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[Letter from Anthony Dey, May 5, 1834] (open access)

[Letter from Anthony Dey, May 5, 1834]

Letter from Anthony Dey to unknown person: On granting 200 Poles to settle in Zavala's granted land between the Sabine River and the town of Nacogdoches. New York, May 5, 1834. Anthony Dey was the New York attorney for the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company.
Date: May 5, 1834
Creator: Dey, Anthony
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Exemptions from Environmental Law for the Department of Defense: An Overview of Congressional Action (open access)

Exemptions from Environmental Law for the Department of Defense: An Overview of Congressional Action

Several environmental statutes contain national security exemptions, which the Department of Defense (DOD) can obtain on a case-by-case basis. Since FY2003, DOD has sought broader exemptions that it argues are needed to preserve training capabilities and ensure military readiness. There has been disagreement in Congress over the need for broader exemptions in the absence of data on the overall impact of environmental requirements on training and readiness.
Date: May 16, 2005
Creator: Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The SAFE Acts of 2005:  H.R. 1526 and S. 737--A Sketch (open access)

The SAFE Acts of 2005: H.R. 1526 and S. 737--A Sketch

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Date: May 9, 2005
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Financial Institutions:  Funding U.S. Participation (open access)

International Financial Institutions: Funding U.S. Participation

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Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Sanford, Jonathan E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multilateral Development Banks: Current Authorization Requests (open access)

Multilateral Development Banks: Current Authorization Requests

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Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Sanford, Jonathan E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Brokers: Federal and State Laws (open access)

Information Brokers: Federal and State Laws

This report discusses the federal and state laws that could be applicable to information brokers and legislation that has been introduced to address consumer concerns about the practice of information gathering, the selling of information, and identity theft resulting from security breaches.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Welborn, Angie A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Aid: Understanding Data Used to Compare Donors (open access)

Foreign Aid: Understanding Data Used to Compare Donors

This report explains differences and discusses other issues to the debate over how much wealthy countries contribute to international development and what share U.S. resources represent.
Date: May 23, 2005
Creator: Nowels, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Membership of the 109th Congress: A Profile (open access)

Membership of the 109th Congress: A Profile

This report presents a profile of the membership of the 109th Congress. Statistical information is included on selected characteristics of Members. This includes data on party affiliation; average age and length of service; occupation; religious affiliation; female and minority Members; foreign-born Members; and military service.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Border Security:  Key Agencies and Their Missions (open access)

Border Security: Key Agencies and Their Missions

After the massive reorganization of federal agencies precipitated by the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there are now four main federal agencies charged with securing the United States’ borders: the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which patrols the border and conducts immigrations, customs, and agricultural inspections at ports of entry; the Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which investigates immigrations and customs violations in the interior of the country; the United States Coast Guard, which provides maritime and port security; and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which is responsible for securing the nation’s land, rail, and air transportation networks. This report is meant to serve as a primer on the key federal agencies charged with border security; as such it will briefly describe each agency’s role in securing our nation’s borders.
Date: May 9, 2005
Creator: Nuñez-Neto, Blas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Outsourcing and Insourcing Jobs in the U.S. Economy: An Overview of Evidence Based on Foreign Investment Data (open access)

Outsourcing and Insourcing Jobs in the U.S. Economy: An Overview of Evidence Based on Foreign Investment Data

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Date: May 6, 2005
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq's Agriculture: Background and Status (open access)

Iraq's Agriculture: Background and Status

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Date: May 13, 2003
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Food Aid:  U.S. and Other Donor Contributions (open access)

International Food Aid: U.S. and Other Donor Contributions

This report provides three indicators of the U.S. contribution to global food aid: (1) shipments of major donors compiled by the International Grains Council, (2) U.S. contributions to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), and (3) the U.S. commitment under the Food Aid Convention (FAC).
Date: May 2, 2005
Creator: Hanrahan, Charles E. & Canada, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration and Naturalization Fundamentals (open access)

Immigration and Naturalization Fundamentals

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Date: May 20, 2003
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
D-Day: The French Jubilee of Liberty Medal and the 60th Anniversary Commemoration on June 6, 2004, and Events for June 6, 2005 (open access)

D-Day: The French Jubilee of Liberty Medal and the 60th Anniversary Commemoration on June 6, 2004, and Events for June 6, 2005

This report details the Jubilee of Liberty Medal awarded to U.S. veterans by the French government to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces on June 6, 1994 (D-Day).
Date: May 27, 2005
Creator: Torreon, Barbara Salazar
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adult Education and Literacy: Overview and Reauthorization Proposals of the 109th Congress (open access)

Adult Education and Literacy: Overview and Reauthorization Proposals of the 109th Congress

