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Texian Loan Agreement (open access)

Texian Loan Agreement

Certificate issued to Robert Triplett acknowledging the first installment of a payment on a loan from the Government of Texas, with details about the loan agreement.
Date: January 11, 1836
Creator: Texas
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 11 January 1870 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 11 January 1870

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: January 11, 1870
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continuing Appropriations Acts: Brief Overview of Recent Practices (open access)

Continuing Appropriations Acts: Brief Overview of Recent Practices

This report is divided into two segments. The first segment provides the most recent developments and content of the FY2005 continuing resolutions. The second segment provides information on the history of CRs; the nature, scope, and duration of CRs during the last 35 years; the types of CRs that have been enacted; and an overview of those instances when funding (or budget authority2) has lapsed and a funding gap has resulted.
Date: January 11, 2002
Creator: Streeter, Sandy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Overview of Major Provisions (open access)

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Overview of Major Provisions

The Individuals with DisabilitiesEducation Act (IDEA) providesfundsto statesfor the education of children with disabilities. It contains detailed requirements for the receipt of these funds, including the core requirement of the provision of a free appropriate public education (FAPE). IDEA was comprehensively revised in 1997 by P.L. 105-17, but Congress has continued to grapple with issuesrelating to the Act. This report provides a brief overview of the Act with particular attention paid to issues of recent congressional concern, such as funding and the provision of FAPE for children with disabilities found to have brought a weapon to school.
Date: January 11, 2002
Creator: Apling, Richard N. & Jones, Nancy L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
General Overview of United States Antitrust Law (open access)

General Overview of United States Antitrust Law

This report presents brief summaries of (1) the primary United States antitrust statutes, and (2) some of the activities which are generally considered to be violations of those laws. There is also some reference to the prohibition against unfair competition and the "unfairness" jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). There is not, however, any discussion of the extraterritorial reach of the United States antitrust laws. Further, the laws whose descriptions follow do not constitute all of the statutes which are applicable to antitrust issues, but rather, constitute those which are most often utilized.
Date: January 11, 1995
Creator: Rubin, Janice E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Online Privacy Protection: Issues and Developments (open access)

Online Privacy Protection: Issues and Developments

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Date: January 11, 2001
Creator: Stevens, Gina Marie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Markup: Preparation (open access)

House Committee Markup: Preparation

Markups provide Members on a committee an opportunity to change parts of a bill prior to its consideration by the full House. A number of administrative, procedural, and substantive steps must be undertaken in preparation for a markup, and other steps could or should be undertaken. Generally, the markup should be strategically planned to minimize controversy, provide Members with political dividends, and position the committee for future action. This report is intended as a guide for various tasks that could be accomplished by committee staff in order to prepare a smooth committee markup.
Date: January 11, 1999
Creator: Schneider, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Markup: Reporting (open access)

House Committee Markup: Reporting

At the end of the amendment process, the chair normally entertains a motion to report a measure favorably to the House. This report addresses the procedural options committees have regarding the form of reporting, such as what happens to amendments adopted in markup, as well as other considerations at the time of reporting.
Date: January 11, 1999
Creator: Schneider, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Markup: Amendment Procedure (open access)

House Committee Markup: Amendment Procedure

This report briefly discusses committee markups in the House of Representatives. The essential purpose of a committee markup is to determine whether a measure pending before a committee should be altered, or amended, in any substantive way. Of course, committees do not actually amend measures; instead a committee votes on which amendments it wishes to recommend to the House.
Date: January 11, 1999
Creator: Schneider, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calendars of the House of Representatives (open access)

Calendars of the House of Representatives

In the House of Representatives, the term “calendar” has two related meanings. This fact sheet, one of a series of fact sheets on legislative process, explains calendars and their use in the House of Representatives.
Date: January 11, 2005
Creator: Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2000: Legislative Branch (open access)

Appropriations for FY2000: Legislative Branch

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 Legislative Branch Appropriations.
Date: January 11, 2000
Creator: Dwyer, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Measures Are Brought to the House Floor: A Brief Introduction (open access)

