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U.S. Arms Sales: Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients, 2003-2010 (open access)

U.S. Arms Sales: Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients, 2003-2010

This report provides background data on U.S. arms sales agreements with and deliveries to its major purchasers during calendar years 2003-2010, made through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.
Date: December 16, 2011
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement and Its Implications for the United States (open access)

The EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement and Its Implications for the United States

This report discusses the free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the European Union (EU). It looks at various aspects of the South Korea-EU FTA (KOREU FTA) including economic ties, trade strategies, and an overview of the key provisions of the agreement focusing on manufactured goods, agriculture, services, and various other provisions of particular interest to U.S. policymakers and the U.S. business community. The report also gives an analysis of the potential economic imact of the KOREU FTA and potential implications of the agreement for the United States.
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: Cooper, William H.; Jurenas, Remy; Platzer, Michaela D. & Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program (open access)

Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program

The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Act (the "SAFER Act") was enacted by the 108th Congress as part of the FY2004 National Defense Authorization Act. This report describes the SAFER Act in brief, discusses possible budgetary modifications to the SAFER Act that are being considered due to the recent economic downturn, and explores related issues for the 112th Congress as they consider reauthorization.
Date: May 16, 2011
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Director of National Intelligence Statutory Authorities: Status and Proposals (open access)

Director of National Intelligence Statutory Authorities: Status and Proposals

This report discusses the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) position created by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-458). It includes an overview of the authorities granted to the DNI by legislation in 2004 and later as well as the varying opinions of Congress regarding new DNI authorities, as well as related legislation from FY2010 through FY2012.
Date: December 16, 2011
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political Transition in Tunisia (open access)

Political Transition in Tunisia

This report discusses Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution," the common term for President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's flight from the country following weeks of mounting anti-government protests. This report discusses how the Jasmine Revolution appears to have added momentum to anti-government sentiment in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and other countries. This report discusses Tunisia's pro-democracy movement; concerns over potential instability in a previously secure, pro-Western area; and U.S.-Tunisian relations.
Date: December 16, 2011
Creator: Arieff, Alexis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 2011 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: September 16, 2011
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 2011 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: December 16, 2011
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resolutions of Inquiry: An Analysis of Their Use in the House, 1947-2011 (open access)

Resolutions of Inquiry: An Analysis of Their Use in the House, 1947-2011

This report examines the use of resolutions of inquiry in the House of Representatives from 1947 to 2011. A resolution of inquiry is a measure that formally calls on the executive branch to provide specified factual information to Congress.
Date: March 16, 2011
Creator: Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Puerto Rican Statehood: Effects on House Apportionment (open access)

Puerto Rican Statehood: Effects on House Apportionment

This report looks at House of Representative distribution between states if Puerto Rico were to gain statehood.
Date: March 16, 2011
Creator: Crocker, Royce
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Mexican Security Cooperation: the Mérida Initiative and Beyond (open access)

U.S.-Mexican Security Cooperation: the Mérida Initiative and Beyond

This report looks at the funding and Congressional oversight for the U.S.-Mexican governments joint effort to curb drug trafficking and violence via the Initiative.
Date: February 16, 2011
Creator: Ribando Seelke, Clare & Finklea, Kristin M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0843 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0843

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of the Sandy Land Underground Water Conservation District to transfer certain assets to an individual or other entity (RQ-0904-GA)
Date: February 16, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0862 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0862

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of a Type A general-law municipality to adopt and enforce an ordinance prohibiting the discharge of certain firearms or other weapons on property located within its original corporate limits (RQ-0937-GA)
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sachse News (Sachse, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011 (open access)

The Sachse News (Sachse, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Sachse, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: Fisher, Donnita Nesbit
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 75, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 75, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 395, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 395, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: September 16, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 551, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 551, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 16, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 233, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 233, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 74, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 74, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rice Thresher, Vol. 99, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 2011 (open access)

The Rice Thresher, Vol. 99, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 2011

A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date: September 16, 2011
Creator: Rutenberg, Josh
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of GAO Recommendations to Treasury (open access)

Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of GAO Recommendations to Treasury

