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U.S. political programs : functions and assessments / Julianna M. Moretti and Karen J. Chordstron, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American political, economic, and security issues series.
- American political, economic, and security issues series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Economic policy--21st century.
- United States.
- United States--Social policy--21st century.
- United States--Foreign relations--21st century.
- United States--Politics and government--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text presents and discusses various economic policies in North America. Topics discussed include the Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program and Federal Technology R&D programs, the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Technology Innovation Program.
- Contents:
- Intro
- U.S. POLITICAL PROGRAMS: FUNCTIONS AND ASSESSMENTS
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- SENATE CONSIDERATION OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS: COMMITTEE AND FLOOR PROCEDURE
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- RECEIPT AND REFERRAL
- COMMITTEE PROCEDURES
- Written Rules
- Investigations
- Hearings
- Reporting
- FLOOR PROCEDURES
- Executive Calendar
- Executive Session
- Taking up a Nomination
- Holds
- Consideration and Disposition
- Recommital
- Reconsideration
- Cloture
- NOMINATIONS RETURNED TO THE PRESIDENT
- RECESS APPOINTMENTS
- RELATED CRS REPORTS
- REFERENCES
- THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, THE APOLLO PROGRAM AND FEDERAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY R&
- D PROGRAMS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
- THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
- THE APOLLO PROGRAM
- ENERGY TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, THE APOLLO PROGRAM, AND FEDERAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY R&
- D
- Funding
- Threat Perception
- Goal Clarity
- Technology Customer
- IMPLICATIONS FOR CONGRESS
- CONGRESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- THE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PROGRAM
- BACKGROUND
- A DIFFERENT APPROACH
- ISSUES AND OBSERVATIONS
- MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION
- MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
- OVERVIEW
- MCC BACKGROUND
- MCC IMPLEMENTATION
- Selection of Candidate Countries
- Country Selection Criteria and Methodology
- Selecting Eligible Countries
- Country Selection - FY2009
- MCC Compacts and Program Proposals
- Compact Descriptions
- Madagascar
- Honduras
- Cape Verde
- Nicaragua
- Georgia
- Armenia
- Vanuatu
- Ghana
- Benin
- Mali
- El Salvador
- Mozambique
- Lesotho
- Morocco
- Mongolia
- Tanzania
- Burkina Faso
- Namibia
- "Threshold" Countries and Programs
- SELECT ISSUES
- Funding.
- MCC Request and Congressional Action for FY2009
- MCC Request and Congressional Action for FY2010
- Authorizing Legislation and MCC Reform
- Compact Size
- Speed of Implementation
- Compact Sectors
- Compact Impact
- Changing Costs
- Role of USAID and the Future of Agency Programs in MCC Countries
- PEACEKEEPING/STABILIZATION AND CONFLICT TRANSITIONS:BACKGROUND AND CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON THE CIVILIAN RESPONSE/RESERVE CORPS AND OTHER CIVILIAN STABILIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION CAPABILITIES
- Evolving Perceptions of Post-Conflict Needs [3]
- Calls for Change
- Proposals for New Civilian Forces
- Critics Respond
- Creating Civilian Reconstruction and Stabilization Capabilities: Congressional and Executive Actions, 2004-2007
- The "Lugar-Biden" Legislation
- S/CRS Start-Up and Early Congressional Mandate
- 2004 Congressional Mandate
- S/CRS Role in Interagency Coordination
- CODIFYING CIVILIAN RECONSTRUCTION AND STABILIZATION ASSISTANCE AND STATE DEPARTMENT
- Capabilities: Title XVI, P.L. 110-417, October 14, 2008
- Makes S/CRS a Permanent State Department Office and Assigns Specific Functions
- Authorizes a Civilian Response Readiness Corps and a Civilian Reserve Corps
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE S/CRS OFFICE, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND CAPABILITIES
- Monitoring and Planning for Potential Conflicts
- Developing and Carrying Out Conflict Response Activities
- The Response Corps Pilot Project
- Other Activities
- CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE CIVILIAN RESPONSE CORPS (CRC)
- Initial CRC Funding: FY2008 and FY2009
- FY2010 Budget Request
- Establishing the Civilian Response Corps Active Response Component (CRC-A)
- Establishing the Civilian Response Corps Standby Component (CRC-S)
- Establishing a Civilian Reserve Capability
- CONGRESSIONAL ACTION FOR FY2010.
