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- House Committee Reports: Required Contents
- This report discusses house rules and statutes that detail several substantive requirements for items to be included in reports accompanying bills reported from committees. It provides a table that lists each rule with the requirement and applications.
- House and Senate Rules of Procedure: A Comparison
- This report compares selected House and Senate rules of procedure governing various stages of the legislative process: referral of legislation to committees; scheduling and calling up measures; and floor consideration. The appendices provide sources of additional information about House and Senate rules of procedure.
- Social Security Earnings Test: Recent and Proposed Changes
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- Awards of Attorney's Fees to Small Businesses and Labor Organizations that Prevail Against the NLRB or OSHA: H.R. 1987, 106th Congress
- H.R. 1987, 106th Congress, the Fair Access to Indemnity and Reimbursement (FAIR) Act, which was reported by the Committee on Education and the Workforce on October 14, 1999, would make it easier for small businesses and labor organizations that prevail against the NLRB or OSHA, in administrative or court proceedings, to recover their attorneys' fees from the government. It would do so by requiring fees to be awarded automatically in cases to which it applied, instead of only when the government's position was not substantially justified.
- Appropriations for FY2000: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
- This report is a guide to appropriations of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education for FY2000.
- Defense Acquisition Workforce: Issues for Congress
- This report discusses recent congressionally mandated reductions in the Department of Defense(DOD) acquisition workforce.
- Social Security and the Federal Budget: What Does Social Security’s Being “Off Budget” Mean?
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- Points of Order in the Congressional Budget Process
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- Appropriations for FY2000: Energy and Water Development
- This report summarizes the current legislative status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related legislative activity.
- Federal Government Information Technology Policy: Selected Issues
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- Compendium of Precedents Involving Evidentiary Rulings and Applications of Evidentiary Principles from Selected Impeachment Trials
- This report is a compilation of evidentiary issues and rulings from the Senate impeachment trials of Judges Nixon, Hastings, Claiborne, Ritter, Louderback, and Swayne. A discourse on what evidentiary rules and principles are applicable in impeachment trials is appended.
- East Timor Crisis: U.S. Policy and Options
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- The Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Its Rise, Fall, and Current Status
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- The Expanded Threat Reduction Initiative for the Former Soviet Union: Administration Proposals for FY2000
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- NONCREATIVE DATABASE BILLS IN THE HOUSE
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- Appropriations for FY1999: An Overview
- This is a funding level summary of each of the 13 annual appropriation acts for FY1999 appears in the summaries of annual appropriations spending section of this report.
- Presidential Disability: An Overview
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- Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996: Overview of P.L. 104-182
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- Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Statutes: A List of Citations with Captions, Introductory Comments, and Bibliography
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- Criminal Aliens: Expanded Detention, Restricted Relief from Removal
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- Algeria: A New President and His Policies
- This report details concerns surrounding the election of Abdulaziz Bouteflika to the presidency of Algeria in 1999. Specifically, the opposing party labeled the election as corrupt. After seven years of civil war Bouteflika proposed a civil concord and is restoring Algerian foreign relations to what they once were. Currently, the relationship between the U.S. and Algeria looks positive for the foreseeable future.
- Iraq: Post-War Challenges and U.S. Responses, 1991-1998
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- Comparison of Selected Consumer Provisions in H.R. 833 and S. 625, the Bankruptcy Reform Acts of 1999
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- Animal Waste Management and the Environment: Background for Current Issues
- This report addresses the Background and the then current issues related to Animal Waste Management and the Environment.This background report describes the livestock production industry along with the public health and environmental concerns related to the industry.
- Small, High Tech Companies and Their Role in the Economy: Issues in the Reauthorization of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
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- Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) and Human Rights: Background and Issues for Congress
- The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 allows U.S. special operations forces (SOF) to train under the Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) program in foreign countries, and does not prohibit training in nations where human rights violations have been reported. Such training includes instructing host government military units in lethal and nonlethal skills. Controversy has erupted over JCET missions in countries whose militaries are suspected or known to have committed human rights abuses. This report describes relevant legislation, SOF, JCET, alleged human rights abuses, and recent congressional initiatives and discusses further options and issues.
- Older Americans Act: 106th Congress Legislation
- This report provides brief legislative background for Older Americans Act programs expired at the end of FY1995. The report discusses issues with re-authorization and 106th Congress proposals.
- Crime and Forfeiture: The Innocent Third Party
- Forfeiture has survived through time in American law, and since 1984, the use of forfeiture statutes to divest felons of their spoils has increased substantially. This report reviews the case law which raises the issue concerning many relative to whether some civil forfeiture proceedings constitute punishment which may violate the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause.
- Federal Holidays: Evolution and Application
- This report discusses the history of each federal holiday and explains its rationale where a public record exists.
- Nursing Home Evictions of Medicaid Patients Following Voluntary Withdrawal From Medicaid Program: Current Issues and Congressional Response
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- PUBLIC ACCESS TO DATA FROM FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH: OMB CIRCULAR A-110 AND ISSUES FOR CONGRESS
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- TEMPORARY WORKERS AS MEMBERS OF THE CONTINGENT LABOR FORCE
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- THE PERSIAN GULF: ISSUES FOR U.S. POLICY, 1999
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- NAFTA: Estimates of Job Effects and Industry Trade Trends After 5½ Years
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- Appropriations for FY2000: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies
- This report discusses Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for FY2000.
- Kosovo: Historical Background to the Current Conflict
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- Clean Air Act Issues in the 106th Congress
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- Coast Guard: Analysis of the FY2000 Budget
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- The Congressional Appropriations Process: An Introduction
- This report provides information about The Introduction of Congressional Appropriations Process. Congress has developed certain rules and practices for the consideration of appropriate measures, referred to as Congressional Appropriations Process.
- The U.S. Trade Deficit: Trends, Theory, Policy, and Sustainability
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- Budget FY1999: A Chronology with Internet Access
- This report consists of a chronology with internet access budget FY1999.
- Staff Depositions in Congressional Investigations
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- Taxpayer Bill of Rights 3: 1998 Tax Law Part 3: Attorneys' Fees and Damages for IRS Abuses
- This report discusses the provisions expanding a court's authority to award attorney's fees and costs in certain cases and permitting a taxpayer to collect damages for negligent collection actions by IRS agents.
- Appropriations Supplemental for FY1999: Emergency Funding in P.L. 105-277 for Agriculture, Embassy Security, Y2K Problems, Defense, and Other Issues
- This report describes emergency supplemental initiatives for the year 1999. The initiatives include: agriculture, embassy security and counter-terrorism, year 2000 computer conversion, U.S. troops in Bosnia, defense readiness, and other topics.
- Japan-South Korea Relations: Converging Interests and Implications for the United States
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- Long Beach: Proposed Lease by China Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO) at Former Naval Base
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- NATO: Congress Addresses Expansion of the Alliance
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- Cuba-U.S. Relations: Chronology of Key Events 1959-1999
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- SUPERFUND FACT BOOK
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- Slovenia: Country Background Report
- This report provides background information on Slovenia who seeks membership in the European Union and NATO and is considered to be among the top candidates currently aspiring to join each organizations.