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- Senate Standing Committees’ Rules on Legislative Activities and Executive Business: Analysis for the 113th Congress
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- The U.N. Law of the Sea Convention and the United States: Developments Since October 2003
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- Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal
- This report provides information about the Civilian Nuclear Waste Disposal.The nuclear waste policy act of 1982 calls for disposal of spent nuclear fuel in a deep geologic repository.
- PILT (Payments in Lieu of Taxes): Somewhat Simplified
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- U.S. Foreign Assistance to the Middle East: Historical Background, Recent Trends, and the FY2009 Request
- This report is an overview of U.S. foreign assistance to the Middle East from FY2004 to FY2008, and of the FY2009 budget request. It includes a brief history of aid to the region, a review of foreign aid levels, a description of selected country programs, and an analysis of current foreign aid issues.
- The Pacific Salmon Treaty: The 1999 Agreement and Renegotiation of Annex IV
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- Nuclear Warheads: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program and the Life Extension Program
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- Generalized System of Preferences Renewal: Agricultural Imports
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- Europe: Rising Economic Nationalism?
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- Senate Committee Hearings: Arranging Witnesses
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- Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches
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- Military Service Records and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources
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- Lumber Imports From Canada: Issues and Events
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- Cash and Noncash Benefits for Persons With Limited Income: Eligibility Rules, Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY1996-FY1998
- This report provides basic eligibility rules, recipient numbers, and FY1996-FY1998 expenditure data for 80 programs that have provided cash or non-cash benefits to low-income persons.
- SBA New Markets Venture Capital Program
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- Iran Sanctions
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- Social Security Reform: Assessing Changes To Future Retirement Benefits
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- Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: FY2007 Appropriations
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- Public Safety Communications: Policy, Proposals, Legislation and Progress
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- The Randolph-Sheppard Act
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- U.S. Command and Control and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Aircraft
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- Burma: Economic Sanctions
- This report is about the economic sanctions in Burma.
- Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests
- This report contains the political developments and implications for U.S. interests with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
- Amendments Between the Houses
- This report describes the process whereby the House and the Senate revise measures to be identical before sending them to the president.
- Financial Regulatory Reform and the 111th Congress
- Financial regulatory reform is being discussed in the 111th Congress, the continuation of a policy debate that began before the September 2008 financial disruption. This report reviews issues related to financial regulation. It provides brief descriptions of comprehensive reform bills in the 111th Congress that addresses these issues.
- Foreign Aid: An Introduction to U.S. Programs and Policy
- This report provides an overview of the U.S. foreign aid program, by answering frequently asked questions on the subject.
- Head Start Issues in the 108th Congress
- This report provides Head Start issues on the 108th congress, a federal program that has provided comprehensive early childhood development services to low-income children since 1965.
- The Randolph-Sheppard Act: Business Enterprise Opportunities for the Blind
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- Amber Alert Program Technology
- This report deals with Amber Alert Program Technology and related policy issues.
- Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2007 (S. 256): Section-by-Section Analysis
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- Fuel Ethanol: Background and Public Policy Issues
- This report provides background concerning various aspects of fuel ethanol, and a discussion of the current related policy issues.
- Rehabilitation Act: Vocational Rehabilitation State Grants
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- Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate
- This report discusses the current debate over "net neutrality." While there is no single accepted definition of "net neutrality," most agree that any such definition should include the general principles that owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the Internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network, and they should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network.
- Motions to Proceed to Consider in the Senate: Who Offers Them?
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- Survey of Federal Whistleblower and AntiRetaliation Laws
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- Veterans’ Medical Care: FY2015 Appropriations
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- Pass-Throughs, Corporations, and Small Businesses: A Look at Firm Size
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- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): FY2008 Budget and Congressional Appropriations
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- Abortion: Judicial History and Legislative Response
- This report discuses the judicial history of abortion and how legislatures respond to those decisions made by the court. The report tackles landmark cases such as Roe v. Wade as well as companion decisions such as Doe v. Bolton. The report highlights specifically how Congress has attempted to enact legislation that limits abortion practices.
- Veterans’ Benefits: The Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program
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- European Trade Retaliation: The FSC-ETI Case
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- Congressional Franking Privilege: An Overview
- This report provides an overview of the congressional franking privilege, its cost, and regulations on Member use of the frank.
- Child Care Issues in the 109th Congress
- This report discusses how the federal support for child care comes in many forms, ranging from grant programs to tax provisions. It also points out how some programs serve as specifically dedicated funding sources for child care services, while for others, child care is just one of many purposes for which funds may be used.
- Charitable Choice Rules and Faith-Based Organizations
- President Bush's Administration has advanced a "Charitable Choice" agenda aimed at expanding the ability of faith-based organizations to provide federally funded social services and encouraging states to do likewise. Charitable choice rules are intended to ensure that faith-based organizations participate more fully in federally funded social service programs and offer services without abandoning their religious character or infringing on the religious freedom of applicants and recipients.
- Agriculture-Based Renewable Energy Production
- This report discusses federal programs on agriculture-based renewable energy and how people associated with agriculture have reacted. Moreover, the report discusses how this reaction has been positive and taken the form of an increase in ethanol production along with wind energy.
- Parents’ Work and Family Economic Well-Being
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- Farm Commodity Programs: Honey
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- Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: Energy, Environment, and Development Issues
- This report addresses Energy, Environment, and Development Issues of Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles.
- Underlying Strains in Taiwan-U.S. Political Relations
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- Energy and Water Development: FY2011 Appropriations
- This report discusses the energy and water development appropriations bill that provides funding for civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Energy (DOE), and a number of independent agencies.