The 109th Congress is considering the reauthorization of federal adult education and literacy programs. The Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) authorized these programs through FY2003. The primary AEFLA activity is a state grant program that supports education and literacy services for educationally disadvantaged adults. The AEFLA also authorizes national leadership activities in adult education and literacy, and the National Institute for Literacy. The FY2005 AEFLA appropriation is $585 million; the FY2006 budget request would reduce funding to $216 million. The AEFLA was enacted as Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), P.L. 105-220, on August 7, 1998.
Date: May 19, 2005
Creator: Irwin, Paul M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: Issues for the 109th Congress (open access)

Cuba: Issues for the 109th Congress

This report, which will be updated regularly, examines issues in U.S.-Cuban relations and tracks legislative initiatives on Cuba in the 109th Congress. The 109th Congress will likely continue an active interest in Cuba concerning human rights, debate over economic sanctions (especially on travel), food and agricultural exports to Cuba, terrorism issues, Radio and TV Marti, bilateral anti-drug cooperation, and migration issues.
Date: May 5, 2005
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Immigration Policy on Asylum Seekers (open access)

U.S. Immigration Policy on Asylum Seekers

The United States has long held to the principle that it will not return a foreign national to a country where his life or freedom would be threatened. This principle is embodied in several provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), most notably in provisions defining refugees and asylees. Aliens seeking asylum must demonstrate a well-founded fear that if returned home, they will be persecuted based upon one of five characteristics: race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
Date: May 5, 2005
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petroleum Refining: Economic Performance and Challenges for the Future (open access)

Petroleum Refining: Economic Performance and Challenges for the Future

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Date: May 9, 2005
Creator: Pirog, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Selected Changes that Would be Made to the Law by S. 1248, 108th Congress (open access)

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Selected Changes that Would be Made to the Law by S. 1248, 108th Congress

CRS Report for Congress entailing information about changes being made to the law because of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA). Topics include, eligibility by jurisdiction, safeguarding, evaluation and Individualized Education Programs (IEPS), etc..
Date: May 7, 2004
Creator: Apling, Richard N. & Jones, Nancy Lee
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China: Economic Sanctions (open access)

China: Economic Sanctions

This report discusses a list of economic sanctions that the United States currently maintains against China. The influence of Congress on U.S. policy toward China, once significant because so much hung on the annual possibility that favorable trade terms could be suspended, has more recently been diffused. Sanctions that remain in place today can all be modified, eased, or lifted altogether by the President, without congressional input.
Date: May 18, 2005
Creator: Rennack, Dianne E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vaccine Policy Issues (open access)

Vaccine Policy Issues

This report’s focus is on vaccination, one of the most cost-effective methods available to prevent infectious diseases. Whether a vaccine’s target is naturally occurring or present because of hostile intent, the issues policymakers must deal with include vaccine development, production, availability, safety, effectiveness, and access. Vaccines are biologics: their basic components begin as a living material. They introduce bacteria or dead or weakened viruses into a person or animal to stimulate an immune reaction that the body will remember if assaulted by the same the pathogen in the future.
Date: May 19, 2005
Creator: Thaul, Susan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioterrorism: Legislation to Improve Public Health Preparedness and Response Capacity (open access)

Bioterrorism: Legislation to Improve Public Health Preparedness and Response Capacity

While lawmakers work towards final passage of new authorizing legislation, Congress has appropriated $3 billion to the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) for FY2002 to increase bio-terrorism preparedness at the federal, state, and local levels. HHS anti bio-terrorism funding was included in theFY2002Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill (P.L. 107-116, H.R. 3061) and in the $20 billion emergency spending package (P.L. 107- 117, H.R. 3338). HHS is dispersing the funds according to existing authorities and the broad spending parameters set out in the appropriations bills.
Date: May 8, 2002
Creator: Redhead, C. Stephen; Vogt, Donna U. & Tiemann, Mary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Access to Executive Branch Information: Legislative Tools (open access)

Congressional Access to Executive Branch Information: Legislative Tools

This report begins by reviewing the precedents established during the Washington Administration for withholding documents from Congress. Close examination reveals that the scope of presidential privilege is often exaggerated. Congress had access to more documentation than is commonly believed and might have had more had it pressed for it. Subsequent sections focus on various forms of congressional leverage: the power of the purse, the power to impeach, issuing congressional subpoenas, holding executive officials in contempt, House resolutions of inquiry, GAO investigations, and blocking nominations, all of which may force executive officials to release documents they would otherwise want to keep private and confidential. Even if Presidents announce perfectly plausible grounds for withholding documents, they may have to comply with the congressional will to achieve other more important goals.
Date: May 17, 2001
Creator: Fisher, Louis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 109th Congress (open access)

Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 109th Congress

This report provides the information related to the fishery, aquaculture, and marine mammal issues in the 109th Congress
Date: May 13, 2005
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library