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- Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Legislation for Disaster Assistance: Summary Data, FY1989 to FY2007
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- Farm Commodity Policy: Programs and Issues for Congress
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- Federal Employees’ Retirement System: Benefits and Financing
- This report provides information about the Benefits and Financing on Federal Employees’ Retirement System. Most civilian federal employees who were hired before 1984 are covered by the civil service retirement system.
- Flow of Business: Typical Day on the Senate Floor
- This report discusses the Procedures that usually occur every session day, and notes certain business items that occurs less frequently.
- Homeland Security Grants: FY2003 - FY2006 Evolution of Program Guidance and Grant Allocation Methods
- This report explains the FY2003 through FY2006 administrative guidance that governed the three homeland security assistance programs.
- Indian Trust Fund Litigation: Legislation to Resolve Accounting Claims in Cobell v. Norton
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- Instructing House Conferees
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- Iran’s Nuclear Program: Recent Developments
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- Largest Mergers and Acquisitions by Corporations, 2006
- This report provides a listing of the largest M&A transactions worldwide (value equivalent to $2 billion or more) that were proposed during 2006. The report includes the dates on which transactions were completed and shows M&A deals that were still pending as of December 31, 2006, or that were no successful. These data have been drawn from publicly available sources and have not been otherwise verified by the Congressional Research Service.
- Living Organ Donation and Valuable Consideration
- This report contains background regarding how living donation is included within the larger organ donation construct, the likely impact that paired organ donation will have, and that list donation programs would have, on organ supply.
- Mining on Federal Lands: Hardrock Minerals
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- Municipal Reorganization: Chapter 9 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
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- Project BioShield: Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Policy Implementation Issues for Congress
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- Security Classified and Controlled Information: History, Status, and Emerging Management Issues
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- Social Security: The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP)
- This report discusses the windfall elimination provision (WEP), which reduces the Social Security benefits of workers who also have pension benefits from employment not covered by Social Security. Its purpose is to remove an advantage these workers would otherwise receive because of Social Security’s benefit formula that favors workers with smaller amounts of Social Security-covered career earnings. Opponents contend that the provision is basically inaccurate and often unfair.
- The Supreme Court Takes Five Environmental Cases for Its 2006-2007 Term
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- Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy
- This report provides current statistical information, profiles the Afghanistan narcotics trade's participants, explores linkages between narcotics, insecurity, and corruption, and reviews U.S. and international policy responses since late 2001. The report also considers ongoing policy debates regarding the counternarcotics role of coalition military forces, poppy eradication, alternative livelihoods, and funding issues for Congress.
- Allocation of Wastewater Treatment Assistance: Formula and Other Changes
- This report consists of allocation of wastewater treatment assistance: Formula and Other Changes.
- The Charter of the American National Red Cross: Current Issues and Proposed Changes
- This report provides a brief history of the ANRC, describes the congressional interest in the ANRC's governance, operations and charter.It reviews the ANRC's governance audit report and proposal to amend its charter and describes congressional proposals to amend the charter.
- Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act of 2005 (CURIA)
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- District of Columbia School Reform Proposal: Authority of the D.C. Council To Implement
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- Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: Program Overview and Issues
- The Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 authorized a drinking water state revolving loan fund program to help public water systems finance infrastructure projects needed to comply with federal drinking water regulations and to protect public health.
- Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act
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- Health Care and Markets
- This report discusses the Invisible Hand Theorem, which states that when certain assumptions hold, market outcomes will be efficient.
- Institutional Eligibility for Participation in Title IV Student Aid Programs Under the Higher Education Act: Background and Reauthorization Issues
- This report provides a general overview of HEA provisions that affect institutional eligibility for participation in Title IV student aid programs and, in some instances, discusses specific issues that may arise during the HEA reauthorization process.
- Nuclear Power: Outlook for New U.S. Reactors
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- Social Security: The Government Pension Offset (GPO)
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- The United Nations Human Rights Council: Issues for Congress
- This report contains the issues for Congress regarding the United Nations (UN) human rights council.
