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Terrorism: Section by Section Analysis of the USA PATRIOT Act (open access)

Terrorism: Section by Section Analysis of the USA PATRIOT Act

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Date: December 10, 2001
Creator: Doyle, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2002: VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies (P.L. 107-73) (open access)

Appropriations for FY2002: VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies (P.L. 107-73)

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies.
Date: December 7, 2001
Creator: Snook, Dennis W. & Bourdon, E. Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2002: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs (open access)

Appropriations for FY2002: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date: December 26, 2001
Creator: Nowels, Larry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran: Current Developments and U.S. Policy (open access)

Iran: Current Developments and U.S. Policy

Report discussing the most recent political developments in Iran, including who the country offers support to and opposes. The report also makes note of U.S. policy regarding these developments, as well as the measures put in place to ensure continued peaceful relations between the two countries.
Date: December 26, 2002
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
India-U.S. Relations (open access)

India-U.S. Relations

This report discusses the context of India- U.S. relations, and its bilateral issues.
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: LePoer, Barbara Leitch
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Current Issues and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Current Issues and U.S. Policy

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: December 3, 2002
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latin America and the Caribbean: Legislative Issues in 2001-2002 (open access)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Legislative Issues in 2001-2002

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Date: December 6, 2002
Creator: Storrs, K. Larry; Hornbeck, J. F.; Serafino, Nina M.; Sullivan, Mark P. & Taft-Morales, Maureen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Middle East: Attitudes toward the United States (open access)

Middle East: Attitudes toward the United States

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Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Prados, Alfred B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2003: Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs (open access)

Appropriations for FY2003: Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date: December 2, 2002
Creator: Nowels, Larry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alien Eligibility for Public Assistance (open access)

Alien Eligibility for Public Assistance

This report discusses the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which affected alien eligibility for federal, state, and local government assistance programs, both imposing and broadening restrictions on a number of immigration benefits and programs.
Date: December 18, 1997
Creator: Vialet, Joyce & Eig, Larry M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism and the Law of War: Trying Terrorists as War Criminals before Military Commissions (open access)

Terrorism and the Law of War: Trying Terrorists as War Criminals before Military Commissions

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Date: December 11, 2001
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: December 28, 2004
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Aviation Security Legislation in the Aftermath of the September 11 Attack (open access)

Selected Aviation Security Legislation in the Aftermath of the September 11 Attack

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Date: December 14, 2001
Creator: Kirk, Robert S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment (open access)

Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment

This report provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment — of the ways that the Supreme Court has interpreted the guarantee of freedom of speech and press to provide no protection or only limited protection for some types of speech.
Date: December 7, 2004
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: December 16, 2004
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Foreign Aid to East and South Asia: Selected Recipients (open access)

U.S. Foreign Aid to East and South Asia: Selected Recipients

This report analyzes annual budget justifications and legislation for foreign operations and discusses U.S. foreign aid trends, programs, and restrictions in 16 East Asian and South Asian countries. This report does not cover aid to Pacific Island nations, North Korea, and Afghanistan.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Lum, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Assistance to Vietnam (open access)

U.S. Assistance to Vietnam

U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic and economic relations were non-existent for more then fifteen years following communist North Vietnam’s victory in 1975 over the U.S. ally South Vietnam. Normalization of relations, particularly in the economic sphere, between the United States and unified Vietnam began in earnest in the 1990s. As the normalization process has proceeded, the U.S. has eliminated most of the Cold Warera restrictions on U.S. aid to Vietnam, and U.S. assistance has increased markedly from around $1 million when assistance was resumed in 1991 to nearly $50 million in FY2004.
Date: December 3, 2004
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2005: District of Columbia (open access)

Appropriations for FY2005: District of Columbia

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This Report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on the District of Columbia Appropriations.
Date: December 22, 2004
Creator: Boyd, Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: FY2006 Appropriations (open access)

Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: FY2006 Appropriations

This report is a guide to one of the regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies. It summarizes the status of the bill, its scope, major issues, funding levels, and related congressional activity, and is updated as events warrant.
Date: December 1, 2005
Creator: Irwin, Paul M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Andean Counterdrug Initiative (ACI) and Related Funding Programs: FY2005 Assistance (open access)

Andean Counterdrug Initiative (ACI) and Related Funding Programs: FY2005 Assistance

This report discusses the funds and material support the U.S. has contributed to help Colombia and the Andean region fight drug trafficking since the development of Plan Colombia in 1999.
Date: December 9, 2004
Creator: Veillette, Connie
System: The UNT Digital Library
California's San Joaquin Valley: A Region in Transition (open access)

California's San Joaquin Valley: A Region in Transition

This report analyzes the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) counties and statistically documents the basis of current socioeconomic conditions. The report further explores the extent to which the SJV shares similarities with and differs from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) area and a 68- county Central Appalachian subregion which contains some of the most economically distressed counties in Appalachia. The report also examines the role of federal expenditures in the cities and counties of the SJV. In addition to examining socioeconomic conditions in the SJV, the report provides analysis of water supply and quality issues especially those concerning agriculture, air quality concerns, and rail and shipping issues.
Date: December 12, 2005
Creator: Cowan, Tadlock
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liberia's Post-War Recovery: Key Issues and Developments (open access)

Liberia's Post-War Recovery: Key Issues and Developments

This report describes recent developments in Liberia, a small, poor West African country that is undergoing a post-conflict transition and peace-building process after its second civil war in a decade.
Date: December 13, 2005
Creator: Cook, Nicolas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medical Marijuana: Review and Analysis of Federal and State Policies (open access)

Medical Marijuana: Review and Analysis of Federal and State Policies

This report discusses the issue facing Congress on whether to continue to support the executive branch’s prosecution of medical marijuana patients and their providers, in accordance with marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, or whether to relax federal marijuana prohibition enough to permit the medical use of botanical cannabis products by seriously ill persons, especially in states that have created medical marijuana programs under state law.
Date: December 29, 2005
Creator: Eddy, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: Issues for the 108th Congress (open access)

Cuba: Issues for the 108th Congress

Cuba under Fidel Castro remains a hard-line communist state with a poor record on human rights that has deteriorated significantly since 2003. With the cutoff of assistance from the former Soviet Union, Cuba experienced severe economic deterioration from 1989 to 1993. While there has been some improvement since 1994, as Cuba has implemented limited reforms, the economy remains in poor shape. This report discusses the most recent development in Cuba, including political and economic conditions and the U.S. policy towards Cuba. It also considers the issues in U.S.-Cuban Relations.
Date: December 2, 2004
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
System: The UNT Digital Library