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Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation

Description: This report includes information background and analysis regarding exemption for and agriculture products from United States economic sanctions. This report also details debates, enacted provisions, sales, and developments regarding this subject.
Date: December 14, 2004
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Appropriations for FY2005: Energy and Water Development

Description: This report is a guide to the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill, including the funding for civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), most of the Department of Energy (DOE), and a number of independent agencies.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Behrens, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Appropriations for FY2004: Transportation, Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, General Government, and Related Agencies

Description: This report provides appropriations of Transportation, Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, General Government, and Related Agencies for FY2004
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: Peterman, David Randall & Frittelli, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dairy Policy Issues

Description: This report gives an overview of Dairy policy issues and the contents include Dairy forward pricing pilot program, Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) payments, Milk protein concentrate trade issues, and dairy price support program
Date: June 4, 2004
Creator: Chite, Ralph M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Genetic Testing: Scientific Background and Nondiscrimination Legislation

Description: This report provides a comprehensive overview of genetic testing in the United States, reviews the debate concerning the necessity of the new legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetics, and compares current law with proposed legislation before the 108th Congress.
Date: July 20, 2004
Creator: Schoonmaker, Michele & Williams, Erin D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Accounting Problems at Fannie Mae

Description: This report summarizes the critiques the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Supervision (OFHEO) made of accounting practices at Fannie Mae. The OFHEO's two main issues are under the domains of: amortization of discounts, premiums, fees involved in the purchase of home mortgages, and the other being accounting for financial derivatives contracts. The report emphasizes that these discrepancies created a false image of the company's earnings and in one case was the cause of the company's executi… more
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Jickling, Mark
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Air Act Issues in the 108th Congress

Description: This report provides information about the Clean Air Act Issues in the 106th Congress. Congress last enacted major amendments to the clear air act in 1990 and EPA is in the midst of implementing numerous provisions of those amendments.
Date: July 28, 2004
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Procurement: Full Funding Policy — Background, Issues, and Options for Congress

Description: This report discusses the Background, Issues, and Options for Congress on Defense Procurement. The full funding policy is a federal budgeting rule imposed on DOD by Congress in the 1950s that requires the entire procurement cost of a weapon of military equipment.
Date: June 29, 2004
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald & Daggett, Stephen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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