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Military Readiness: Updated Readiness Status of U.S. Air Transport Capability

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The National Military Strategy states that the U.S. military should be able to fight and win two nearly simultaneous wars. Recently, concerns have been raised about whether the U.S. mobility capabilities may be inadequate to quickly transport the military forces and supplies necessary to execute strategy. This correspondence provides updated information on the readiness status of U.S. airlift and aerial refueli… more
Date: March 16, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Business Systems Modernization: IRS Has Satisfied Congressional Direction on the Custodial Accounting Project

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As part of its business systems modernization program, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is acquiring a system known as the Custodial Accounting Project (CAP). In September 2000, Congress directed that IRS limit its spending on CAP until IRS provided a compelling business case for investing in this project and started managing CAP as an integrated part of the business systems modernization program. GAO found t… more
Date: March 16, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Comparison of Voting Age Population to Registered Voters in the 40 Largest U.S. Counties

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report compares data on the number of registered voters for the 40 largest counties in the United States with estimates of voting age populations for those jurisdictions. GAO found that none of the counties have voter registration numbers that exceed the number of eligible voting age residents."
Date: March 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Department of Energy: Views on Proposed Legislation on Civil Penalties for Nuclear Safety Violations by Nonprofit Contractors

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses GAO's views on H.R. 723, a bill that would modify the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 by changing how the Department of Energy (DOE) treats nonprofit contractors who violate DOE's nuclear safety requirements. Currently, nonprofit contractors are exempted from paying civil penalties that DOE assesses under the act. H.R. 723 would remove that exemption. GAO supports eliminating the exemption because… more
Date: March 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Medicare: Higher Expected Spending and Call for New Benefit Underscore Need for Meaningful Reform

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Much is at stake when it comes to Medicare reform--not only the program's future but also the nation's fiscal flexibility to pursue other important national goals and programs in the future. A comprehensive effort to reform Medicare and put it on a sustainable path would help fulfill this generation's stewardship responsibility to succeeding generations. It would also help to preserve some capacity for future genera… more
Date: March 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Health Insurance: Proposals for Expanding Private and Public Coverage

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Various approaches have been proposed to increase private and public health care coverage of uninsured persons. The success of these proposals will depend on several key factors. The impact of tax subsidies on promoting private health insurance will depend on whether the subsidies reduce premiums enough to induce uninsured low-income individuals to buy health insurance and on whether these subsidies can be made avai… more
Date: March 15, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Foreign Assistance: Peru on Track for Free and Fair Elections but Faces Major Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Peruvian government has acted decisively to address the serious problems that affected last year's elections. President Paniagua's administration has committed itself to ensuring the neutrality of the government and the armed forces during the upcoming elections, including prohibiting the use of government resources for political purposes. Also, the government has named new leaders to two electoral agencies--tho… more
Date: March 14, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Health Insurance: Characteristics and Trends in the Uninsured Population

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "More than one in six nonelderly Americans are uninsured today. The lack of insurance coverage does not affect all Americans equally, varying widely among demographic groups as well as geographically. An estimated 42.1 million Americans were uninsured in 1999, which is down from 43.9 million in 1998. Although the decline in the number of uninsured is welcome news, it is too early to know whether this reflects a rever… more
Date: March 13, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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U.S. Government Financial Statements: FY 2000 Reporting Underscores the Need to Accelerate Federal Financial Management Reform

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Comptroller General discusses GAO's report on the U.S. government's consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2000. This is the fourth consecutive year that GAO has been unable to express an opinion on the U.S. government's consolidated financial statements. Material weaknesses in internal control and accounting and reporting issues prevented GAO from being able to provide Congress and the American peopl… more
Date: March 30, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Long-Term Care: Baby Boom Generation Increases Challenge of Financing Needed Services

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The confluence of the aging baby boom generation, longer life expectancies, and evolving options for providing and financing long-term care services will require substantial public and private investment in long-term care and the development of sufficient capacity to serve this growing population. Spending for long-term care was about $134 billion in 1999. Medicaid and Medicare paid for nearly 58 percent of these s… more
Date: March 27, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Defense Maintenance: Sustaining Readiness Support Capabilities Requires a Comprehensive Plan

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In addition to the end of the Cold War and the resulting military force structure downsizing, three events have shaped the depot maintenance environment. First, the base realignment and closure process has reduced DOD's Cold War era infrastructure from 38 military depots to 19. Second, as recommended in various studies, DOD has increasingly relied on defense contractors for depot maintenance and related logistics ac… more
Date: March 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Human Capital: Major Human Capital Challenges at the Departments of Defense and State

