Current Topics Archives

Current Topic: Same-Sex Marriage

• Defense of Marriage Act of 1996: the full text of the Federal law

• Defense of Marriage Act: Update to Prior Report: 2004 General Accounting Office report listing Federal Statutes where marriage is an explicit legal factor

• Defense of Marriage Act: Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 108th Congress, second session, March 30, 2004. Full text of subcommittee hearings on the staus of DOMA

• Marriage Protection Act of 2004: Report Together with Dissenting Views: Report/108th Congress, 2d session, House of Representatives ; 108-614

• Judicial Activism vs. Democracy: What are the National Implications of the Massachusetts Goodridge Decision and the Judicial Invalidation of Traditional Marriage Laws?: hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 03/04/2004

• Massachusetts vs. United States Department of Health & Human Services: full text of the Massachusetts legal challenge to DOMA

• California: Proposition 8: Full text of the California State constitutional amendment banning sam-sex marriage

• Proposition 8 Cases: California Supreme Court archive of documents and filings related to Proposition 8

• United States District Court Ruling on Proposition 8, issued 08/05/2010

• Iowa Supreme Court: Full-text of 2007 which granted Iowa same-sex couples the right to apply form marriage licenses

• Iowa State Supreme Court: Full text of 2009 ruling upholding the rights of same-sex couples

• An Act Relating to Civil Marriage: As passed by the state of Vermont, April 7, 2009

• The Economic Impact of Extending Marriage to Same-Sex Couples in Vermont: Issued by the Williams Institute,UCLA School of Law, March 2009

• District of Coumbia: Full text of the Religious Freedom and Civil Marrtiage Equality Amendment Act of 2009

• New Hampshire: Full text of HB 0437, an act permitting same gender couples to enter civil unions and have the same rights, responsibilities, and obligations as married couples.

Current Topic: Immigration Reform

• Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Speech by President Obama, 07/01/2010

• House Resolution 1026: House resolution on immigration reform; introduced 01/21/2010)

• Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Government Perspectives of Immigration Statistics: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizernship, Refugees, Border Security & International Law, 06/06/2007

• Is the Federal Government Doing All it Can to Stop the Flow of Illegal Immigration? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, 07/25/2006

• U.S. Economy, U.S. Workers, and Immigration Reform: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizernship, Refugees, Border Security & International Law, 06/06/2007

• Congressional Resolution 19: Expressing the sense of the Congress that State and local governments should be supported for taking actions to discourage illegal immigration
  and that legislation should be enacted to ease the burden on State and local governments for taking such actions. (Entered to record 01/09/2009)

• Arizona Senate Bill 1070: Unoffical full text of the Arizona immigration reform bill; full text image supplied by the Arizona State Legislature

• Department of Justice Complaint: Filed against the State of Arizona, 07/06/2010

• Statement of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer: regarding the Department of Justice filing, issued 07/06/2010

• Arizona Border Security & Immigration Legal Defense Fund: issued by Governor of Arizona 05/26/2010

• The Role of State & Local Law Enforcement on Immigration Law: Hearing of the Committee on Homeland Security, March 4, 2010

• Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Perspectives from Faith-Based and Immigrant Communities; hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, 05/27/2007

• Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Business Community Perspectives: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law , 06/06/2007

• Preliminary injunction against enforcement of part of the Arizona law, issued 07/28/2010

Current Topic: Bullying in U.S. Schools

• School-Based Programs to Reduce Bullying and Victimization; Document prepared for the Department of Justice, 01/2010

• Strenghtening School Safety Through Prevention of Bullying; Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, 7/08/2009

• Bullying in Schools: Document prepared for the Department of Justice, 05/2009

• Student Victimization in Schools: Results From the 2007 School Crime Supplement
  to the National Crime Victimization Survey; issued 07/2010 by the National center for Education Statistics

• Safe Schools Improvement Act of 2010; Proposed legislation that would amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to include bullying and harassment prevention programs.

• Stop Bullying Now!: Website with resources for children, presented by the U.S> Health Resources & Services Administration

• Cyberbullying and Other Online Safety Issues for Children: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, 9/30/2009

• The Obama Administration's Education Agenda; Hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor, 5/20/2009