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TRICARE Modernization: Eligibility for the Federal Employee Dental and Vision Insurance Program (open access)

TRICARE Modernization: Eligibility for the Federal Employee Dental and Vision Insurance Program

This report discusses the Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP) and the upcoming expansion of eligibility to certain TRICARE beneficiaries. TRICARE is the health care program for uniformed service members, retirees, and their families.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Mendez, Bryce H. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico's 2018 Elections (open access)

Mexico's 2018 Elections

This report discusses issues surrounding Mexico's 2018 elections -- particularly the presidential election -- including Mexico's political climate, electoral process, presidential candidates, and predicted outcome.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Seelke, Clare Ribando & Gracia, Edward Y.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Assistance for Wildfire Response and Recovery (open access)

Federal Assistance for Wildfire Response and Recovery

This report briefly discusses the options for federal support and assistance for areas affected by wildfire disasters, including the period during wildfires, in the aftermath, and subsequently for preventing a recurrence.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Hoover, Katie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Venezuela: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Venezuela: Background and U.S. Relations

This report report provides an overview of the overlapping political, economic, and social crises in Venezuela, followed by an overview of U.S. policy toward Venezuela.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Seelke, Clare Ribando; Nelson, Rebecca M.; Brown, Phillip & Margesson, Rhoda
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Actions to Modify the Affordable Care Act in the 111th-115th Congresses (open access)

Legislative Actions to Modify the Affordable Care Act in the 111th-115th Congresses

This report summarizes legislative actions taken during the 111th-115th Congresses to modify the health care-related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA). Since enactment of the ACA and HCERA, lawmakers have repeatedly debated the laws' implementation and considered bills to repeal, defund, or otherwise amend them.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Mach, Annie L. & Kinzer, Janet
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) (open access)

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)

This report discusses the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) which is a presidential advisory body consisting of nine cabinet members, two ex officio members, and other members appointed by the President to oversee direct investments by foreign countries in the United States. It discusses the basics of the committee's operations and laws governing their conduct and power, presidential blocks of investment, previous reforms to the original law governing the committee and its actions and current propositions in Congress to further amend the laws regarding the committe.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
President's Selection of a Nominee for a Supreme Court Vacancy: Overview (open access)

President's Selection of a Nominee for a Supreme Court Vacancy: Overview

This report provides an overview of several issues related to the selection of a Supreme Court nominee by a President for a vacancy on the Court.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Research and Development Expenditures: Fact Sheet (open access)

Global Research and Development Expenditures: Fact Sheet

This report describes the rates of funding for research and development in the United States compared to the rest of the world through several charts.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Sargent, John F., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Efforts to Preserve Economic Benefits of the Iran Nuclear Deal (open access)

Efforts to Preserve Economic Benefits of the Iran Nuclear Deal

This report discusses the response of the non-U.S. parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to the Trump Administration's decision to cease implementing U.S. commitments under the agreement. The other parties, which include the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China, the European Union (EU) and Iran, opposed the U.S. move and have undertaken intensive negotiations to try to preserve the accord.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Cimino-Isaacs, Cathleen D.; Katzman, Kenneth & Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supreme Court Appointment Process: President's Selection of a Nominee (open access)

Supreme Court Appointment Process: President's Selection of a Nominee

This report discusses the process for appointing Supreme Court Justices. Each appointment to the nine-member Court is of consequence because of the enormous judicial power that the Court exercises, separate from, and independent of, the executive and legislative branches.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Section 232 Investigations: Overview and Issues for Congress (open access)

Section 232 Investigations: Overview and Issues for Congress

This report provides an overview of Section 232, analyzes the Trump Administration's Section 232 investigations and actions, and considers potential policy and economic implications and issues for Congress. To provide context for the current debate, the report also includes a discussion of previous Section 232 investigations and a brief legislative history of the statute.
Date: July 27, 2018
Creator: Fefer, Rachel F.; Jones, Vivian C.; Hammond, Keigh E.; Murrill, Brandon J.; Platzer, Michaela D. & Williams, Brock R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Primer: Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (open access)

Defense Primer: Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

This report discusses the role of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and how the position fits into the organizational structure of the Defense Department.
Date: July 27, 2018
Creator: Gallo, Marcy E. & Schwartz, Moshe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fiscal Year 2019 Defense Appropriations Bill: An Overview of S. 3159, as Reported (open access)

