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JM-066: How to raise more taxes
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JM-066: How to raise more taxes
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Editorial cartoon depicting three different scenes. In the first panel, women re-entering the United States with Mexican divorce papers are charged a tariff on the divorce. In the middle panel, a nobleman is leaving his wife, an American heiress, at home to go and buy some cigarettes. In the bottom panel, two men discuss going home if the exchange rate gets any worse.
JM-078: Three scenes of Uncle Sam excluding immigrants
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JM-078: Three scenes of Uncle Sam excluding immigrants
Summary
Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes in three different panels. In the top panel, Uncle Sam stands in a garden of Americanism surrounded by crows labeled "Unassimilable Asiatic Immigration" and "Undesirable European Immigration." In the middle panel, Uncle Sam is putting up two signs along the coast: "Exclusion of Chinese" and "Exclusion of Japanese Immigrants" while a figure representing Japan, a country who also has exclusion signs for China and Korea, watches. In the third panel, the same figure from Japan gestures with an angry face and Japanese Emigrants behind him, while Uncle Sam proudly shows off a sign welcoming only particular groups of Japanese people: tourists, students, scientists, etc.
JM-314: Victories and defeat
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JM-314: Victories and defeat
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Editorial cartoon in two panels: U.S. wins battles in Pacific, loses them in Atlantic.
Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect, and climate
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Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect, and climate: A primer
Date
1984
Summary
The report summarizes the present state of knowledge with respect to research and assessment of carbon dioxide effects, articulating the areas of emerging consensus and continuing disagreement, and focusing attention on the crucial uncertainties. Key scientific, technical, and social issues of contemporary carbon dioxide/climate debate are identified, and the implications and options for dealing with the possible effects of carbon dioxide-induced climatic change are outlined.
Analysis of U.S. energy program funding for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 in the era of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
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An analysis of U.S. energy program funding for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 in the era of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
Date
1986
Alternative energy taxes
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Alternative energy taxes: Industry, regional and national impacts
Date
1986
Summary
A range of energy tax alternatives are discussed in this report. These tax alternatives cover the recent proposals for taxing energy to raise Treasury revenue and to achieve other energy policy goals. Each is evaluated in the context of various measures of economic impacts, varying from regional to macroeconomic, from ease of administration to income distribution.
Summary of oversight hearings on implementation of the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980
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Summary of oversight hearings on implementation of the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980
Date
1984
Picking up the tab
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Picking up the tab: The cost of acid rain legislation in indiana
Date
1984
The impact of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ...
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The impact of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ...: on selected federal research and development agencies and programs
Date
1986
Summary
This report examines the impact of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, on the FY86 budget of selected research and development (R&D) programs. The analysis of the report focuses on the likely scope of reprogramming, and its potential impact on each program or agency in general. The qualitative program analysis also tried to determine what research areas were likely to suffer most under Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and if the different R&D agencies planned to cut the number of research grans or the size of each grant and how either action might affect their programs.
Europ, and the cheife Cities contayned therin described
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Europ, and the cheife Cities contayned therin described: with the habits of most Kingdoms now in use. , Europe, and the chief cities contained therein, with the habits of most kingdoms now in use
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1626
Environmental protection issues of the 99th Congress
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Environmental protection issues of the 99th Congress
Date
1985
Airport relocation
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Airport relocation: Some economic effects, implications for the washington, d.c., metropolitan area
Date
1984
Summary
The transfer of air carrier service between airports in the same community is generally thought to have adverse economic effects on the airport losing service. This report briefly examines experience with airport relocation in four communities. Further, this experience is related to prospects for air carrier activity relocation in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area.*
Nonpoint source provisions of the clean water act amendments of 1987
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Nonpoint source provisions of the Clean Water Act amendments of 1987
Date
1987
Summary
The Clean Water Act Amendments of 1987 (P.L. 100-4) make control of nonpoint sources of water pollution a national policy. New section 319 creates a nonpoint source management program. While the primary responsibility for developing and implementing controls on nonpoint sources is vested with the States, the Environmental Protection Agency must approve the State programs and is authorized to provide technical and financial support. After three years, EPA is required to report to Congress on the program and its success.

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