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Ethylene dibromide
Title
Ethylene dibromide: Regulatory background
Date
1984
Summary
Since the Fall of 1983, there has been heightened public concern about the possible health effects of ethylene dibromide (EDB), a chemical which has caused cancer in laboratory animals. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned the pesticidal use of EDB for oil fumigation in September 1983 after discovering that EDB could migrate into groundwater supplies. In December 1983 that State of Florida stopped the sale of food products which contained any detectable levels of EDB, since no Federally approved safe levels had ever been established. In February and March of 1984 EPA banned most other pesticidal uses of EDB, and recommended certain residue levels as a guide to state actions. Since that time, some of the controversy has quieted. This paper addresses the background of EDB, its uses, and EPA's regulatory proposals and actions.
Explanation of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985--Public Law 99-177 (The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act)
Title
Explanation of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985--Public Law 99-177 (The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act)
Date
1985
Summary
This report explains briefly the major features of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-177), commonly referred to as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act. Following a short overview of the deficit of fiscal years 1987-1991 (and the accelerated timetable for fiscal year 1986), compute the required spending reductions, and summarizes the sequestration exempted from emergency deficit reduction procedures and those that have special rules for making reductions.
Effect of the General Education Procedures Act contingent extension provision upon current Higher Education Act programs
Title
Effect of the General Education Procedures Act contingent extension provision upon current Higher Education Act programs
Date
1986
Summary
This report provides a legal analysis of certain questions regarding the effect of the contingent extension provision of the General Education Procedures Act (GEPA), 20 U.S.C $ 1226a, upon current Higher Education Act programs. The specific question which has been raised concerns the application of the two year authorization extension portion of the GEPA contingent extension provision to those Higher Education Act programs which are forward-funded and whose authorization of appropriations expired at the end of the fiscal year 1985. The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, 20 U.S.C. $ 1001 et seq., sets forth various programs of financial assistance to institution of higher education and to students of such institutions. Funding for such programs is accomplished through the appropriations process in several ways. Some Higher Education Act programs, such as Pell Grant, 20 U.S.C. $ 1070(a), and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, 20 U.S.C. $ 1070b et seq., are forward-funded. Other Higher Education Act programs, such as the Endowment Grants program, 20 U.S.C. $ 1065a, are current year funded. And, the Endowment Guaranteed Student Loan Program, 20 U.S.C. $ 1071 et seq., is an example of a Higher Education Act program which is funded on a "no year" basis, i.e., appropriated funds are available in the year of appropriation and remain available until expended.
Drunk driving
Title
Drunk driving: Editorial commentary (September 4, 1984 through December 17, 1984)
Date
1984
Summary
This Editorial Commentary includes editorials on the problem of drunk driving in the United States selected from 100 newspapers monitored by the Congressional Research Service. The Commentary is divided into four sections focusing on different aspects of the problem. The first section concentrates on general commentary on drunk driving, the second laws and legislative efforts, the third roadblocks and their legality, and the final one the elimination of "happy hours" at bars. The editorials are arranged chronologically within each section.
Drought of 1983
Title
The drought of 1983: Impact on selected states for selected crops
Date
1983
Excepted hiring within certain offices of the Department of Education, as proposed by H.R. 2246 and S. 1965, 99th Congress
Title
Excepted hiring within certain offices of the Department of Education, as proposed by H.R. 2246 and S. 1965, 99th Congress
Date
1986
Impact of legislative changes on major programs administered by the Department of Education
Title
Impact of legislative changes on major programs administered by the Department of Education: Fiscal years 1980-1988
Date
1987
Summary
This analysis describes the impact of legislative changes on 17 major programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education since its creation in 1980. Explanatory material is given for each program. Tables show annual appropriations from FY 1980, as well as the FY 1988 budget request, with adjustments for inflation. These programs account for approximately 90 percent of the Department's current budget.
Implementation of medicare's hospice benefit
Title
Implementation of medicare's hospice benefit
Date
1984
Summary
This document provides (1) background information on hospice care and a summary of current law provisions authorizing coverage for hospice care under Medicare; (2) information on the National Hospice Study; (3) information on the implementation of the hospice benefit; and (4) a discussion of hospice issues.
Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs)
Title
Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs): Proposed changes in House-passed Tax Reform Bill (H.R. 3838)
Date
1986
Summary
The House-passed tax reform bill (H.R. 3838) would make three changes in Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs): (1) correct an anomaly in the "spousal IRA," (2) coordinate certain "elective deferrals" to 401(k) plans and 403(b) annuities with the IRA deduction limits, and (3) increase the additional income tax on "early withdrawals" from 10 to 15 percent. Although the Administration an the House Committee on Ways and Means had common goals in developing changes to IRAs, their proposals differ. This paper discusses and analyzes these differences.
