilities Act; Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Title IX of Education Amendments of 1972; and Rehabilitation Act of 1973
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- Compensating Farmers for the Tobacco Settlement
- This report discusses the ramifications of actions taken by lawmakers to reduce the consumption of tobacco in regards to tobacco farms and the farming industry.
- Constitution of the United States; Recent Writings: Bibliography-in-Brief
- This bibliography contains recent publications discussing the history, development, and application of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements and Semiconductor Technology: Issues Involving the “DOE-Intel CRADA"
- This report provides information on the federal interest in cooperation R&D and the laws that shape such efforts.
- Copyright Term Extension and Music Licensing: Analysis of Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and Fairness in Music Licensing Act, P.L. 105-298
- This report explains the provisions of PL 105-298, reviews key aspects of the legislative history and notes changes from prior law.
- Copyright Term Extension: Estimating the Economic Values
- This report considers proposals to extend the duration of copyrights by 20 years (as in H.R. 2589 and other bills) and related proposals to charge a fee to the owners in order to receive the extension. The method of analysis is economic rather than legal. The report reviews the basic economic principals involved in copyright law and gives rough estimates of the value of copyrights on books, music, and movies produced in the 1920s and 1930s — those that would be most immediately affected by an extension of copyright terms.
- Covert Action: An Effective Instrument of U. S. Foreign Policy?
- This report addresses the statutory basis for covert actions, criteria for their use in the post-Cold War world, and procedures for their planning, conducting, and funding.
- Credit Provisions of the Enacted 1996 Farm Bill
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- Credit Union Common Bond Ruling: NCUA v. First National Bank & Trust Co. U. S. (No. 96- 843)
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- Credit Union Membership Act Implementation: Legal Issues
- This report examines the background and issues of the litigation regarding Regulations implementing the Credit Union Membership Act of 1998 that is being challenged in court as impermissively expansive.
- Crime and Forfeiture: The Innocent Third Party
- Forfeiture has survived through time in American law, and since 1984, the use of forfeiture statutes to divest felons of their spoils has increased substantially. This report reviews the case law which raises the issue concerning many relative to whether some civil forfeiture proceedings constitute punishment which may violate the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause.
- Crime Control Assistance Through the Byrne Programs
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- Crime Control Assistance Through the Byrne Programs
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- Criminal Aliens: Expanded Detention, Restricted Relief from Removal
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- Criminal Law: The “Exculpatory No” Doctrine Is Not A Defense Under 18 U.S.C. 1001
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- Critical Infrastructures: A Primer
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- Crop Insurance and Risk Management: Provisions in the Enacted 1996 Farm Bill
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- Cuba-U.S. Relations: Chronology of Key Events 1959-1999
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- Current Social Security Issues
- Social Security is the focus of intense public interest. Projected long-range funding problems, public skepticism about its future, and a growing perception that Social Security will not be as good a value for future retirees as it is today are fueling calls for reform. This report discusses a number of the major Social Security issues currently drawing congressional attention.
- Dairy Provisions of the Enacted 1996 Farm Bill
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- Daylight Saving Time
- This report provides a brief history of the issues surroundings DST, an outline of the legislative that created and modified it, and a list of references to more discussions.
- Decorum in House Debate
- This report describes the basic standards of decorum that govern remarks made in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Defense Research: A Primer on the Department of Defense’s Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) Program
- This report describes the basic elements and issues of the Department of Defense's (DOD) Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) Program. It defines basic activities supported by the program, presents budget trends, discusses the management of program, and describes the infrastructure in which the program is implemented. This report is for staff new to the area of defense research and for senior staff interested in historical trends.
- Department of Commerce Science and Technology Programs: Review of Dismantling Proposals in the 104th Congress
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- Department of Energy FY1999 Research and Development Budget: Description and Analysis
- This report should be useful for tracking appropriations and authorization actions on the DOE R&D programs, and the potential implications of those actions.
- The Difference Between DOD Programs That Develop Dual-Use Technologies and DOD’s Dual-Use Technology Development Programs–A Fact Sheet
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- "Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act": Analysis of H.R. 3048
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- Disease Funding and NIH Priority Setting
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- Drug Certification of Mexico in 1998: Arguments For and Against Congressional Resolutions of Disapproval
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- Drug Control: Reauthorization of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
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- Drunk Driving: Should Each State Be Required to Enact a 0.08 Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) Law?
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- Dual Citizenship
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- East Asia and the Pacific: Issues at the End of the 105th Congress
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- Economic and Policy Developments in the Apparel and Textiles Sector
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- Economic Sanctions to Achieve U.S. Foreign Policy Goals: Discussion and Guide to Current Law
- This report provides background on foreign policy sanctions and the events that might necessitate their use, criteria to consider when determining if sanctions are appropriate, approaches that might be effective, and aspects of the use of sanctions that are sometimes overlooked or not considered fully. The report also provides an uncomplicated map of where sanctions policies and options currently may be found in U.S. law.
- Economic Sanctions to Achieve U.S. Foreign Policy Goals: Discussion and Guide to Current Law
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- The EC's Government Procurement Directive : Has "Fortress Europe" Arrived?
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- Education Issues in the 105th Congress, 2nd Session
- This report provides a brief summary of education issues anticipated for the 2nd Session, as well as a synopsis of education activity during the 1st Session.
- Education Savings Accounts for Elementary and Secondary Education
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- Education Vouchers: The Constitutional Standards
- This report sketches the constitutional standards that apply to public aid to sectarian schools and especially to programs of indirect assistance such as education vouchers.
- Electric Utility Restructuring: Overview of Basic Policy Questions
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- Electricity Restructuring Background: The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 and the Energy Policy Act of 1992
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- Electricity Restructuring: Comparison of S. 1401, H.R. 655, H.R. 1230, S. 722, and H.R. 1960
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- The Emergency Agricultural Provisions in the FY1999 Omnibus Appropriations Act
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- The Encryption Debate: Intelligence Aspects
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- An Endangered Species Act Issue for Southeastern Florida: Johnson’s Seagrass
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- English as the Official Language of the United States: An Overview
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