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Nearly 3 years ago, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) authorized the creation of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to address the most severe crisis that the financial system had faced in decades. EESA provided GAO with broad oversight authorities for actions taken under TARP and required that we report at least every 60 days on TARP activities and performance. Our oversight and reporting has resulted in 69 performance audit recommendations and matters for congressional consideration to improve TARP's accountability and transparency. Sixty of the performance audit recommendations have been directed to the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the primary agency responsible for TARP programs. While Treasury has taken a number of steps to address many of our recommendations, some recommendations remain outstanding. This 60-day report describes the status of our TARP performance audit recommendations to Treasury as of September 2011. In particular, this report discusses Treasury's implementation of our recommendations, focusing particularly on two cross-cutting issues--communications and staffing--and two major TARP programs, the Capital Purchase Program (CPP), which supports certain U.S. financial institutions, and Making Home Affordable (MHA), which is a collection of …
Date: September 16, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indian Issues: Key Federal Agencies' and the Smithsonian Institution's Efforts to Identify and Repatriate Indian Human Remains and Objects (open access)

Indian Issues: Key Federal Agencies' and the Smithsonian Institution's Efforts to Identify and Repatriate Indian Human Remains and Objects

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The National Museum of the American Indian Act of 1989 (NMAI Act), as amended in 1996, generally requires the Smithsonian Institution to inventory and identify the origins of its Indian and Native Hawaiian human remains and objects placed with them (funerary objects) and repatriate them to culturally affiliated Indian tribes upon request. According to the Smithsonian, two of its museums--the American Indian and the Natural History Museums--have items that are subject to the NMAI Act. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), enacted in 1990, includes similar requirements for federal agencies and museums. The National NAGPRA office, within the Department of the Interior's National Park Service, facilitates the governmentwide implementation of NAGPRA. Each act requires the establishment of a committee to monitor and review repatriation activities. GAO's testimony is based on its July 2010 report on NAGPRA implementation (GAO-10-768) and its May 2011 report on Smithsonian repatriation (GAO-11-515). The testimony focuses on the extent to which key federal agencies have complied with NAGPRA's requirements and the extent to which the Smithsonian has fulfilled its repatriation requirements."
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aviation Security: TSA Has Made Progress, but Additional Efforts Are Needed to Improve Security (open access)

Aviation Security: TSA Has Made Progress, but Additional Efforts Are Needed to Improve Security

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The attempted bombing of Northwest flight 253 in December 2009 underscores the need for effective aviation security programs. Aviation security remains a daunting challenge with hundreds of airports and thousands of flights daily carrying millions of passengers and pieces of checked baggage. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has spent billions of dollars and implemented a wide range of aviation security initiatives. Two key layers of aviation security are (1) TSA's Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program designed to identify persons who may pose a security risk; and (2) airport perimeter and access controls security. This testimony provides information on the extent to which TSA has taken actions to validate the scientific basis of SPOT and strengthen airport perimeter security. This statement is based on prior products GAO issued from September 2009 through September 2011 and selected updates in August and September 2011. To conduct the updates, GAO analyzed documents on TSA's progress in strengthening aviation security, among other things."
Date: September 16, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Business Programs: Efforts to Address Internal Control Weaknesses and Potential Duplication (open access)

Small Business Programs: Efforts to Address Internal Control Weaknesses and Potential Duplication

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Economic development programs-- administered efficiently and effectively--can contribute to the well-being of the economy at the least cost to taxpayers. Such programs can encompass small business development and contracting. To encourage such contracting, Congress created programs--such as the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), service-disabled veteran-owned small business, and 8(a) Business Development programs--that give contracting preferences to some types of small businesses: in economically distressed communities; to those owned by service-disabled veterans; and to those with eligible socially and economically disadvantaged owners. This testimony addresses (1) potential duplication in economic development programs and (2) internal controls weaknesses in three small business programs. This testimony is based on related GAO work from 2008 to the present and updates it as noted. GAO examined programs at the Departments of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, and Agriculture and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to assess program overlap, collaboration, and measures of effectiveness (GAO-11-477R). GAO also reviewed data from SBA and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and conducted site visits. The reports identified opportunities to increase program efficiencies and made recommendations to improve internal controls and develop outcome-oriented measures."
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library