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- Presidential Libraries: The Federal System and Related Legislation [Updated November 26, 2008]
- This report provides a brief overview of the federal presidential libraries system and tracks the progress of related legislation.
- Terrorist Attacks and National Emergencies Act Declarations
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- Terrorist Attacks and National Emergency Declaration
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- The Vice Presidency: Evolution of the Modern Office, 1933-2001
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- Informing Congress: The Role of the Executive in Times of War and Military Conflict, 1941-2001
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- Presidential Advisers' Testimony Before Congressional Committees: A Brief Overview
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- Presidential Advisers' Testimony Before Congressional Committees: An Overview
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- Presidential Advisers' Testimony Before Congressional Committees: An Overview
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- Presidential Advisers' Testimony Before Congressional Committees: An Overview
- This report discusses the executive office of the President, presidential adviser growth, and presidential advisers' testimony.
- The First Year: Assessments of Cooperation Between Newly Elected Presidents and Congress
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- Obama Library Likely Headed to Chicago's South Side
- This report briefly discusses the proposed construction of President Barack Obama's presidential library in the South Side of Chicago.
- 2008-2009 Presidential Transition: National Security Considerations and Options
- This report is concerned with the first presidential transition in a post-9/11 world. The report describes the domestic and foreign policy security challenges that will be left over for the new administration, and the security anxiety of foreign influence on the U.S. election.
- 2012-2013 Presidential Election Period: National Security Considerations and Options
- This report discusses historical national security-related presidential transition activities, provides a representative sampling of national security issues a new Administration may encounter, and offers considerations and options relevant to each of the five phases of the presidential election period. Each phase has distinct challenges and opportunities for the incoming Administration, the outgoing Administration, and Congress. This report is intended to provide a framework for national security considerations during the current election period and will be updated to reflect the election outcome.
- Line Item Veto: A Constitutional Analysis of Recent Proposals
- This report discusses the Legislative Line Item Veto and its constitutional issues and the President’s rescission proposals must be enacted by both Houses and signed into law.
- The New Vacancies Act: Congress Acts to Protect the Senate's Confirmation Prerogative
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- Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments
- This report discusses the background of claims of executive privilege, a right to preserve the confidentiality of information and documents in the face of legislative demands, ending with a look into how President George W. Bush has used them.
- Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments
- Presidential claims of a right to preserve the confidentiality of information and documents in the face of legislative demands have figured prominently, though intermittently, in executive-congressional relations since at least 1792, when the president Washington discussed with his cabinet how to respond to a congressional inquiry into the military debacle that befell General St. Clair's expedition. Few such interbranch disputes over access to information have reached the courts for substantive resolution, the vast majority achieving resolution through political negotiation and accommodation. In fact, it was not until the Watergate-related lawsuits in the 1970s seeking access to President Nixon's tapes that the existence of a presidential confidentiality privilege was judicially established as a necessary derivative of the President's status in our constitutional scheme of separated powers.
- President Bush's Judicial Nominations During the 101st and 102nd Congresses
- There are ten categories of courts (including the local courts of the District of Columbia) to which the President nominates judges. The report provides background and statistics concerning President Bush's judicial nominations in each court category as well as actions taken on those nominations by the United States Senate. Each of the report's ten sections discusses the composition and jurisdiction of the court in question and notes the committee to which nominations to this court were referred when received by the Senate. Also, statistics on judicial nominations received by the Senate during the four years of the Bush Presidency are presented.
- Proper Scope of Questioning of Supreme Court Nominees: The Current Debate
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- Supreme Court Appointment Process: Roles of the President, Judiciary Committee, and Senate
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- Nominations to Article III Lower Courts by President George W. Bush During the 110th Congress
- This report tracks nominations made by President George W. Bush to judgeships on the U.S. courts of appeals, the U.S. district courts, and the U.S. Court of International Trade — the lower courts on which, pursuant to Article III of the Constitution, judges serve "during good Behaviour." It lists and keeps count of all nominations made to these courts during the 110th Congress, including pertinent actions taken by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate. It also tracks the number of judicial vacancies on the courts (including vacancies classified by the federal judiciary as "judicial emergencies"), the number of nominations pending to fill the vacancies, and the names of the pending nominees. It presents the number of persons nominated by President Bush to each category of lower Article III court during his entire presidency (breaking down each total to show the number confirmed, pending, returned and not re-nominated, and withdrawn). Last, it provides tabular and graphical comparisons of President Bush's lower court nominee statistics with those of the four Presidents who immediately preceded him.
- Supreme Court Nominations, 1789-2005: Actions by the Senate, Judiciary Committee, and the President
- Report on the process of appointing Supreme Court Justices, including tables of Senate actions, Senate Judiciary Committee Actions, presidential actions, and more.
- Supreme Court Nominations, 1789 - 2005: Actions by the Senate, the Judiciary Committee, and the President
- The process of appointing Supreme Court Justices has undergone changes over two centuries, but its most basic feature -- the sharing of power between the President and Senate -- has remained unchanged. To receive a lifetime appointment to the Court, a candidate must first be nominated by the President and then confirmed by the Senate. Table 1 of this report lists and describes actions taken by the Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the President on all Supreme Court nominations, from 1789 to the present. The table provides the name of each person nominated to the Court and the name of the President making the nomination. It also tracks the dates of formal actions taken, and time elapsing between these actions, by the Senate or Senate Judiciary Committee on each nomination, starting with the date that the Senate received the nomination from the President.
- Supreme Court Nominations, 1789-2005: Actions by the Senate, the Judiciary Committee, and the President
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- Supreme Court Nominations, 1789 - 2009: Actions by the Senate, the Judiciary Committee, and the President
- This report explains in detail the process of appointing Supreme Court Justices, both as it stands currently and how it has changed over the last two centuries. The report includes a table that lists and describes actions taken by the Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the President on all Supreme Court nominations, from 1789 to the present.
