Homeland Security: Coast Guard Operations - Background and Issues for Congress
This report discusses about background and issues on Homeland Security Coast Guard Operations which is led by a federal maritime homeland security including port security.
View ArticleDepartment of Homeland Security: Should the Transportation Security...
President George W. Bush has unveiled a plan to create a new Department of Homeland Security (H.R. 5005, introduced by request). The new department would be formed by consolidating all or part of 22 of...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Data on Employees and Unions Potentially Affected
This report provides data on federal employee unions and employees who would be potentially affected by the creation by the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security, as proposed by the President.
View ArticleHomeland Security: Data on Employees and Unions Potentially Affected
This report provides data on federal employee unions and employees who will be potentially affected by the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
View ArticleHomeland Security: Intelligence Support
Legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security includes provisions for an information analysis element within the new department. This report examines the information analysis function and...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Intelligence Support
This report examines the information analysis function and the sharing information among federal agencies but does not address provisions in the proposed legislation governing the sharing of...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Intelligence Support
This report examines the information analysis function and the sharing information among federal agencies but does not address provisions in the proposed legislation governing the sharing of...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Intelligence Support
Legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security includes provisions for an information analysis element within the new department. This report examines the information analysis function and...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Intelligence Support
Legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security includes provisions for an information analysis element within the new department. This report examines the information analysis function and...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Intelligence Support
Legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security includes provisions for an information analysis element within the new department. This report examines the information analysis function and...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Intelligence Support
Legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security includes provisions for an information analysis element within the new department. This report examines the information analysis function and...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Intelligence Support
Legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security includes provisions for an information analysis element within the new department. This report examines the information analysis function and...
View ArticleHomeland Security Extramural R&D Funding Opportunities in Federal Agencies
This report identifies and lists websites for major federal agency homeland security programs that provide funding opportunities for extramural researchers to conduct research and development (R&D)...
View ArticleThe Child Support Enforcement Program: A Fact Sheet
This report discusses the Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program, Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act, was enacted in January 1975 (P.L. 93-647).
View ArticleChild Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues
This report discusses the background, issues, enforcement and the reforms of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), signed into law on August 22,...
View ArticleChild Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues
This report describes several aspects of the revised CSE program and discusses three issues that probably will be reexamined by the 107th Congress — CSE financing, parental access by noncustodial...
View ArticleChild Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues
This report describes several aspects of the revised CSE program and discusses three issues that probably will be reexamined by the 107th Congress — CSE financing, parental access by noncustodial...
View ArticleChild Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues
This report describes several aspects of the revised CSE program and discusses three issues that probably will be reexamined by the 107th Congress — CSE financing, parental access by noncustodial...
View ArticleChild Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues
This report describes several aspects of the revised CSE program and discusses three issues that probably will be reexamined by the 107th Congress — CSE financing, parental access by noncustodial...
View ArticleChild Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues
This report describes several aspects of the revised CSE program and discusses three issues that probably will be reexamined by the 107th Congress — CSE financing, parental access by noncustodial...
View ArticleAdoption Promotion Legislation in the 105th Congress
President Clinton signed the Adoption and Safe Families Act into law on November 19, 1997, after the House and Senate approved final versions of the legislation on November 13. The new law (P.L....
View ArticleForeign Direct Investment in the U.S.: Japan as Number One
Japan emerged as the largest foreign direct investor in the U.S. economy in 1992, despite a sharp drop in the total value and number of U.S. businesses acquired and established by foreign investors....
View ArticleMixing Banking and Commerce Using Federal Deposit Insurance: Industrial Banks...
Despite explicit Federal legislation forbidding combining commercial banking with commerce, it remains possible through corporate ownership to combine two kinds of banks with nonbanking activities....
View ArticleSaving Rates: An International Comparison
An examination of estimates of saving published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reveals that the U.S. is one of the least thrifty of the major industrial nations....
View ArticleFair Trade in Financial Services: Legislation and the GATT
As many countries enjoy growing financial economies, American banking and securities firms feel excluded from them. Asian countries are perceived as being especially discriminatory against U.S....
View ArticleJapan's Banking Crisis: Causes and Probable Effects
Japan's banking sector currently is carrying between $400 billion and $800 billion in non-performing loans that threaten the solvency of certain financial institutions and weaken the Japanese financial...
View ArticleThe Daiwa Bank Problems: Background and Policy Issues
On November 2, 1995, U.S. banking authorities ordered the Daiwa Bank to close its banking operations in the United States, and a 24-count criminal indictment was issued against it. These actions stem...
View ArticleWorld Bank Lending to China
Lending to China from the multilateral development banks (MDBs) increased four-fold between 1985 and 1994, from $1.1 billion to $4.3 billion. China is now the MDBs' largest single borrower country....
View ArticleCredit Union Common Bond Ruling: NCUA v. First National Bank and Trust...
On February 25, 1998, the Supreme Court ruled that federal credit unions may not consist of more than one occupational group having a single common bond. On April 1, the House passed H.R. 1151 (H.Rept....
View ArticleBanking Acquisition and Merger Procedures
This report discusses in general terms the basic process and time line for banking industry acquisitions and mergers and briefly discusses the May 4, 1998 application by Travelers Group to merge with...
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