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Agriculture and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Control Act
Title
Agriculture and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Control Act
Date
1986
Summary
The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, also known as Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, subjects agriculture to the same budget reductions as other non-exempt programs ordered. However, due to the unique nature of the agriculture budget, special provisions were included on how to achieve those cuts in farm spending. This report discusses this new law with regard to agriculture programs. An updated version of this report will be issued when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announces how it will implement the across-the-board reductions.
Adoptees' right to receive medical information on their birth parents
Title
Adoptees' right to receive medical information on their birth parents
Date
1984
Advertising condoms
Title
Advertising condoms: Legal and constitutional considerations
Date
1987
Automated teller machine (ATM) security
Title
Automated teller machine (ATM) security: State and federal legislation
Date
1987
Summary
This report discusses federal and state legislative efforts and banking industry self-policing measures to combat crimes occurring to those using automated teller machines (ATMs).
Avoiding urban/rural wage inequities in determination of prevailing wage rates under the Davis-Bacon Act
Title
Avoiding urban/rural wage inequities in determination of prevailing wage rates under the Davis-Bacon Act
Date
1985
Summary
Through a rulemaking proceeding that has spanned nearly five years, the Secretary of Labor has fashioned regulations restricting the use of urban wage data in the determination of "prevailing" wage rates under the Davis-Bacon Act (P.L. 71-798, as amended). This paper traces the evolution of the urban/rural data controversy and reviews questions concerning legislative action on the issue.
Authority of the federal bank supervisory agencies under the Bank Protection Act, 12 U.S.C. 1881-1884, to promulgate rules...
Title
Authority of the federal bank supervisory agencies under the Bank Protection Act, 12 U.S.C. 1881-1884, to promulgate rules...: requiring banks to install security measures to protect customers using automatic teller machines (ATM's)
Date
1987
Summary
Although it is uncertain, it appears likely that a court would hold that the federal bank supervisory agencies would have the power under the Bank Protection Act to promulgate rules requiring banks to install security measures to protect customers using automatic teller machines.
Analysis of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment
Title
Analysis of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment: The "Hatch Amendment" - regarding student rights in federally funded educational research, experimental activities, and testing
Date
1986
Summary
This paper analyzes the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment -- popularly known as the "Hatch Amendment" -- and the U.S. Department of Education's implementing regulations regarding student rights in federally funded educational research, experimental activities, and testing. The legislative history of the amendment is presented, and the public response to the Department of Education's regulations that implement this amendment is discussed.
Arms control
Title
Arms control: Current editorials
Date
1987
Analysis and critique of National Organization for Raw Materials' (NORM) proposed National Economic Stability Act (NESA)
Title
Analysis and critique of National Organization for Raw Materials' (NORM) proposed National Economic Stability Act (NESA)
Date
1985
Summary
The purpose of this report is to explain, analyze, and critique the National Economic Stability Act proposed by the National Organization of Ray Materials (N.O.R.M.). N.O.R.M. believes that most of today's economic problems, such as high rates of bankruptcy, the negative balance of trade, unemployment, and spiraling public and private debt, are related to our Nation's treatment of agriculture and other raw material producers over a long period of time. When raw material prices are cheap, below "full honest parity," rural America is short of buying power, and urban businesses are unable to operate at full capacity without the economy going into debt. N.O.R.M. proposes replacing existing farm programs with a law prohibiting the sale of certain basic agricultural commodities at less than their parity price.
Airport relocation
Title
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.*
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and work
Title
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and work: Tables summarizing treatment of earnings
Date
1987
Counting migrant and seasonal farmworkers
Title
Counting migrant and seasonal farmworkers: A persistent data void
Date
1985
Summary
The Federal Government currently supports several ... [illegible] farmworkers and their families. Yet, the number ... [illegible]
Dislocated workers, involuntary part-time employment, and moonlighting
Title
Dislocated workers, involuntary part-time employment, and moonlighting
Date
1986
Summary
In recent years, the incidence of people employed part-time who want full-time work and people holding more than one job has risen. One popular belief relates these trends to worker displacement; that is, dislocated workers formerly employed in fairly high-paying, full-time jobs may be "forced" to take part-time jobs or to hold two jobs to earn as much as they had previously. To date, the data do not appear to confirm this association.
Defense reorganization
Title
Defense reorganization: Bibliography-in-brief, 1976-1987
Date
1987
Summary
This reading list presents information on the Department of Defense, various Defense Department reorganization proposals and considers likely changes in the defense establishment. It includes a section on the Joint Chief of Staff which presents recent assessments of JCS reform efforts.
Coverage of state and local governmental employees under fair labor standards act
Title
Coverage of state and local governmental employees under Fair Labor Standards Act
Date
1985
Employment discrimination and the United States Congress
Title
Employment discrimination and the United States Congress: A constitutional analysis of pending legislation
Date
1985
Estimated effects on Chapter 1, Education Consolidation and Improvement Act,...
Title
Estimated effects on Chapter 1, Education Consolidation and Improvement Act,...: Basic grant allocations of applying a two percent "absorption factor"
Date
1987
Summary
In its proposed amendments to the Federal program for the education of disadvantaged children, under chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, the Reagan Administration has recommended that a 2 percent "absorption factor" be applied to the allocation of funds. Thus, children counted for the distribution of basic grants would be considered only to the extent that they exceed 2 percent of a county's total school-age population. This report provides an analysis of the effects of this proposed formula change.
Environmental block grants
Title
Environmental block grants: A discussion of current issues
Date
1986
Espionage at the Moscow embassy
Title
Espionage at the Moscow embassy: Current editorials
Date
1987
Estimated impact aid payments under section 3 of P.L. 81-874
Title
Estimated impact aid payments under section 3 of P.L. 81-874: Comparison of the estimated FY 1988 payments under the Administration's FY 1988 budget proposal with the estimated FY 1987 payments under current law (F.L. 99-500)
Date
1987
Summary
Section 3 of P.L. 81-874 authorizes financial assistance for school maintenance and operations to school districts in areas where enrollments and local revenues are adversely affected by Federal activities. The adverse Federal effects may be that Federal ownership of property within the school district reduces local tax income for school purposes, or that a Federal activity causes an influx of persons into the community, resulting in an increased number of children to be educated. This report compares the estimated FY 1988 section 3 payments under the Administration's FY 1988 budget proposal with the estimated FY 1987 section 3 payments under current law (P.L. 99-500).

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