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Communications Act Revisions: Selected Issues for Consideration (open access)

Communications Act Revisions: Selected Issues for Consideration

This report provides an overview of selected topics which the 109th Congress may address in its examination of telecommunications issues. The issues included in this report cover: broadband Internet regulation and access; broadcast indecency; digital television transition; Federal Communications Commission structure and reform; intercarrier compensation; media ownership rules; municipal deployment of broadband; public safety communications, the “savings clause” and monopoly issues; spectrum auctions; and universal service fund reform.
Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Officials: Process for Adjusting Pay and Current Salaries (open access)

Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Officials: Process for Adjusting Pay and Current Salaries

This report includes four tables which provide the January 2004, January 2005, and January 2006 salaries for federal officials and members of the SES, and for employees in SL, ST, and GS-15 positions in the Washington, DC, and the “Rest of the United States” locality pay areas.
Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Schwemle, Barbara L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China's Trade with the United States and the World (open access)

China's Trade with the United States and the World

This report provides a quantitative framework for policy considerations dealing with U.S. trade with China. It provides basic data and analysis of China’s international trade with the United States and other countries. Since Chinese data differ considerably from those of its trading partners (because of how entrepot trade through Hong Kong is counted), data from both PRC sources and those of its trading partners are presented. Charts showing import trends by sector for the United States highlight China’s growing market shares in many industries and also show import shares for Japan, Canada, Mexico, the European Union, and the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN ).
Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Lum, Thomas & Nanto, Dick K.
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: January 23, 2006
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: U.S. Military Operations (open access)

Iraq: U.S. Military Operations

The major challenges to coalition forces are now quelling a persistent Iraqi resistance movement and training sufficient Iraqi forces to assume responsibility for the nations domestic security. This report discusses military planning and operations in Iraq.
Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

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Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.; Chanlett-Avery, Emma & Cooper, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (open access)

Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty

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Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (open access)

Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

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Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tactical Aircraft Modernization: Issues for Congress (open access)

Tactical Aircraft Modernization: Issues for Congress

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Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The United States and Europe: Possible Options for U.S. Policy (open access)

The United States and Europe: Possible Options for U.S. Policy

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Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nigeria in Political Transition (open access)

Nigeria in Political Transition

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Date: February 23, 2006
Creator: Dagne, Ted
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of the Colorado River in a picnic area at Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of vines and trees along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of a small waterfall along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of a yucca plant in bloom along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of a small waterfall along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of a fallen tree along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of a waterfall along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of a Texas Giant Centipede along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park. With the scientific name Scolopendra heros of the Order Scolopendro morpha, these centipedes have 21 or 23 pairs of legs, can be up to 8 inches long, and are poisonous.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of water plants in a pond along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of a waterfall along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of a waterfall along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of water plants in a pond along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colorado Bend State Park

Photograph of a waterfall along the Spice Wood Springs Trail in Colorado Bend State Park.
Date: April 23, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History