War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance (open access)

War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance

This report gives a summary of the usage of the War Powers Resolution (WPR) and various issues related to proposals to modify or repeal the resolution. The report summarizes most recent developments and background, and gives an overview of United Nations actions, and WPR activities in former Yugoslavia/Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq (post-1991), Haiti, and Somalia. It also includes commentary on the instances formally reported under the WPR, consultation with Congress, and the current issues which Congress is considering.
Date: June 11, 2008
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Service Records and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources (open access)

Military Service Records and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources

This report provides information on locating military unit histories and individual service records of discharged, retired, and deceased military personnel. It includes contact information for military history centers, websites for additional sources of research, and a bibliography of other publications.
Date: June 15, 2010
Creator: Gomez-Granger, Julissa & Leland, Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boumediene v. Bush: Guantanamo Detainees' Right to Habeas Corpus (open access)

Boumediene v. Bush: Guantanamo Detainees' Right to Habeas Corpus

This report summarizes the Boumediene decision and analyzes several of its major implications for the U.S. detention of alien enemy combatants and legislation that limits detainees' access to judicial review.
Date: June 16, 2008
Creator: Garcia, Michael John
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of the Department of Defense During A Flu Pandemic (open access)

The Role of the Department of Defense During A Flu Pandemic

This report focuses on the role of the Department of Defense (DOD) in supporting the nation's domestic response effort to a flu pandemic, although it will also touch on DOD's international role.
Date: June 4, 2009
Creator: Kapp, Lawrence & Jansen, Don J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court (open access)

Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court

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Date: June 26, 2007
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K. & Thomas, Kenneth R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Haiti: Developments and U.S. Policy Since 1991 and Current Congressional Concerns (open access)

Haiti: Developments and U.S. Policy Since 1991 and Current Congressional Concerns

This report outlines Congressional concerns regarding Haiti including fostering democratic development, stability, and security; the cost and effectiveness of U.S. aid; protecting human rights; combating narcotics trafficking; addressing Haitian migration; and alleviating poverty. Bills addressing those concerns have been introduced in the 110th Congress.
Date: June 21, 2007
Creator: Taft-Morales, Maureen & Ribando, Clare M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response by Educators, Government Officials, and Independent Associations, Commissions, and Other Organizations to the Problem of Campus Unrest in the United States -- a Select Compendium of New Accounts -- July 1969 - May 1970 (open access)

Response by Educators, Government Officials, and Independent Associations, Commissions, and Other Organizations to the Problem of Campus Unrest in the United States -- a Select Compendium of New Accounts -- July 1969 - May 1970

This is a compendium of new articles from July 1969-May 1970 that is response of various government, education and other American figures addressing campus unrest.
Date: June 25, 1970
Creator: Jones, Richard S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date: June 2, 2010
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date: June 29, 2010
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
India-U.S. Relations (open access)

India-U.S. Relations

This report focuses on the India-U.S. relations.
Date: June 26, 2007
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Defense Base Act (DBA): The Federally Mandated Workers' Compensation System for Overseas Government Contractors (open access)

The Defense Base Act (DBA): The Federally Mandated Workers' Compensation System for Overseas Government Contractors

This report provides an overview of the Defense Base Act (DBA) and the systems used to provide DBA insurance at the Department of State (DOS), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Also included are criticisms of the current DOD DBA policy raised by GAO and Army auditors as well as responses to those criticisms by DOD and USACE. The report concludes with a discussion of several DBA reform options suggested by the House of Representatives in recent legislation and analyzed by DOD.
Date: June 2, 2010
Creator: Grasso, Valerie Bailey; Webel, Baird & Szymendera, Scott
System: The UNT Digital Library
China/Taiwan: Evolution of the “One China” Policy—Key Statements from Washington, Beijing, and Taipei (open access)

China/Taiwan: Evolution of the “One China” Policy—Key Statements from Washington, Beijing, and Taipei

This report discusses the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) of 1979 that has governed U.S. policy in the absence of a diplomatic relationship or a defense treaty. It also points out U.S. Policy on "One China", Statement during George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and Obama Administration.
Date: June 3, 2011
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reserve Component Personnel Issues: Questions and Answers (open access)

Reserve Component Personnel Issues: Questions and Answers

This report provides insight to reserve component personnel issues through a series of questions and answers. This report is designed to provide an overview of key reserve component personnel issues.
Date: June 13, 2014
Creator: Kapp, Lawrence & Torreon, Barbara Salazar
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Vietnam Relations in 2014: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy (open access)

U.S.-Vietnam Relations in 2014: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy

This report provides background information regarding the U.S. - Vietnam relations and current issues and implications. The report discuses how various issues (US interests, Vietnamese interests, economic ties, and human rights) can affect this burgeoning relationship.
Date: June 24, 2014
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Foreign Policy Issues for Congress (open access)

Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Foreign Policy Issues for Congress

This report provides an overview of transnational security issues related to patterns of interaction among international terrorist and crime groups. In addition, the report discusses the U.S. government's perception of and response to the threat. It concludes with an analysis of foreign policy options.
Date: June 11, 2013
Creator: Rollins, John & Wyler, Liana Sun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Grants to State and Local Governments: A Historical Perspective on Contemporary Issues (open access)

Federal Grants to State and Local Governments: A Historical Perspective on Contemporary Issues

This report provides a historical synopsis of the evolving nature of the federal grants-in-aid system, focusing on the role Congress has played in defining the system's scope and nature. It begins with an overview of the contemporary federal grants-in-aid system and then examines its evolution over time, focusing on the internal and external factors that have influenced congressional decisions concerning the system's development. It concludes with an assessment of the scope and nature of the contemporary federal grants-in-aid system and raises several issues for congressional consideration, including possible ways to augment congressional capacity to provide effective oversight of this system.
Date: June 22, 2017
Creator: Dilger, Robert Jay
System: The UNT Digital Library
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996: A Summary (open access)

Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996: A Summary

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is the product of legislative efforts stretching back well over a decade and stimulated to passage in part by the tragedies in Oklahoma City and the World Trade Center. This report summarizes the six titles of the Act, its sources, and related legislation.
Date: June 3, 1996
Creator: Doyle, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2006 Supplemental Appropriations: Iraq and Other International Activities; Additional Hurricane Katrina Relief (open access)

FY2006 Supplemental Appropriations: Iraq and Other International Activities; Additional Hurricane Katrina Relief

This report discusses the two separate FY2006 supplemental appropriations requests submitted on February 16, 2006. The first, totaling $72.4 billion, would fund ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan ($67.9 billion), non-DOD intelligence operations ($0.3 billion), State Department operations in Iraq and various foreign aid programs, including additional assistance for Iraq ($4.2 billion), and other counter-terrorism funding for other agencies ($12 million). The other supplemental would provide $19.8 billion for recovery and reconstruction activities in hurricane affected Gulf Coast areas. Thus, Congress is to consider during the early months of 2006 a combined spending proposal of $92.2 billion.
Date: June 15, 2006
Creator: Irwin, Paul M. & Nowels, Larry
System: The UNT Digital Library