Fiscal Year 2019 Defense Appropriations Bill: An Overview of S. 3159, as Reported

This report provides an overview of the appropriations and provisions of the FY2019 Defense Appropriations Bill.
Date: July 27, 2018
Creator: McGarry, Brendan W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential WTO Implications of USDA's Proposed Response to Trade-Retaliation (open access)

Potential WTO Implications of USDA's Proposed Response to Trade-Retaliation

This report briefly discusses the World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments that are relevant to U.S. domestic support programs and how the newly-announced U.S. trade retaliation assistance program may or may not comply with those WTO commitments.
Date: July 27, 2018
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Section 232 Investigations: Overview and Issues for Congress (open access)

Section 232 Investigations: Overview and Issues for Congress

This report provides an overview of Section 232, which relates to trade barriers and other foreign practices. It analyzes the Trump Administration's Section 232 investigations and actions and considers potential policy and economic implications and issues for Congress. To provide context for the current debate, the report also includes a discussion of previous Section 232 investigations and a brief legislative history of the statute.
Date: July 27, 2018
Creator: Fefer, Rachel F.; Jones, Vivian C.; Hammond, Keigh E.; Murrill, Brandon J.; Platzer, Michaela D. & Williams, Brock R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parametric nondifferentiable multiobjective fractional programming under (b;Ψ; Φ; ρ)-univexity (open access)

Parametric nondifferentiable multiobjective fractional programming under (b;Ψ; Φ; ρ)-univexity

This article is concerned with optimality conditions and duality results for nondifferentiable multi-objective fractional programming problems.
Date: September 27, 2018
Creator: Antczak, Tadeusz & Verma, Ram U.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
District Court Temporarily Blocks Implementation of Asylum Restrictions on Unlawful Entrants at the Southern Border (open access)

District Court Temporarily Blocks Implementation of Asylum Restrictions on Unlawful Entrants at the Southern Border

This report discusses the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) barring the Trump Administration from implementing new asylum restrictions. The asylum restrictions were prompted by reports of a "migrant caravan" traveling through Mexico to the southern border of the United States.
Date: November 27, 2018
Creator: Smith, Hillel R. & Harrington, Ben
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Venezuela Regional Migration Crisis (open access)

The Venezuela Regional Migration Crisis

This report discusses the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Venezuela, which has elevated congressional concerns about the country. Venezuela remains in a deep political and economic crisis under the authoritarian rule of President Nicolás Maduro.
Date: November 27, 2018
Creator: Margesson, Rhoda & Seelke, Clare Ribando
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federalism-Based Limitations on Congressional Power: An Overview (open access)

Federalism-Based Limitations on Congressional Power: An Overview

This report provides a broad overview of the various legal doctrines that inform the boundaries of Congress's authority vis-à-vis the states under the Constitution. It addresses several general principles, discusses "internal" limitations on Congress's exercise of powers, and concludes by outlining several "external" federalism-based limitations on Congress's powers, such as the anti-commandeering, anti-coercion, state sovereign immunity, and equal sovereignty doctrines.
Date: September 27, 2018
Creator: Nolan, Andrew; Freeman, Wilson C.; Lewis, Kevin M.; Hickey, Kevin J. & Sykes, Jay B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Records, Papers, Decisions: Kavanaugh Records and the Presidential Records Act (open access)

Records, Papers, Decisions: Kavanaugh Records and the Presidential Records Act

This report discusses the release of records pertaining to Judge Brett Kavanaugh's tenure in the George W. Bush Administration and the Office of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, which have been the subject of ongoing congressional interest since Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
Date: August 27, 2018
Creator: Stuessy, Meghan M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 211, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 27, 2018 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 211, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 27, 2018
Creator: Armstrong, Mark J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 104, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 27, 2018 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 104, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 27, 2018

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 27, 2018
Creator: Armstrong, Mark J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 169, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 2018 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 169, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 2018

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 27, 2018
Creator: Armstrong, Mark J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 298, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 27, 2018 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 298, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 27, 2018

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 27, 2018
Creator: McCrory, Sean
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History