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Title: Drug and alcohol abuse: Prevention, treatment, and education
Date: 1986
Summary: The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, P.L. 99-570, authorizes a wide-ranging Federal effort to prevent and control substance abuse. This paper describes the background and development of Federal support for substance abuse education, prevention, and treatment programs and activities, including provisions for such support in P.L. 99-570.

Title: Legal issues and legislation concerning use of backyard satellite earth stations to receive cable television programs
Date: 1985

Title: Legislative vetoes enacted after Chadha
Date: 1987
Summary: This report identifies the legislative vetoes that have been enacted into law after the Supreme Court, in INS v. Chadha (1983), which held the legislative veto unconstitutional. Most of the legislative vetoes enacted after Chadha vest the veto power in committees or subcommittees of Congress.

Title: Administering an acid rain superfund: Preliminary analysis of potential o & m costs and other concerns
Date: 1983

Title: Housing and housing finance: An alphabetical microthesaurus of terms selected from the legislative indexing vocabulary
Date: 1986
Summary: The microthesaurus identifies terms on housing and housing finance in the Legislative Indexing Vocabulary. It also includes terms on real estate and land use. The terms may be used in searching the CRS Bibliographic Data Base, the Bill Digest files, and the Major Issues System on SCORPIO.

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

Title: Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861: a monograph of the great rebellion

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 data of the Supreme Court decision, is constitutional.

Title: Private school enrollments: A review of selected data
Date: 1985
Summary: This paper provides a brief overview of selected data on the following aspects of private elementary and secondary school enrollment: numbers of students, enrollment of minority (blacks and Spanish origin) students, enrollment in religiously affiliated private schools, and enrollment of students from families with different levels of annual income. Where appropriate, comparisons are made to enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools.

Title: A History of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas: being an account of the early settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and times of peace

Title: Jobs and the economic recovery: How have industries, regions, and workers fared?
Date: 1985
Summary: After nearly three years of economic expansion, there has been widespread failure across manufacturing industries and regions to fully recoup their precession employment levels. Even if each manufacturing industry eventually recovers all its jobs losses in the same regions in which the lay offs occurred -- a very unlikely assumption -- dislocated workers probably will be unable to await their recall by former employers; instead, they will have to take new jobs in different industries, occupations, or areas. While the greater availability of jobs since the recovery began has enabled a majority of dislocated workers to be reemployed, dislocated workers today represent about 1 out of every 10 employed workers.

Title: Hold the phone: The federal excise tax on telephone service; a history and discussion of issues
Date: 1984
Summary: In April 1984 the House of Representatives passed the Tax Reform Act of 1984 (H.R. 4170) and the Senate its Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 (an amendment to H.R. 2163, a bill to amend the Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971), both of which provide for the continuation of the excise tax on telephone service at its 3-percent rate for an additional two years, through 1987. This action was deemed appropriate by congress in light of the large existing budgetary deficits. This paper presents an overall view of the Federal excise tax on telephone service. A description of the history of this tax and revenue collections are followed by an explanation to clarify the relationship of this tax to the U.S. actions in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s. Finally, this paper concludes with the principal arguments made by proponents for continuation of the tax and the opponents of the tax who support repeal.

Title: General Fremont, and the injustice done him by politicians and envious military men

Title: Recent judicial expansions of tort law in the area of environmental pollution
Date: 1986
Summary: This report assesses whether increased losses of liability insurers may be due in part to expanded tort-law interpretations in the field of environmental pollution. It concludes that there has indeed been such an expansion in recent decades, but numerous other factors may also be contributing to the claimed liability insurance crisis.

Title: In vitro fertilization and human embryo transfer: Current status and issues
Date: 1985
Summary: The techniques used in In Virtro Fertilization (IVF) have expanded significantly since the birth in 1978 of the first so-called "test-tube" baby. Technical advances, such as the use of a freezing technique known as cryopreservation and the application of drugs to stimulate the maturation of multiple ova during a woman's menstrual cycle, have contributed to improved successful pregnancy rates and also to wider uses of IVF as a means of treating infertility. This paper describes the techniques currently being used in this area of reproduction and also presents some of the problems associated with the uses of these techniques.