- Agroterrorism: Threats and Preparedness
- The potential of terrorist attacks against agricultural targets (agroterrorism) is increasingly recognized as a national security threat, especially after the events of September 11, 2001. This report focuses primarily on biological weapons (rather than chemical weapons) because biological weapons generally are considered the more potent agroterrorism threat. This report also focuses more on the threat of agroterrorism against agricultural production, rather than on food processing and distribution, although the latter is discussed.
- Aviation Finance: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization and Related Issues
- This report provides background information on how the existing trust fund based aviation finance system operates, discusses several basic issues concerning aviation taxation, and identifies FAA programmatic spending.
- The Budget for Fiscal Year 2008
- This report details the budget resolutions for the Fiscal Year 2008. It discusses the current situation, Budget outlays, receipts, deficits, and surpluses
- Combating Terrorism: The Challenge of Measuring Effectiveness
- This report is designed to support efforts of the 110th congress to understand and apply broad based objective criteria when evaluating progress in the nation's efforts to combat terrorism.
- Courts Narrow McCarran-Ferguson Antitrust Exemption for ”Business of Insurance”; Viability of ”State Action” Doctrine as an Alternative
- This report discusses the United States v. South-Eastern underwriter Ass'n that held that the federal antitrust laws were applicable to an insurance association's interstate activities in restrain of trade.
- Department of Homeland Security Grants to State and Local Governments: FY2003 to FY2006
- This report provides information about the Department of Homeland Security Grants to State and Local Governments in between FY2003 to FY2006. This report also analyzes federal grants to state and local governments that are administered by DHS.
- The Electoral College: Reform Proposals in the 109th Congress
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- Exemptions from Environmental Law for the Department of Defense: Background and Issues for Congress
- This report provides Background and Issues for Congress on Exemptions from Environmental Law for the Department of Defense. several environmental statutes contain national security exemptions which is a department of defense can obtain on a case by case basis.
- Firms That Incorporate Abroad for Tax Purposes: Corporate “Inversions” and “Expatriation”
- This report provides information about Corporate “Inversions” and “Expatriation” on Firms That Incorporate Abroad for Tax Purposes which have altered their structure by substituting a foreign parent corporation for a domestic one.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments: 110th Congress
- This report provides information about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments of 110th Congress where that statute specified nine categories of information that may be permissibly exempted from the rule of disclosure.
- Fundamental Tax Reform: Options for the Mortgage Interest Deduction
- This report describes the deduction for home mortgage interest, provides an economic analysis of the deduction, and concludes with an analysis of the possible changes to the mortgage interest deduction in the context of tax reform and the potential impacts of those changes
- FY2007 Appropriations for State and Local Homeland Security
- This report is an overview of the FY2007 Department of Homeland Security appropriations, the Administration's budget request, and the House- and Senate- passed versions of H.R. 5441 for seven homeland security programs designed to provide assistance to state and local first responders.
- Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security
- This report discusses the current political and social climate of Iraq, specifically in regards to the influence of the U.S. military presence over recent years. This report addresses planned and possible future efforts under the Obama Administration, including the scheduled gradual troops withdrawal. Some U.S. officials believe that a U.S. military presence is needed beyond the scheduled August 31, 2010 date, by which point all U.S. troops will have been withdrawn. This report also discusses the continued tensions between various Iraqi sociocultural groups.
- The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (P.L. 109-417): Provisions and Changes to Preexisting Law
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- Payment Limits for Farm Commodity Programs: Issues and Proposals
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- SCHIP Original Allotments: Description and Analysis
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- Somalia: Current Conditions and Prospects for a Lasting Peace
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- State and Urban Area Homeland Security Plans and Exercises: Issues for the 110th Congress
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- Trends in Terrorism: 2006
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- The USDA 2007 Farm Bill Proposal: Possible Questions
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- The Whistleblower Protection Act: An Overview
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- The 2006 Increase in U.S. Motor Vehicle Imports from Japan
- This report examines the increased imports of Japanese vehicles in context of a policy by the Japanese government to reduce the exchange rate of the yen. The report also examines other reasons for the increase in Japanese vehicle imports such as U.S. manufacturers not building the type of car primarily bought by consumers.