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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).
Legal and constitutional issues involved in the regulation of indecent or obscene cable television programs
Title
Legal and constitutional issues involved in the regulation of indecent or obscene cable television programs
Date
1985
Fifty state survey of state statutes concerning venereal disease as it may relate to AIDS
Title
Fifty state survey of state statutes concerning venereal disease as it may relate to AIDS
Date
1987
Legal analysis of proposal to repeal deferral authority under the Impoundment Control Act
Title
Legal analysis of proposal to repeal deferral authority under the Impoundment Control Act
Date
1986
Legislative activity in the 98th Congress concerning religious activities in the public schools
Title
Legislative activity in the 98th Congress concerning religious activities in the public schools
Date
1984
Certified copy of his Agreement
Title
Certified copy of his Agreement
Date
1598
Grant of weekly market and two annual fairs...
Title
Grant of weekly market and two annual fairs...
Date
1554-04-24
Summary
Document signed ('Marye the quene'). 17 lines in a neat secretary hand, on paper, countersigned by Sir John., A grant of a weekly Friday market and two annual fairs to Lyme Regis. Mary gives a warrant to an unidentified official to draw up the grant for the town of ’Kings Lyme’ [Lyme Regis] of a weekly Friday market and two annual three-day fairs in February and September: the grants to include all stallage, piccage [a fee for breaking ground at a fair], tollage and customs with the court of piepowder [a special tribunal for actions during the market or fair], as well as the right of correcting weights and measures; those attending the fairs may not be ’suyd arrested or molested in any suyte ... except it be for acc[i]ons and suyts onely rysyng... w[i]t[h]in the seid Fayers’. ’Where at the humble suyte and peticion of the Burgesses of our Towne of Kings Lyme in our Countie of Dorsett, we are right welle contented and pleaced ... to give and graunte unto the Burgesses of our seid Towne and to their Successours forev[er] one m[ar]kett to be kepte weekely w[ith]in our seid Towne on the Friday forev[er], And also t[w]o Fayres yerely there to be holden and kept, that is to say thone Fayre to begynne the firste day of February yerely forev[er], And there to conynue three dayes then next folowyng, And thother Fayre to begynne the xx [20th] day of September yerely and there to continue for three days then next folowyng’. The grant for Lyme Regis was formally issued on 14 June. This charter falls at a lull in the turbulent first year of Mary's reign, between the quelling of Wyatt's Rebellion in February and the preparations for her marriage to Philip of Spain in July.
Grant of Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily
Title
Grant of Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily
Date
1421
Summary
"Grant by Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily, "the Magnanimous", to Rambau de Corbera (Rambaldus de Corbaria), of a vast territory in Sardinia, in Gallura, comprising a number of depopulated villages from the environs of the present Santa Teresa Gallura (in the northern point of Sardinia) to the environs of the present Castelsardo.
Grant of Arms
Title
Grant of Arms
Date
1559
Leadership in Educational Administration Development Program
Title
Leadership in Educational Administration Development Program: A summary of provisions
Date
1987
Summary
This paper summarizes the provisions of the Leadership in Educational Administration Development program. This program funds technical assistance centers in each State to enhance the leadership skills of elementary and secondary school administrators, such as principals.
Summary and analysis of the Foreign Language Assistance for National Security Act of 1983
Title
Summary and analysis of the Foreign Language Assistance for National Security Act of 1983: A comparison to previous proposals and commission recommendations
Date
1984
Summary
On February 23, 1984, the House of Representatives, passed the Foreign Language Assistance for National Security Act of 1983. This paper presents an analysis of this bill, as well as: (1) a review of the findings and recommendations by national commissions on the status of foreign language achievement and international studies ; (2) a description of current Federal programs and other major legislative proposals in this area; and (3) an analysis of the pending legislation in light of other similar proposals and the various commissions' findings and recommendations.
Summary and analysis of the Parental and Disability Leave Act of 1985, H.R. 2020, 99th Congress
Title
Summary and analysis of the Parental and Disability Leave Act of 1985, H.R. 2020, 99th Congress
Date
1985
Summary
Due to changes in the labor force behavior of women with young children, new employee benefits related to parenthood have been proposed. The establishment of a non-discriminatory parental leave benefit is intended to address the issue of limited availability of childcare; the establishment of a non-discriminatory leave for all temporary, nonoccupational medical reasons would create a standard disability benefit for all workers. This report summarizes and analyzes legislation proposed in the 99th Congress to create these benefits.
Statements by President Reagan relating to arms control
Title
Statements by President Reagan relating to arms control: February 2, 1985 - December 31, 1985
Date
1986
Summary
This collection includes statements and addresses by President Reagan from Feburary 2, 1985, through December 31, 1985, on a broad range of topics related to arms control. All are taken from volume 21 of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. The date and setting of each are cited, along with the Weekly Compilation issue and page on which the quote can be found. Addresses, announcements, and interviews relating solely to arms control are included in their entirety. Short passages from speeches and interviews are identified as excerpts. Those quotes from White House press releases that were not actually delivered by President Reagan are so identified.
Summary of "involvement in learning: realizing the potential of American higher education
Title
A summary of "involvement in learning: realizing the potential of american higher education: The final report of the Study Group on the Conditions of Excellence in American Higher Education
Date
1984
Summary
This paper summarizes the final report of the Study Group on the Conditions of Excellence in American Higher Education. The report was released in October 1984 and represents the first of several studies on higher education quality that are anticipated over the next 18 months. The Study Group consisted of seven members appointed by the Director of the National Institute of Education.
Summary of congressional and executive branch action affecting military retirement cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) since 1983
Title
Summary of congressional and executive branch action affecting military retirement cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) since 1983
Date
1986
Manuscript compilation of documents relating to the estate of Ana Vanegas
Title
Manuscript compilation of documents relating to the estate of Ana Vanegas
Date
1606
Burlington committee of the town of Burlington v. Department of Education of Massachusetts
Title
Burlington committee of the town of Burlington v. Department of Education of Massachusetts: Reimbursement may be allowed for unilateral private school placement
Date
1985
Budget documents primer
Title
Budget documents primer
Date
1984
Summary
The primer describes basic budget documents, providing notes on content, usual date of issue, distribution, and availability at the Library of Congress.
Acid rain in the 100th Congress
Title
Acid rain in the 100th Congress: Comparison of the major provisions of S. 95, S. 300, S. 316, and S. 321
Date
1987
Summary
The following is a comparison of four acid rain control bills: S. 95 (Kerry), S. 300 (Stafford), S. 316 (Proxmire), and S. 3221 (Mitchell). The comparison is focused on prominent features of the various bills, not on section by section similarities and differences among the bills. Also, apparently non-controversial aspects of the bills, such as penalties for non-compliance, were not included. The bills are compared in the order in which they were introduced. There are two important notes about this comparison. First, as each bill would amend the Clean Air Act, section number references made in this analysis are made to relevant sections of the Clean Air Act. Second, under general provisions, issues raised are in rank order as they appear in various bills. They are not ordered according to importance. For the reader's convenience, the headings used in this comparison are arranged so that the bills may be placed side-by-side, if so desired.

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