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Gasoline Price Surge Revisited: Crude Oil and Refingery Issues

Description: Gasoline prices have been extremely volatile for well over a year, with three significant price spikes focusing the attention of consumers and policy makers on the gas pump. This report discusses the issue of gas price fluctuations, focusing on crude oil inventory and other factors.
Date: May 17, 2004
Creator: Kumins, Lawrence & Bamberger, Robert L.
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The Gender Wage Gap and Pay Equity: Is Comparable Worth the Next Step?

Description: This report examines the trend in the male-female wage gap and the explanations offered for its existence. Remedies proposed for the gender wage gap's amelioration are addressed, with an in-depth focus on the comparable worth approach to achieving "pay equity" or "fair pay" between women and men.
Date: December 20, 2004
Creator: Levine, Linda
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General Management Laws: A Compendium

Description: This report is a companion to CRS Report RL32388, General Management Laws: Major Themes and Management Policy Options. In combination, these reports have three main objectives: (1) to identify and describe the major management laws under which the executive branch of the federal government is required to operate, including their rationale, design, and scope; (2) to assist Members of Congress and their staff in oversight of executive branch management; and (3) to help Congress when considering p… more
Date: May 19, 2004
Creator: Brass, Clinton T.
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General Management Laws: Major Themes and Management Policy Options

Description: This report focuses on major themes -- and possible policy options for Congress -- that emerge when the general management laws are viewed together, as a whole. The report also describes historical context of the roles that Congress and the President play in managing the executive branch, and compares management in the public and private sectors.
Date: May 19, 2004
Creator: Brass, Clinton T.
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Generals and Flag Officers: Senior Military Officer Confirmations

Description: From Summary: This report describes the Department of Defense (DOD) process which discloses to the Senate adverse information about senior military officers awaiting confirmation of a General or Flag Officer (GFO) personnel action, such as a promotion or appointment.
Date: January 20, 2004
Creator: Fernandez, Adolfo J.
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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.
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Genetically Engineered Fish and Seafood

Description: This is a report on Genetically Engineered Fish and seafood, with are supposed to have inherited traits to have improved organisms due to the genetical engineering.
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Borgatti, Rachel & Buck, Eugene H.
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Genocide: Legal Precedent Surrounding the Definition of the Crime

Description: This report presents a brief historical background on the U.N. Convention on the Prevention of Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, its ratification and implementation by the United States, and its incorporation into the Rome Statute creating an International Criminal Court.
Date: September 14, 2004
Creator: Derenzo, Judith & Garcia, Michael John
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Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized

Description: This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of Georgia.
Date: April 2, 2004
Creator: Bea, Keith; Runyon, L. Cheryl & Warnock, Kae M.
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Global Climate Change

Description: This report briefly reviews the status of climate science, international negotiations, and congressional activity focused specifically on climate change.
Date: October 29, 2004
Creator: Justus, John R. & Fletcher, Susan R.
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Global Climate Change: The Kyoto Protocol

Description: This report discusses the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was completed December 11, 1997, committing the industrialized nations to specified, legally binding reductions in emissions of six “greenhouse gases.”
Date: June 10, 2004
Creator: Fletcher, Susan R.
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Global Climate Change: The Kyoto Protocol

Description: This report discusses the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was completed December 11, 1997, committing the industrialized nations to specified, legally binding reductions in emissions of six “greenhouse gases.”
Date: October 27, 2004
Creator: Fletcher, Susan R.
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