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Obstruction of Justice: An Abridged Overview of Related Federal Criminal Laws (open access)

Obstruction of Justice: An Abridged Overview of Related Federal Criminal Laws

This report briefly discusses obstruction of justice, which is defined as the frustration of governmental purposes by violence, corruption, destruction of evidence, or deceit. This is an abridged version of CRS Report RL34304, Obstruction of Justice: An Overview of Some of the Federal Statutes That Prohibit Interference with Judicial, Executive, or Legislative Activities, by Charles Doyle, without the footnotes, quotations, or citations to authority found in the longer report.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Obstruction of Congress: An Abridged Overview of Federal Criminal Laws Relating to Interference with Congressional Activities (open access)

Obstruction of Congress: An Abridged Overview of Federal Criminal Laws Relating to Interference with Congressional Activities

This report briefly discusses obstruction of justice, specifically regarding Congressional activities. Obstruction of justice is defined as the frustration of governmental purposes by violence, corruption, destruction of evidence, or deceit. This is an abridged version of CRS Report RL34304, Obstruction of Congress: A Brief Overview of Federal Law Relating to Interference with Congressional Activities, by Charles Doyle, without the footnotes, quotations, or citations to authority found in the longer report.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Obstruction of Justice: An Overview of Some of the Federal Statutes That Prohibit Interference with Judicial, Executive, or Legislative Activities (open access)

Obstruction of Justice: An Overview of Some of the Federal Statutes That Prohibit Interference with Judicial, Executive, or Legislative Activities

Obstruction of justice is the frustration of governmental purposes by violence, corruption, destruction of evidence, or deceit. It is a federal crime. In fact, federal obstruction of justice laws are legion; too many for even passing reference to all of them in a single report. This is a brief description of the some of the more prominent.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Obstruction of Congress: A Brief Overview of Federal Law Relating to Interference with Congressional Activities (open access)

Obstruction of Congress: A Brief Overview of Federal Law Relating to Interference with Congressional Activities

Obstruction of justice is the frustration of governmental purposes by violence, corruption, destruction of evidence, or deceit. It is a federal crime. In fact, federal obstruction of justice laws are legion; too many for even passing reference to all of them in a single report. This is a brief description of those that outlaw interference with congressional activities.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) (open access)

Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)

In May 2003, President George W. Bush formed the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to increase international cooperation in interdicting shipments of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), their delivery systems, and related materials. This report provides background information on the initiative, as well as a general overview and proposed changes and expansions to the initiative.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Nikitin, Mary Beth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Raising the Tax Rates on High-Income Taxpayers: Pros and Cons (open access)

Raising the Tax Rates on High-Income Taxpayers: Pros and Cons

This report focuses on the debate over whether the top two marginal tax rates should be permitted to rise back to their 2001 levels, once the temporary tax provisions known as the "Bush tax cuts" expire on December 31, 2010. The report discusses arguments for and against raising the tax rates.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Noto, Nonna A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perjury Under Federal Law: A Brief Overview (open access)

Perjury Under Federal Law: A Brief Overview

This report describes perjury under federal law, including a definition as well as in-depth explorations of the three general federal perjury laws. This report is available in abbreviated form - without footnotes, quotations, or citations - as CRS Report 98-807, Perjury Under Federal Law: A Sketch of the Elements.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perjury Under Federal Law: A Sketch of the Elements (open access)

Perjury Under Federal Law: A Sketch of the Elements

This report discusses the three general federal perjury laws. This report is an abbreviated version of CRS Report 98-808, Perjury Under Federal Law: A Brief Overview, by Charles Doyle, stripped of most footnotes, quotations, citations, and bibliography.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The European Union: Questions and Answers (open access)

The European Union: Questions and Answers

This report provides a brief overview of the European Union (EU), an economic and political partnership between 27 sovereign member states. The report describes the formation of the EU, the three main institutions of the EU, and the EU's relationship with the United States.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Archick, Kristin & Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The European Parliament (open access)

The European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the three key institutions of the European Union (EU), and the only EU institution whose members are directly elected. This report discusses the construction and history of the EP, its role in functions of the EU as well as internationally, various international supports and criticisms of the EP, and the EP's ties with the U.S. Congress.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: Archick, Kristin & Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 35, Number 45, Pages 9801-9958, November 5, 2010 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 35, Number 45, Pages 9801-9958, November 5, 2010

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: November 5, 2010
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 2010 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 2010

Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Federal Register, Volume 75, Number 214, November 5, 2010, Pages 68169-68404 (open access)

Federal Register, Volume 75, Number 214, November 5, 2010, Pages 68169-68404

Daily publication of the U.S. Office of the Federal Register contains rules and regulations, proposed legislation and rule changes, and other notices, including "Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be published by act of Congress, and other Federal agency documents of public interest" (p. ii). Table of Contents starts on page iii.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: United States. Office of the Federal Register.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 301, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 2010 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 301, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 2010

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ensemble: 2010-11-05 – Chamber Music and Song Cycles by Jake Heggie

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Chamber music ensembles concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2010-11-05 – Super 400 Guitar Ensemble

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Jazz concert presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: University of North Texas. Super 400 Guitar Ensemble.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 2010 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 2010

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: November 5, 2010
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Thomas Love Paige, November 5, 2010] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Thomas Love Paige, November 5, 2010]

Funeral program for Bro. Thomas Love Paige, born November 15, 1951 and died October 30, 2010. The funeral was held Friday, November 5, 2010 at Mt. Gilead Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Robert Forte. Funeral arrangements were made through Carter Taylor Williams Mortuary.
Date: November 5, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Networking of psychophysics, psychology, and neurophysiology (open access)

Networking of psychophysics, psychology, and neurophysiology

Article discussing the dynamic networking and dynamic networks in complex research on psychophysics, psychology, and neurophysiology.
Date: November 5, 2012
Creator: West, Bruce J. & Grigolini, Paolo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2012-11-05 – Brass Band

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UNT Brass Band concert presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
Date: November 5, 2012
Creator: University of North Texas. Brass Band.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Composition Recital: 2012-11-05 – Spectrum

Spectrum concert performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: November 5, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Same-Sex Marriages: Legal Issues (open access)

Same-Sex Marriages: Legal Issues

Report that discusses Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and legal challenges to it. It reviews legal principles applied to determine the validity of a marriage contracted in another state and surveys the various approaches employed by states to address same-sex marriage. It also examines previous Congressional resolutions proposing a constitutional amendment and limiting federal courts' jurisdiction to hear or determine any question pertaining to the interpretation of DOMA.
Date: November 5, 2012
Creator: Smith, Alison M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Provisions Expiring in 2013 ("Tax Extenders") (open access)

Tax Provisions Expiring in 2013 ("Tax Extenders")

This report discusses dozens of temporary tax provisions that are scheduled to expire at the end of 2013 under current law. Most of the provisions set to expire in 2013 have been part of past temporary tax extension legislation.
Date: November 5, 2013
Creator: Sherlock, Molly F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and International Trade: Legal Issues (open access)

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and International Trade: Legal Issues

This report examines the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) role in regulating U.S. imported and exported consumer products. It also examines some of the international obligations that the United States has undertaken with respect to the promulgation of standards-related measures, such as mandatory consumer product safety regulations.
Date: November 5, 2013
Creator: Murrill, Brandon J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library