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Financial Regulation: The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) (open access)

Financial Regulation: The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155)

This report discusses the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) which aims to provide regulatory relief to banks, relax mortgage lending rules, and provide additional consumer protections related to credit reporting and other areas.
Date: December 1, 2017
Creator: Perkins, David W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed Offsets Exceed Spending for Agriculture in the Administration's Disaster Assistance Request (open access)

Proposed Offsets Exceed Spending for Agriculture in the Administration's Disaster Assistance Request

This report discusses the Trump Administration's request for a third round of supplemental funding for disaster assistance which would include agricultural programs but be payed for by reducing agriculture funding overall in the future. It outlines programs that would be affected and possible impacts of the plan.
Date: December 1, 2017
Creator: Monke, Jim & Stubbs, Megan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplemental Appropriations and the 2017 Hurricane Season (open access)

Supplemental Appropriations and the 2017 Hurricane Season

This report provides tables listing all the bills, departments, and programs which received supplemental funding related to disaster relief after the 2017 hurricane season and wildfires in California.
Date: December 1, 2017
Creator: Painter, William L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cambodian Election (open access)

Cambodian Election

This report discusses the Cambodian National Assembly election, which was held on July 29, 2018 and U.S. policy responses. Critics viewed the election, in which the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) likely won all 125 parliamentary seats, as neither free nor fair and the victory as "hollow" given that the CPP banned the largest opposition party in 2017.
Date: August 1, 2018
Creator: Lum, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Lending Act: Timeline, New Rules, and Issues (open access)

Military Lending Act: Timeline, New Rules, and Issues

This report briefly discusses new rules under the Military Lending Act (MLA) that change the definition of consumer credit for covered servicemembers and dependents; it will apply to transactions or accounts that are established on or after October 3, 2016. These rules may have an impact on the regulatory burdens for businesses that provide credit products to the military and may also affect military readiness.
Date: June 1, 2016
Creator: Kamarck, Kristy N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Orlando Shooting Revives Debate over Restricting Blood Donations by Gay Men (open access)

Orlando Shooting Revives Debate over Restricting Blood Donations by Gay Men

This report discusses new FDA guidance regarding blood donations from sexually-active gay men. Since the 1980s, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that men who have sex with men (MSM) be indefinitely deferred (i.e., permanently banned) from donating blood. This action was taken to help control the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through the blood supply.
Date: August 1, 2016
Creator: Redhead, C. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
OPM Announces Premium Increase in the Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program (open access)

OPM Announces Premium Increase in the Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program

This report discusses the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announcement regarding premium rate increase for long-term care insurance policies purchased through the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP).
Date: September 1, 2016
Creator: Colello, Kirsten J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean Focus on the Politics of Energy (open access)

Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean Focus on the Politics of Energy

This report discusses Greek and Turkish Cyprus's disputes over the natural gas deposits found off of the island and their role in Cypriot reunification negotiations.
Date: March 1, 2018
Creator: Morelli, Vincent L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Executive Order for Review of National Monuments (open access)

Executive Order for Review of National Monuments

This report discusses President Trump's April 16, 2017 executive order requiring the Department of the Interior to review presidentially established national monuments since 1996 that exceed 100,000 acres or where action was taken "without adequate public outreach and coordination". It includes tables of the national monuments effected and numbers of acres protected as a national monument by each President since 1996.
Date: May 1, 2017
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy & Hanson, Laura A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Sales and State Taxes: Policy Issues (open access)

Internet Sales and State Taxes: Policy Issues

This report discusses Internet sales, which do not always include sales and use tax. Customers who do not pay sales or use tax to the vendor are typically required to remit the tax to their home state.
Date: December 1, 2016
Creator: Lowry, Sean & Lunder, Erika K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Waiver of Statutory Qualifications Relating to Prior Military Service of the Secretary of Defense (open access)

Waiver of Statutory Qualifications Relating to Prior Military Service of the Secretary of Defense

This report discusses the status of the Secretary of Defense, who has authority, direction, and control over the Department of Defense, as a civilian appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Date: December 1, 2016
Creator: Peters, Heidi M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexican-U.S. Relations: Increased Tensions (open access)

Mexican-U.S. Relations: Increased Tensions

This report describes the increased tensions in Mexican-U.S. relations after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto canceled an upcoming meeting with President Donald J. Trump following exchanges between the two leaders over social media concerning U.S. policies toward Mexico.
Date: February 1, 2017
Creator: Ribando Seelke, Clare & Villarreal, M. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
President Trump's Executive Order on Suspending Entry of Select Foreign Nationals: The Seven Countries (open access)

President Trump's Executive Order on Suspending Entry of Select Foreign Nationals: The Seven Countries

This report the executive order (EO) entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorists Entry Into the United States." Invoking Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) §212(f), the President barred citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the United States for 90 days, with limited exceptions for those traveling on diplomatic and certain other types of visas.
Date: February 1, 2017
Creator: Siskin, Alison
System: The UNT Digital Library
European Union Efforts to Counter Disinformation (open access)

European Union Efforts to Counter Disinformation

This report discusses European Union efforts to counter the use of propaganda by both state and non-state actors, including new strategies to combat disinformation.
Date: December 1, 2016
Creator: Morelli, Vincent L. & Archick, Kristin
System: The UNT Digital Library