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, FY2010-FY2011 (H.R.2410)
- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS
- S/CRS Capacity and Status
- Appropriate Size for the Civilian Response Corps
- Flexible Funding for CRC Operations
- Further Authority and Funding for the Reserve Component
- AMERICA COMPETES ACT AND THE FY2010 BUDGET
- OVERVIEW OF THE AMERICA COMPETES ACT
- OVERVIEW OF FY2008 AND FY2009 APPROPRIATIONS
- OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BUDGET REQUEST
- Research
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
- Budget Resolution
- Appropriations Committee
- Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
- Future Activities
- Issues for Congress
- EMPLOYMENT-BASED HEALTH COVERAGE AND HEALTH REFORM: SELECTED LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
- THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT (ERISA)
- Overview of ERISA Preemption
- ERISA PREEMPTION AND HEALTH REFORM
- ERISA and Current State Health Reform Efforts
- ERISA and National Health Reform Efforts
- FEDERAL TAX TREATMENT FOR EMPLOYER-PROVIDED HEALTH CARE INSURANCE
- Employer Paid Health Insurance Premiums
- Premium Conversion
- Employment and Unemployment Taxes
- Incentives for Employees to Elect Employer-provided Health Insurance
- Incentives for Employers to Offer Health Insurance
- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND AMERICAN DIPLOMACY: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES FOR CONGRESS
- OVERVIEW OF U.S. INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (S&
- T) POLICY ORGANIZATIONS
- Department of State (DOS)
- Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES)
- Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State (STAS)
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
- Role of Other Federal Agencies and Nongovernmental Organizations
- OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ACTIONS
- ROLE OF CONGRESS
- S&
- T Expertise, Presence, and Global Engagement at DOS
- T Capacity at USAID
- International S&
- T Policy Direction and Federal Coordination at OSTP and NSTC
- New Institute to Support Technology Research
- Additional Considerations
- THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: AN ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT
- PRE-NSC COORDINATION METHODS
- The Need for Interdepartmental Coordination
- Past Modes of Policy Coordination
- THE CREATION OF THE NSC [5]
- Introduction
- Proposals
- Congressional Consideration
- The NSC as Created in 1947
- THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, 1947-2009
- The Truman NSC, 1947-1953
- The Eisenhower NSC, 1953-1961
- The Kennedy NSC, 1961-1963
- The Johnson NSC, 1963-1969
- The Nixon NSC, 1969-1974
- The Ford NSC, 1974-1977
- The Carter NSC, 1977-1981 [30]
- The Reagan NSC, 1981-1989
- The George H.W. Bush NSC, 1989-1993
- The Clinton NSC, 1993-2001
- The George W. Bush NSC, 2001-2009
- The Obama NSC, 2009-
- OVERVIEW OF CURRENT NSC FUNCTIONS
- NSC Executive and Congressional Liaison
- The NSC and International Economic Issues
- The Growing Importance of Law Enforcement Issues
- The Role of the National Security Adviser
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX A. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISERS
- THE GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS INITIATIVE: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES FOR CONGRESS
- Purposes and Goal
- Achievements to Date
- Funding to Date
- GPOI PURPOSES AND ACTIVITIES
- GPOI Goals and Needs
- Demand for Peacekeepers.
- Need for Gendarme/Constabulary Forces
- U.S. Peacekeeping Training and Assistance, Pre-GPOI, in Sub- Saharan Africa
- The Transition to GPOI Training and Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Development of a "Beyond Africa" Program
- Western Hemisphere
- Asia/South Asia/Pacific Islands
- Greater Europe (Europe and Eurasia)
- Middle East
- Foreign Contributions to Peacekeeping Capacity Building
- Italian Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU)
- ADMINISTRATION FUNDING REQUESTS AND CONGRESSIONAL ACTION
- FY2005-FY2009 GPOI Funding
- FY2010 Funding Request
- Congressional Action in the 111th Congress
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 (Section 1108, H.R. 2410)
- Issues for the 111th Congress
- HEALTH CARE REFORM: AN INTRODUCTION
- THREE PREDOMINANT CONCERNS
- Coverage
- Cost and Spending
- Quality
- SOME LIKELY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
- The Scope of Reform
- Public or Private Insurance
- Employment-Based Insurance
- The Role of States
- THE COST OF REFORM
- CONGRESSIONAL PROPOSALS
- APPENDIX A. OVERVIEW OF HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE
- APPENDIX B. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE UNINSURED
- APPENDIX C. DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62257-125-8
- OCLC:
- 839305474
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