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Title: The "gender gap": Differences between men and women in political attitudes and voting behavior
Date: 1983
Summary: This report examines the differences between men and women in their attitudes towards President Reagan, opinions on issues, party identification, turnout and voting behavior in the 1980 and 1982 elections. Poll results collected over the past three decades are used to compare the current differences between men and women in attitudes towards President Reagan, economic policies, social issues and the use of military force with their views towards previous Presidents, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and other foreign and economic policy issues.

Title: Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and Department of Education programs
Date: 1986
Summary: This paper describes the application of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, P.L. 99-177, popularity called "Gramm-Rudman-Hollings," to programs administered by the Department of Education, particularly, it will focus on provisions establishing "emergency powers to eliminate deficits in excess of maximum deficit amounts." All of the programs within the Department's jurisdiction are subject to the automatic spending reduction provisions of this law. Two programs are subject to special treatment, the Guaranteed Student Loan and the Vocational Rehabilitation State grant program. The remaining programs are subject to a uniform percentage reduction, estimated to be 4.3 percent for FY 1986.

Title: The Dow Jones industrial average
Date: 1986
Summary: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is the oldest and most commonly known index of the day-to-day overall price performance of stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. This stock price index has undergone much change since its inception. This report examines the evolution of the stock index's components, and method of calculation. It also briefly addresses the issue of the index's usefulness.

Title: The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings amendment for budget deficit control: Editorial commentary
Date: 1985
Summary: This illustrative collection of editorials is taken from newspapers monitored by CRS. The sources look at the controversy surrounding the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings amendment to the debt limit increase for the purpose of reducing budget deficits and balancing the budget by 1991. An introductory section contains newspaper articles presenting press coverage on the issue. The articles and editorials are arranged chronologically, with the most recent dates appearing first. [Current Editorial CE79 on budget deficits is also available; it includes editorials on this topic received in Library Services since November 1, 1985.]

Title: The Reagan strategy for economic revitalization: The results thus far
Date: 1983
Summary: In 1981 President Reagan instituted a strategy for economic revitalization which was a major departure from the economic policies followed by previous administrations. In essence, the program sought to reduce substantially the economic burdens of Government spending, taxation, and regulation in order to create an economic environment that would reduce inflation and interest rates, revive incentives for Americans to work harder, spur greater savings, and revive and greatly increase business investment. This paper reviews and analyzes the results of the Reagan Administration's economic strategy thus far.

Title: The U.S. Filipino population, by congressional district
Date: 1986
Summary: Table 1 of this CRS Report gives the total population of each 99th Congress district and the number and percent of the population who are of Filipino origin or descent, as self-identified in the 1980 census. The districts are ranked according to these numbers and percents, with one being the highest rank. Table 2 ranks 99th Congress districts in descending order, from the district with the largest number of Filipinos to the district with the smallest number. Table 3 ranks 99th Congress districts in descending order, from the district with the highest percent of Filipinos in the total population to that with the lowest percent.

Title: The U.S. business cycle: Selected economic relationships
Date: 1986
Summary: This report breifly examines the relationship between selected economic time series and the U.S. business cycle.

Title: The Reagan approach to housing
Date: 1987
Summary: There have been marked changes in the Federal Government's role in housing since 1981. Inflation, Federal budget deficits, slow income growth, public disenchantment with programs for the poor -- these and other factors would have compelled shifts in social programs such as housing regardless of the group who controlled the White House. But many of the housing programs in place in 1981 were essentially incompatible with the philosophy of the Reagan team. This paper identifies some of the major changes brought about or proposed by this Administration and the rationale for these efforts.

Title: The U.S. Asian population, by census division, state and congressional district
Date: 1986

Title: The Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 and the poultry and egg industries: Current law and proposed changes
Date: 1986
Summary: The basic intent of H.R. 2970 is to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, as amended (7 U.S.C. 181), to extend the existing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Packers and Stockyards Administration over the poultry and egg industries. This report gives a brief legislative history of the Packers and Stockyards Act, discusses the major features of the proposed bill, and presents the views of the various groups that would be affected by the proposal if it became law. A side-by-side comparison of current law and H.R. 2970 is attached.

Title: RoostermanFamily1758p0006
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Title: The Handicapped Children's Protection Act of 1986: The constitutionality of its retroactive authorization of awards of attorneys' fees
Date: 1987
Summary: In 1986, Congress, overturning a Supreme Court decision, authorized courts to award attorney's fees to prevailing plaintiffs in actions or proceedings brought under the Education of the Handicapped Act. This report examines whether retroactive application of the 1986 Act, to the date of the Supreme Court decision, is constitutional.

Title: RoostermanFamily1758p0015
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Title: Manuscript concerning the heraldry and genealogy of the Roosterman family.
Date: 1758

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