- The Chief Justice of the United States: Responsibilities of the Office and Process for Appointment
- As part of Senate consideration, the Judiciary Committee holds hearings on the nominee and votes on whether to report the nomination favorably, unfavorably, or without recommendation. Regardless of the outcome of that vote, the reporting of a Supreme Court nomination sends it to the full Senate for debate and a vote. Like the President, Senators may evaluate the nominee by such standards as professional excellence, integrity, and leadership qualities, but may also (again, as the President is free to do) focus on the nominee's judicial philosophy, views on constitutional issues, or how they believe the appointment might affect the Court's future direction on major legal and constitutional issues.
- U.S. International HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Spending: FY2004-FY2008
- This report reviews U.S. appropriations for treatment and prevention of the three diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) from FY2004 through FY2008.
- Presidential Grave Sites: Maintenance and Congressional District Locations
- This report lists all U.S. Presidents, their terms of service, information concerning their grave sites, such as the address and the congressional districts of the grave sites, and the names and the telephone numbers of the burial locations or organizations or groups that maintain the burial sites. This report also includes information on presidential wreath laying ceremonies.
- President of the United States: Compensation
- This report discusses the President’s compensation and the three most recent increases to the salary enacted in 1949 (81st Congress), 1969 (91st Congress), and 1999 (106th Congress).
- Fast-Track Legislative Procedures for Trade Agreements: The Great Debate of 1991
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- Trade Promotion (Fast-Track) Authority: H.R. 3005 Provisions and Related Issues
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- The President's State of the Union Address: Tradition, Function, and Policy Implications
- This report explores the President's State of the Union Address, in which the President reports to Congress on the current conditions of the United States and provides policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year. This report also discusses the State of the Union's considerable evolution over time.
- The President's State of the Union Address: Tradition, Function, and Policy Implications
- This report discusses the State of the Union address, which is a communication between the President and Congress in which the chief executive reports on the current conditions of the United States and provides policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year.
- The President's State of the Union Address: Tradition, Function, and Policy Implications
- This report discusses the State of the Union address, which is a communication between the President and Congress in which the chief executive reports on the current conditions of the United States and provides policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year.
- The President's State of the Union Address: Tradition, Function, and Policy Implications
- This report discusses the State of the Union address, which is a communication between the President and Congress in which the chief executive reports on the current conditions of the United States and provides policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year.
- NATO: July 1997 Madrid Summit Outcome
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- Trade Promotion Authority and Fast-Track Negotiating Authority for Trade Agreements: Major Votes
- This report profiles significant legislation from 1974 to the present that authorizes the use of presidential Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), previously known as fast-track trade negotiating authority. The report also identifies significant bills and resolutions that had floor votes. It also includes a list of floor votes on implementing legislation for trade agreements from 1979 to the present; these bills were passed under TPA expedited procedures by Congress and signed by the President.
- Former Presidents: Federal Expenditures for Pensions, Office Allowances, and Protection
- This report contains the federal expenditures for pensions, office allowance, and protection of the former presidents.
- Former Presidents: Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits
- This report provides information about the Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits on Former Presidents, and explains various benefits, such as salary, Secret Service protection, mailing privileges, and travel expenses.
- Former Presidents: Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits
- This report provides information about the Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits on Former Presidents, and explains various benefits, such as salary, Secret Service protection, mailing privileges, and travel expenses.
- Former Presidents: Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits
- This report provides information about the Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits on Former Presidents. The GSA is authorized by the FPA to provide office staff and suitable office space at a location in the United States.
- Former Presidents: Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits
- This report contains the federal pension and retirement benefits of the former presidents.
- Former Presidents: Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits
- This report provides information about the Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits on Former Presidents. The GSA is authorized by the FPA to provide an office staff and suitable office space at a location in the United States.
- Former Presidents: Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits
- This report provides information about the Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits on Former Presidents. The GSA is authorized by the FPA to provide office staff and suitable office space at a location in the United States.
- Former Presidents: Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits
- This report provides information about the Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits on Former Presidents. The GSA is authorized by the FPA to provide an office staff and suitable office space at a location in the United States.
- Former Presidents: Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits
- This report provides information about the Federal Pension and Retirement Benefits on Former Presidents. The GSA is authorized by the FPA to provide an office staff and suitable office space at a location in the United States.
- Former Presidents: Pensions, Facilities, and Services
- The Former Presidents Act (72 Stat. 838) of 1958 provides financial and practical means to those who have served as President of the United States and still retain certain implicit public duties. In 1958, the cost of former Presidents to the public was an estimated $64,000. In FY84, approximately $27 million will be spent on benefits to former Presidents and their widows. Operation and maintenance of Presidential Libraries was approximately $14.9 million in FY83. This report discusses increasing concerns regarding the amounts and the types of expenditures that have been made.
- Presidential Transition: A Selected Bibliography
- This bibliography was written to share the point of view of two major aspects of Presidential transitions: transferring the reins of government and the setting up of a new administration, and the effects such a change has on the Federal bureaucracy
- Presidential Transitions: Background and Federal Support
- This report discusses the Presidential Transition Act, which authorizes funding for the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide suitable office space, staff compensation and other services associated with the transition process.
- Congressional Overrides of Presidential Vetoes
- This report discusses Congress' power to override presidential vetoes. The President's veto authority is among his most significant tools in legislative dealings with Congress. It is effective not only in preventing the passage of legislation undesirable to the President, but also as a threat, sometimes forcing Congress to modify legislation before it is presented to the President.