Insurance
Title
Insurance: An alphabetical microthesaurus of terms selected from the legislative indexing vocabulary
Date
1986
Summary
The microthesaurus is a compilation of terms from the Legislative Indexing Vocabulary on insurance. A number of liability terms are also included. These terms may be used in searching the CRS Bibliographic Data Base, the Bill Digest files, and the Major Issues System on SCORPIO.
The tax reform act of 1986 (h.r. 3838)
Title
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 (h.r. 3838): Effective versus statutory marginal tax rates
Date
1986
Summary
Under the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (H.R. 3838) there would be only two statutory marginal tax rates for individuals, 15 and 28 percent. In addition to reducing statutory marginal tax rates, H.R. 3838 would phase out certain tax provisions over various income ranges. These phaseout provisions would produce an effective marginal tax rate schedule considerably different from the statutory schedule. This paper describes the phaseout provisions contained in H.R. 3838 and analyzes their effects on marginal tax rates.
Labor standards
Title
Labor standards: Statistics concerning staffing and compliance activity by the United States Department of Labor, 1976-1986
Date
1986
Summary
This report presents a statistical review of the pattern of staffing and enforcement/compliance activity within the United States Department of Labor through fiscal years 1976 to 1986. It notes the work hours required to administer the following statutes: the Fair Labor Standards Act; the several Federal procurement labor standards statutues -- the Davis-Bacon Act, the Walsh-Healy Act, and the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act; and the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act and its successor, after 1983, the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act. It also notes the number of violations of the several acts and the dollar amounts of back wages involved, where applicable. All tables have been developed from data provided by the Wage and Hour Division, United States Department of Labor.
Joint and several liability under the Superfund Act
Title
Joint and several liability under the Superfund Act
Date
1985
Joint sessions and joint meetings of Congress, April 6, 1789 - January 27, 1987
Title
Joint sessions and joint meetings of Congress, April 6, 1789 - January 27, 1987
Date
1987
Joint and several liability
Title
Joint and several liability: Recent changes in state tort law
Date
1987
Summary
About half the states have recently modified or eliminated their laws on joint and several liability. In these states, if two or more defendants contribute to a tort, then, at least in some circumstances, each is liable only in proportion to his share of responsibility, instead of 100 percent liable.
Decree of the Inquisition in Mexico
Title
Decree of the Inquisition in Mexico
Date
1574
Household accounting document.
Title
Household accounting document.
Date
1503
Summary
Alcala de Henares, Spain. Isabel I, Queen of Spain. Document on paper, in Spanish, signed "Yo la Reyna." Alcalá de Henares, 12 July 1503. Folio (29.3 cm). On the first two and a half pages the queen orders Sancho de Paredes, her chamberlain, to turn a large number of things over to Juan de Tabira, her under-chamberlain. The items to be given are listed: woolens and linens, including hangings and bedding linens, all itemized and minutely described. The top half of the last page is a receipt signed by Tabira. The document has the usual slash of cancellation (visible above) indicating that it has been entered into the account books.
Homeless
Title
The homeless: Editorial commentary
Date
1986
Summary
Homelessness is sometimes the condition of the deinstitutionalized mentally ill, the aged, the voluntarily idle, and the temporarily unemployed; and of runaway youth, destitute families, drug addicts, street beggars and alcoholics--in urban and rural areas. There appears to be no single set of characteristics shared by the homeless except being poor and without housing, and often lacking food and medical care as well. This Editorial Commentary looks at the "problems" of the homeless and those who search for remedies using selected editorials. It also covers actions taken by local and State governments to address the problems. The Editorial Commentary includes an introductory section of newspaper articles on the homeless. It is divided into sections - one focusing on the problem; the other on actions that have been taken to deal with the problem. Both sections are arranged in reverse chronological order. The editorials were selected from the editorial collection maintained by the Library Services Division.
Housing assistance
Title
Housing assistance: A brief history and description of current HUD programs
Date
1987
Summary
Federal assistance to housing for low-income families began with the United States Housing Act of 1937 (P.L. 75-412) which provided funds for construction and administration of low-rent projects by local, State-chartered public housing agencies (PHA). This report is concerned with those subsidy programs administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and whether as presently constituted they best serve the housing needs of the Nation's low-income families.
Legality of receiving satellite signals carrying cable programs
Title
Legality of receiving satellite signals carrying cable programs
Date
1984
Summary
The right of satellite dish owners to tune into cable programs being relayed by satellite signals has been the subject of extensive consideration by the 98th Congress. On October 30, 1984, enactment of Public Law No. 98-549, effective on December 29, 1984, provided a statutory right of backyard dish owners to watch cable programming being carried by the unencrypted satellite signals. However, if the owners to the rights of such programming establish a marketing system for the sale of such viewing rights, the dish owners are obligated to purchase such rights at the agreed upon price. The report briefly discusses the provisions and context of this new law. A more in-depth analysis of the subject area is contained in the CRS report entitled Unauthorized Reception of Communications Satellite Signals Carrying Video Programs dated August 6, 1984 (before passage of the new law).

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