Military Service Records, Awards, and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources (open access)

Military Service Records, Awards, and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources

This report provides information on locating military unit histories and individual service records of discharged, retired, and deceased military personnel. It also provides information on locating and replacing military awards and medals as well as contact information for military history centers, websites for additional sources of research, and a bibliography of other publications, including related CRS reports.
Date: January 2, 2018
Creator: DeBruyne, Nese F. & Torreon, Barbara Salazar
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: December 2017, Part 1 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: December 2017, Part 1

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: January 2, 2018
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: December 2017, Part 4 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: December 2017, Part 4

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: January 2, 2018
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: December 2017, Part 5 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: December 2017, Part 5

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: January 2, 2018
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: December 2017, Part 6 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: December 2017, Part 6

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: January 2, 2018
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics (open access)

American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics

This report provides U.S. war casualty statistics. It includes data tables containing the number of casualties among American military personnel who served in principal wars and combat actions from 1775 to the present. It also includes data on those wounded in action and information such as race and ethnicity, gender, branch of service, and cause of death. The tables are compiled from various Department of Defense (DOD) sources.
Date: January 2, 2015
Creator: DeBruyne, Nese F. & Leland, Anne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Desalination and Membrane Technologies: Federal Research and Adoption Issues (open access)

Desalination and Membrane Technologies: Federal Research and Adoption Issues

This report discusses emerging technologies (e.g., forward osmosis, nanocomposite and chlorine resistant membranes) that show promise for reducing desalination costs. It also discusses the research to support development of emerging technologies and to reduce desalination's environmental and social impacts.
Date: January 2, 2015
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insurance Regulation: Issues, Background, and Legislation in the 113th Congress (open access)

Insurance Regulation: Issues, Background, and Legislation in the 113th Congress

This report discusses the legislation in the 113th Congress regarding insurance regulation. Among the insurance regulatory issues addressed by legislation in the 113th Congress are the application of federal orderly liquidation authority to insurers (addressed in H.R. 605); the supervision of some insurers by the Federal Reserve (addressed in H.R. 2140, H.R. 4510, H.R. 5461, S. 2102, and S. 2270); and the licensing of insurance agents and brokers (addressed in S. 534, S. 1926, S. 2244, H.R. 1155/H.R. 1064, and H.R. 4871).
Date: January 2, 2015
Creator: Webel, Baird
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Trade and Finance: Key Policy Issues for the 114th Congress (open access)

International Trade and Finance: Key Policy Issues for the 114th Congress

This report covers policy issues in areas such as: U.S. trade negotiations; U.S. trade and economic relations with regions and countries; international trade institutions; tariff and nontariff barriers; worker dislocation from trade liberalization; trade remedy laws; import and export policies; international investment; economic sanctions; and trade policy functions of the federal government.
Date: January 2, 2015
Creator: Irace, Mary A. & Williams, Brock R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 40, Number 1, Pages 1-126, January 2, 2015 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 40, Number 1, Pages 1-126, January 2, 2015

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: January 2, 2015
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Army's Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Army's Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report looks at the history and current need for a Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program. Potential issues for Congress include the role and need for the GCV in a downsized Army that will likely have fewer heavy brigade combat teams (HBCTs).
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) (open access)

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)

This report gives a brief overview of P.L. 110-49, the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007. Although both the President and Congress are directly involved in formulating the scope and direction of U.S. foreign investment policy, this law broadens Congress' oversight role; it also explicitly includes the areas of homeland security and critical infrastructure as separately-identifiable components of national security that the President must consider when evaluating the national security implications of a foreign investment transaction.
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Higher Education Act (HEA): A Primer (open access)

The Higher Education Act (HEA): A Primer

This report discusses the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA; P.L. 89-329) that authorizes numerous federal aid programs that provide support to both individuals pursuing a postsecondary education and institutions of higher education (IHEs).
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Hegji, Alexandra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Rates and Economic Growth (open access)

Tax Rates and Economic Growth

This report summarizes the evidence on the relationship between tax rates and economic growth, referring in a number of cases to more-detailed CRS reports.
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G. & Marples, Donald J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1034 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1034

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Government Code section 51.608, which requires that court costs imposed on a defendant in a criminal proceeding be the amount required on the date the defendant is convicted, violates federal and state constitutional prohibitions of ex post facto laws (RQ-1135-GA).
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1035 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1035

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Confidentiality of records in juvenile misdemeanor cases (RQ-1136-GA).
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1036 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1036

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Texas Constitution article XVI, section 40 prohibits a constable from serving as a commissioner of an emergency services district (RQ-1137-GA).
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1037 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1037

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether councils of governments are "units of general local government" for purposes of the federal HOME Investment Partnership Program (RQ-1139-GA).
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Army's Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Army's Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report examines the history and current need for a Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program. Potential issues for Congress include the role and need for the GCV in a downsized Army that will likely have fewer heavy brigade combat teams (HBCTs).
Date: January 2, 2013
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides an overview of Arctic-related issues for Congress, and refers readers to more in-depth CRS reports on specific Arctic-related issues.
Date: January 2, 2013
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Background and Current Developments (open access)

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Background and Current Developments

This report discusses the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which bans all nuclear explosion and was in 1996 adopted by the U.N. General Assembly but rejected by the U.S. Senate in 1997. This report discusses the Obama Administration's stated goal of pursuing U.S. ratification of the CTBT, although the Administration has mainly focused on securing Senate consent to ratification of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). This report also discusses other nuclear weapons-related issues as well as the long history of nuclear testing.
Date: January 2, 2013
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education-Related Regulatory Flexibilities, Waivers, and Federal Assistance in Response to Disasters and National Emergencies (open access)

Education-Related Regulatory Flexibilities, Waivers, and Federal Assistance in Response to Disasters and National Emergencies

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Date: January 2, 2013
Creator: Dortch, Cassandra; Skinner, Rebecca R. & Smole, David P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy (open access)

Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy

This report is intended as a primer on the policy issues, and governance of geoengineering technologies.
Date: January 2, 2013
Creator: Bracmort, Kelsi & Lattanzio, Richard K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: House Committee on Culture, Recreation, & Tourism (open access)

Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: House Committee on Culture, Recreation, & Tourism

Report from the Texas House Committee on Culture, Recreation, & Tourism describing the group's goals, activities, accomplishments, and other information, for review by the 83rd Texas Legislature.
Date: January 2, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Culture, Recreation, and Tourism.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History