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American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics (open access)

American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics

This report provides U.S. war casualty statistics compiled from various Department of Defense (DOD) sources (listed at end). The first data table lists the number of casualties among American military personnel who served in principal wars and combat operations from 1775 to the present. Subsequent tables provide more specific information by conflict about the demographics of soldiers killed or wounded in action and information such as race and ethnicity, gender, branch of service, home state, and cause of death.
Date: September 14, 2018
Creator: DeBruyne, Nese F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 37, Pages 5875-6028, September 14, 2018 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 37, Pages 5875-6028, September 14, 2018

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: September 14, 2018
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trends in Mandatory Spending: In Brief (open access)

Trends in Mandatory Spending: In Brief

This report describes mandatory spending, its composition and growth over time, and possible mandatory spending in coming decades, as well as relevant policy options.
Date: September 14, 2018
Creator: Austin, D. Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the sustainment and modernization of the Coast Guard's polar icebreaker fleet. The Coast Guard's proposed FY2018 budget requests $19 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2019.
Date: September 14, 2017
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Consideration of Resolutions to "Censure" Executive Branch Officials (open access)

Congressional Consideration of Resolutions to "Censure" Executive Branch Officials

This report summarizes the parliamentary procedures the House and Senate might use to consider a resolution to censure or condemn an executive branch official and provides links to additional reading material on the subject.
Date: September 14, 2017
Creator: Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Employees: Human Resources Management Flexibilities for Emergency Situations (open access)

Federal Employees: Human Resources Management Flexibilities for Emergency Situations

This report discusses special flexibility and hiring options for federal employees after disasters that are issued by the Department of Personnel Management (OPM). Most recently these options have been offered to those effected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The various options for employees using the program are listed and described in a tabular format.
Date: September 14, 2017
Creator: Schwemle, Barbara L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Columbia Class (Ohio Replacement) Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN [X]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Columbia Class (Ohio Replacement) Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN [X]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and potential oversight issues for Congress on the Columbia class program, a program to design and build a new class of 12 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) to replace the Navy's current force of 14 Ohio-class SSBNs. The program was previously known as the Ohio replacement program (ORP) or SSBN(X) program. The Navy has identified the Columbia class program as the Navy's top priority program. The Navy wants to procure the first Columbia-class boat in FY2021.
Date: September 14, 2017
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Virginia (SSN-774) Class Attack Submarine Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Virginia (SSN-774) Class Attack Submarine Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) program. The Navy's proposed FY2018 budget requests $5,225.9 million in procurement and advance procurement (AP) funding for the program. Decisions that Congress makes on procurement of Virginia-class boats could substantially affect U.S. Navy capabilities and funding requirements, and the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base.
Date: September 14, 2017
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Redeploying U.S. Nuclear Weapons to South Korea: Background and Implications in Brief (open access)

Redeploying U.S. Nuclear Weapons to South Korea: Background and Implications in Brief

This report provides background information on the deployment of nuclear weapon systems in South Korea in the past, explores the options that might be available for the redeployment of nuclear weapons to South Korea now to deter the North Korean threat, and discusses the potential implications of doing so for South Korea, North Korea, Japan, and the U.S.
Date: September 14, 2017
Creator: Woolf, Amy F. & Chanlett-Avery, Emma
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resolutions Censuring the President: History and Context, 1st-114th Congresses (open access)

Resolutions Censuring the President: History and Context, 1st-114th Congresses

This report discusses times when Congress has issued or proposed censures of the President for his actions which though not laws show Congress's displeasure and reflect badly on the President.
Date: September 14, 2017
Creator: Hudiberg, Jane A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unauthorized Childhood Arrivals: Legislative Options (open access)

Unauthorized Childhood Arrivals: Legislative Options

This report discusses bills proposed in Congress that either would provide temporary protection from removal or paths to citizenship for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in the wake of the announcement of the phasing out of the DACA program.
Date: September 14, 2017
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Army's Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV): Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Army's Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV): Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information on the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV), which is the Army's proposed replacement to the Vietnam-era M-113 personnel carriers.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brazil in Crisis (open access)

Brazil in Crisis

This report briefly examines the political situation and discusses public opinion regarding the Rousseff Administration.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Meyer, Peter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress (open access)

Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress

This report discusses the process of naming Navy ships, which have traditionally been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy. Rules for giving certain types of names to certain types of Navy ships have evolved over time.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nicaragua: In Brief (open access)

Nicaragua: In Brief

This report discusses Nicaragua's current politics, economic development and relations with the United States and provides context for Nicaragua's controversial November 6, 2016, elections.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Taft-Morales, Maureen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prospects in Colombia: Cease-Fire, Peace Accord Vote, and Potential Disrupters (open access)

Prospects in Colombia: Cease-Fire, Peace Accord Vote, and Potential Disrupters

This report discusses the political situation in Colombia after a peace accord negotiated over four years between the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the country's largest insurgent group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers and the TAA Reauthorization Act of 2015 (open access)

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers and the TAA Reauthorization Act of 2015

This report describes Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers (TAA) as reauthorized by the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2015.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Collins, Benjamin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. International Food Aid Programs: Background and Issues (open access)

U.S. International Food Aid Programs: Background and Issues

This report includes three principal sections: a description of U.S. international food aid programs under current law; a discussion of several important policy issues related to U.S. international food aid; and a description of Administration and congressional proposals intended to change the nature of U.S. food international aid.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and potential oversight issues for Congress on the Coast Guard's programs for procuring 8 National Security Cutters (NSCs), 25 Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs), and 58 Fast Response Cutters (FRCs).
Date: September 14, 2015
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Election in Greece (open access)

Election in Greece

This report discusses issues leading up to Greece's snap legislative election on September 20, only eight months after the country's last election. Greece continues to struggle with the negative repercussions of a sovereign debt and financial crisis that began in 2009.
Date: September 14, 2015
Creator: Belkin, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Credit Programs: Comparing Fair Value and the Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA) (open access)

Federal Credit Programs: Comparing Fair Value and the Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA)

This report first provides a brief explanation of federal credit programs. Next, it examines recent legislative proposals and hearings. It assesses several policy issues Congress might consider and the benefits and challenges of remaining on FCRA cost estimates versus using fair-value estimates to determine subsidy costs.
Date: September 14, 2015
Creator: Gnanarajah, Raj
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Powering Africa: Challenges of and U.S. Aid for Electrification in Africa (open access)

Powering Africa: Challenges of and U.S. Aid for Electrification in Africa

This report discusses the Power Africa initiative; policy problems and challenges related to power sector development in Africa; long-term perspectives on energy poverty, need, and future development; and raises some possible oversight questions and issues for Congress.
Date: September 14, 2015
Creator: Cook, Nicolas; Campbell, Richard J.; Brown, Phillip & Ratner, Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA): A Summary of the Act and Its Major Requirements (open access)

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA): A Summary of the Act and Its Major Requirements

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Date: September 14, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The United Arab Emirates (UAE): Issues for U.S. Policy (open access)

The United Arab Emirates (UAE): Issues for U.S. Policy

This report discusses various issues regarding politics and government, foreign policy, and counter-terrorism in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE has been a significant U.S. partner in Gulf security for more than two decades, and the alliance has deepened further in recent years in order to address multiple regional threats.
Date: September 14, 2015
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library