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the human capital issues facing the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of State. The issues confronting the two agencies do not fundamentally differ from those facing other federal agencies. In the wake of extensive downsizing during the last decade, agency workforces are experiencing significant imbalances in terms of shape, skills, and retirement eligibility, with the likelihoo… more
Date: March 29, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Intercity Passenger Rail: Assessing the Benefits of Increased Federal Funding for Amtrak and High-Speed Passenger Rail Systems

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the benefits of increased federal funding for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) and high-speed passenger rail systems. Amtrak made minimal progress in 2000 toward achieving operational self-sufficiency. Although Amtrak is required by law to achieve operational self-sufficiency by the end of 2002, the outlook is not bright. Amtrak reduced its "budget gap" by only $5 million… more
Date: March 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Federal Taxes: Information on Payroll Taxes and Earned Income Tax Credit Noncompliance

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses (1) how payroll taxes fund Social Security and the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) programs and (2) noncompliance associated with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and efforts to deal with that noncompliance. Payroll taxes fund the Social Security Program and the Medicare HI program. These taxes are paid in equal portions by employees and their employers. Employees and their families bec… more
Date: March 7, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Welfare Reform: Progress in Meeting Work-Focused TANF Goals

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the progress of welfare reform. GAO found that states are transforming the nation's welfare system into a work-based, temporary assistance program for needy families, with a focus on moving people into employment rather than signing them up for cash assistance. States' implementation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), undertaken in a time of strong economic growth, has been a… more
Date: March 15, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Aviation Competition: Challenges in Enhancing Competition in Dominated Markets

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The major network carriers dominate traffic at most of their large hubs and extensive evidence exists that fares in markets where competition is absent are consistently above competitive levels. GAO believes that the oversight scheme contemplated when the industry was deregulated--with antitrust enforcement by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and oversight of unfair trade practices by the Department of Transportation… more
Date: March 13, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Foreign Assistance: Implementing Disaster Recovery Assistance in Latin America

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the U.S. government's disaster recovery and reconstruction program for countries that have been devastated by hurricanes. GAO found that the Agency for International Development (AID) and other U.S. agencies are using the disaster recovery assistance to bring about economic recovery, improve public health and access to education, provide permanent housing for displaced families, and improve … more
Date: March 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Advanced Emissions Control Development Program

Description: The primary objective of the Advanced Emissions Control Development Program (AECDP) is to develop practical, cost-effective strategies for reducing the emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs, or air toxics) from coal-fired boilers. This objective is being met by identifying ways to effectively control air toxic emissions through the use of conventional flue gas cleanup equipment such as electrostatic precipitators (ESPs), fabric filters (fabric filters), and wet flue gas desulfurization (w… more
Date: March 31, 2001
Creator: Farthing, G. A.; Amrhein, G. T.; Kudlac, G. A.; Yurchison, D. A.; McDonald, D. K. & Milobowski, M. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) Report; Big Island - The McKenzie River, Technical Report 1998-2001.

Description: The Big Island site is located in the McKenzie River flood plain, containing remnant habitats of what was once more common in this area. A diverse array of flora and fauna, representing significant wildlife habitats, is present on the site. Stands of undisturbed forested wetlands, along with riparian shrub habitats and numerous streams and ponds, support a diversity of wildlife species, including neotropical migratory songbirds, raptors, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians (including two State-li… more
Date: March 1, 2001
Creator: Sieglitz, Greg
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Planning for an integrated research experiment

Description: We describe the goals and research program leading to the Heavy Ion Integrated Research Experiment (IRE). We review the basic constraints which lead to a design and give examples of parameters and capabilities of an IRE. We also show design tradeoffs generated by the systems code IBEAM.
Date: March 25, 2001
Creator: Barnard, J. J.; Ahle, L. E.; Bangerter, R. O.; Bieniosek, F. M.; Celata, C. M.; Faltens, A. et al.
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["A Question of Loyalty" article, March 13, 2001]

Description: An article, written by Chris Bull for the LGBT magazine "The Advocate", that covers the Republican Unity Coalition, Log Cabin Republicans, and their members' responses to the new Bush administration. On the second page is an advertisement for a new movie.
Date: March 13, 2001
Creator: Bull, Chris
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Social Security Benefits Are Not Paid for the Month of Death: A Fact Sheet

Description: Social security benefits are not paid for the month in which a recipient dies. Legislation is routinely introduced that would either pay the full amount of the benefits for the month of death or pro-rate the benefits based on the proportion of the month that the recipient was alive.
Date: March 21, 2001
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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