This article examines the regional basis of US tariff policy as reflected in the 1987 vote in the House of Representatives on the Gephardt Amendment to the 1988 Omnibus Trade Act. The Amendment was a major prot
One consolation to all this “Gulf of America” nonsense was that, as something done by executive order, it would be just as easy to undo when all of this is over.Was. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would codify the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico...
Another possibility lies with Congress, which has the ability to expand the number of people in the House of Representatives, bringing the number of electors more in proportion to the actual population. The House of Representatives has remained capped at 435 since 1929. Since then, the population...
"The House of Representatives would be expected to prioritize the legislation for a Constitutional referendum, presidential, and parliamentary elections." "Within a year from now, we must reach the final stages of the process. These are a referendum for the adoption of the constitution, and then,...
Congressional redistricting — the process of redrawing the nation’s 435 congressional districts to reflect the results of the 2020 census — is not quite finishe…
The gut is the richest ecosystem of microbes in the human body and has great influence on our health. Despite many efforts, the set of microbes inhabiting this environment is not fully known, limiting our ability to identify microbial content and to rese
"Flood map modernization: Program strategy shows promise, but challenges remain." Rep. to the Chair- man, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, Com- mittee on Financial Services, House of Representatives Rep. No. GAO-04-417, U. S. General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C....
Based on 98 public and internal small RNA high throughput sequencing libraries, we mapped small RNAs to the genome of the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana and defined loci based on their expression using an empirical Bayesian approach. The resulting l
The third chapter is the core of this book and it introduces a fine-grained ontological exploration of BMI. Specifically, this chapter focuses on the results of our systematic literature review and the related thematic and the ontological analyses of the 156 papers selected for this research. With...
Wind-related disasters are one of the most frequent disasters in Indonesia. It can cause severe damages of residential construction, especially in the world’s most populated island of Java. Understanding the characteristics of extreme winds is crucial for mitigating the disasters and for defining str...