How Measures Are Brought to the House Floor: A Brief Introduction

This report presents a brief description of the five methods used to bring proposed legislation to the House floor for consideration.
Date: January 11, 2005
Creator: Saturno, James V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Gambling: A Sketch of Legislative Proposals in the 106th Congress (open access)

Internet Gambling: A Sketch of Legislative Proposals in the 106th Congress

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Date: January 11, 2001
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Selected Legislation from the 108th Congress (open access)

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Selected Legislation from the 108th Congress

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as passed in 1978, provided a statutory framework for the use of electronic surveillance in the context of foreign intelligence gathering. In doing so, Congress sought to strike a balance between national security interests and personal privacy rights. Subsequent legislation expanded federal laws dealing with foreign intelligence gathering to address physical searches, pen registers and trap and trace devices, and access to certain business records.
Date: January 11, 2005
Creator: Bazan, Elizabeth B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United Nations Peacekeeping: Issues for Congress (open access)

United Nations Peacekeeping: Issues for Congress

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Date: January 11, 2005
Creator: Browne, Marjorie Ann
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Voting Technologies in the United States: Overview and Issues for Congress (open access)

Voting Technologies in the United States: Overview and Issues for Congress

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Date: January 11, 2001
Creator: Fischer, Eric A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance-Based Pay for Teachers (open access)

Performance-Based Pay for Teachers

CRS Report for Congress entailing information about performance based pay for teachers. Topics include, federal interest, an explanation of what performance based pay is, pay plans for teacher, etc..
Date: January 11, 2001
Creator: Stedman, James B. & McCallion, Gail
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Home Heating Oil Price and Supply During Winter 2000-2001: Policy Options (open access)

U.S. Home Heating Oil Price and Supply During Winter 2000-2001: Policy Options

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Date: January 11, 2001
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Independence: Would It Free the United States From Oil Price Shocks? (open access)

Energy Independence: Would It Free the United States From Oil Price Shocks?

Over the past 25-years, the U.S. economy has experienced four large oil price shocks (1973-74, 1979-80, 1990-91, and 1999-2000). Each has been a catalyst for discussions about a proper national energy policy. Many analysts have suggested that energy independence should be an integral part of such a policy. Both major party candidates for president in the 2000 election expressed similar views. However, U.S. suppliers of energy participate in the world energy market. So long as prices are determined in that market, energy independence will not free the United States from oil price shocks.
Date: January 11, 2002
Creator: Labonte, Marc & Makinen, Gail
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: Issues and Legislation in the 106th Congress (open access)

Cuba: Issues and Legislation in the 106th Congress

Numerous measures were introduced in the 106th Congress that reflected the range of views on U.S. policy toward Cuba. Legislative initiatives proposed both easing and increasing sanctions against Cuba. In the end, legislation passed reflected both approaches: it allowed the export of food and medicine to Cuba, but prohibited any U.S. financing, both public and private, of such exports. Travel to Cuba for tourism was also prohibited.
Date: January 11, 2001
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P. & Taft-Morales, Maureen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mercury in the Environment: Sources and Health Risks (open access)

Mercury in the Environment: Sources and Health Risks

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Date: January 11, 2005
Creator: Schierow, Linda-Jo
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Insurance: Uninsured by State, 2000 (open access)

Health Insurance: Uninsured by State, 2000

An estimated 14% of the U.S. populations lacked health insurance coverage in 2000, down from 14.3% in 1999. When examined by state, estimates of the percent uninsured ranged from a low of 5.9% in Rhode Island to a high of 23.8% in New Mexico. Generally, states in the Midwest and New England have lower rates of uninsured, while states in the Southwestern portion of the nation have higher shares of their populations without coverage.
Date: January 11, 2002
Creator: Morgan, Paulette C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation (open access)

Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation

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Date: January 11, 2001
Creator: Lyke, Bob
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration: Legislative Issues on Nonimmigrant Professional Specialty (H-1B) Workers (open access)

Immigration: Legislative Issues on Nonimmigrant Professional Specialty (H-1B) Workers

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Date: January 11, 2001
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library