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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.
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.
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
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dominican Republic: Update on Citizenship and Humanitarian Issues (open access)

Dominican Republic: Update on Citizenship and Humanitarian Issues

This report briefly examines social issues in the Dominican Republic regarding the treatment of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Date: April 27, 2016
Creator: Ribando Seelke, Clare & Margesson, Rhoda
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Resurgence of Unaccompanied Alien Children? (open access)

A Resurgence of Unaccompanied Alien Children?

This report briefly examines the recently-high number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC). In the first seven months of FY2016, apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border have approached levels close to what they were in FY2014 when such migration flows reached what were characterized as "crisis" proportions.
Date: May 27, 2016
Creator: Kandel, William A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Midnight Rules: Congressional Oversight and Options (open access)

Midnight Rules: Congressional Oversight and Options

This report discusses "midnight rulemaking," referring to the phenomenon during the final months of recent presidential administrations when federal agencies have typically issued a larger number of rules relative to comparable time periods earlier in the administration. It likely occurs because the outgoing presidential administration wants to achieve certain policy goals before the end of its term.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Carey, Maeve P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Security Cooperation and the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (open access)

Security Cooperation and the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

This report discusses provisions in the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that have elevated ongoing debates over U.S. security sector assistance to foreign countries--and raised questions over whether the policy architecture is suited to meet current and emerging requirements.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Rosen, Liana W.; Serafino, Nina M.; McInnis, Kathleen J. & Skorupski, Bolko J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pesticide Registration Fees: Reauthorization and Proposed Amendments (open access)

Pesticide Registration Fees: Reauthorization and Proposed Amendments

This report discusses the EPA's pesticide registration fees and legislation authorizing them as well as upcoming reauthorizations and possible changes.
Date: September 27, 2017
Creator: Yen, Jerry H. & Esworthy, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pipeline Safety: Overdue Statutory Mandates (open access)

Pipeline Safety: Overdue Statutory Mandates

This report discusses the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA) failure to fulfill key mandates of the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-90) and the PIPES Act of 2016 (P.L. 114-183).
Date: July 27, 2018
Creator: Parfomak, Paul W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expedited Procedures Governing Senate Consideration of Legislation Waiving a Restriction Related to the Military Service of the Secretary of Defense (open access)

Expedited Procedures Governing Senate Consideration of Legislation Waiving a Restriction Related to the Military Service of the Secretary of Defense

This report discusses the Section 179 of the Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017 (P.L. 114-254), which establishes expedited or "fast track" parliamentary procedures governing Senate consideration of legislation that would waive a legal restriction related to the prior military service of the Secretary of Defense.
Date: December 27, 2016
Creator: Davis, Christopher M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran Policy and the European Union (open access)

Iran Policy and the European Union

This report expresses concerns by European Union (EU) officials that the Trump Administration might abandon consensus U.S.- EU policy toward Iran.
Date: February 27, 2017
Creator: Mix, Derek E.
System: The UNT Digital Library