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Residential applications of Solar Heating and Cooling Technology: Selected references, 1973-1978
The report is to assist the consumer in comparing various designs, systems, and construction techniques in order to select those most suited to geographic location and individual preference.
Date:
January 26, 1977
Creator:
Brown, Jane Elizabeth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Support for Academic Research
Report that discusses how to address the issue of budget reductions while supporting research conducted at colleges and universities, due to the role of academic research on the economy.
Date:
January 26, 2012
Creator:
Matthews, Christine M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, focusing particularly on the influence of the Taliban and other militant groups and on the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. This report also discusses the U.S.-Afghanistan relationship, in both the short and long term, and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date:
January 26, 2011
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Proposed U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
This report examines three labor issues and arguments related to the pending U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement (CFTA; H.R. 5724 and S. 2830): violence against trade unionists; impunity (accountability for or punishment of the perpetrators); and worker rights protections for Colombians. The congressional debate surrounding the agreement has mostly centered on the violence issues in Colombia.
Date:
January 26, 2011
Creator:
Villarreal, M. Angeles
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Renewable Energy R&D Funding History: A Comparison with Funding for Nuclear Energy, Fossil Energy, and Energy Efficiency R&D
This report provides a cumulative history of Department of Energy (DOE) funding for renewable energy compared with funding for the other energy technologies-nuclear energy, fossil energy, and energy efficiency.
Date:
January 26, 2011
Creator:
Sissine, Fred
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Brief Facts and Statistics
This report provides facts and statistics about Social Security that are frequently requested by Members of Congress and their staffs. It includes information about Social Security taxes and benefits, the program's impact on its recipients' incomes, federal tax receipts, federal spending and the economy, administrative information, and selected facts about Medicare.
Date:
January 26, 2006
Creator:
Sidor, Gary
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reverse Mortgages: Background and Issues
None
Date:
January 26, 2007
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
USDA Rural Housing Programs: An Overview
This report discusses the the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) ability to make loans to farmers to enable them to construct, improve, repair, or replace dwellings and other farm buildings to provide decent, safe, and sanitary living conditions for themselves or their tenants, lessees, sharecroppers, and laborers. USDA was also authorized to make grants or combinations of loans and grants to those farmers who could not qualify to repay the full amount of a loan, but who needed the funds to make the dwellings sanitary or to remove health hazards to the occupants or the community.
Date:
January 26, 2007
Creator:
Foote, Bruce E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The New START Treaty: Central Limits and Key Provisions
None
Date:
January 26, 2011
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dairy Policy Issues
None
Date:
January 26, 2007
Creator:
Chite, Ralph M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Administration of Federal Student Loan Programs: Background and Provisions
This report discusses the history and current status of federal student loan programs. Specifically, the report focuses on the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) and the William D. Ford Direct Loan (DL). Moreover, the report highlights differences in the two programs such as that the FFEL is financed by private lenders, while the DL is financed by the federal government.
Date:
January 26, 2006
Creator:
Stoll, Adam
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fruits, Vegetables, and Other Specialty Crops: A Primer on Government Programs
This report describes the federal programs of importance to the specialty crop sector, and provides the most recent funding information available for them.
Date:
January 26, 2007
Creator:
Rawson, Jean M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate
This report discusses the current debate over "net neutrality." While there is no single accepted definition of "net neutrality," most agree that any such definition should include the general principles that owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the Internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network, and they should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network.
Date:
January 26, 2010
Creator:
Gilroy, Angele A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Immigration Policy for Intracompany Transfers (L Visa): Issues and Legislation
This report provides an overview of the issues and legislation of the immigration policy for intracompany transfers (L Visa). Concerns are growing that the visa category that allows executives and managers of multinational corporations to work temporarily in the United States is misused.
Date:
January 26, 2006
Creator:
Wasem, Ruth Ellen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Finance Legislation and Activity in the 109th Congress
This report describes Campaign Finance Legislation and Activity in the 109th Congress.
Date:
January 26, 2007
Creator:
Cantor, Joseph E. & Garrett, R. Sam
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Immigration: Policy Considerations Related to Guest Worker Programs
This report provides the policy considerations related to guest worker programs on immigration.
Date:
January 26, 2006
Creator:
Bruno, Andorra
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Internet Privacy: Overview and Legislation in the 109th Congress, 1st Session
None
Date:
January 26, 2006
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Military Commissions Act of 2006: Analysis of Procedural Rules and Comparison with Previous DOD Rules and the Uniform Code of Military Justice
None
Date:
January 26, 2007
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) and Human Rights: Background and Issues for Congress
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 allows U.S. special operations forces (SOF) to train under the Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) program in foreign countries, and does not prohibit training in nations where human rights violations have been reported. Such training includes instructing host government military units in lethal and nonlethal skills. Controversy has erupted over JCET missions in countries whose militaries are suspected or known to have committed human rights abuses. This report describes relevant legislation, SOF, JCET, alleged human rights abuses, and recent congressional initiatives and discusses further options and issues.
Date:
January 26, 1999
Creator:
Story, William C., Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Afghan Refugees: Current Status and Future Prospects
This report discusses the situation of Afghan refugees and future prospects.
Date:
January 26, 2007
Creator:
Margesson, Rhoda
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nigeria: Background and U.S. Relations
None
Date:
January 26, 2007
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program
This report provides a summary of the statutory history of the automated entry and exit data system, which was renamed the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program by the Bush Administration. It also discusses other laws that affect the implementation of the system and provides an analysis of the documentary requirements under current law. The report also discusses efforts to implement the program and selected issues associated with its development and implementation.
Date:
January 26, 2006
Creator:
Seghetti, Lisa M. & Viña, Stephen R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defense Export Loan Guarantee Program (DELG)
This report provides an overview of the Defense Export Loan Guarantee Program (DELG) which became operational on November 8, 1996. It discusses the major features of the program, which is aimed at assisting prospective foreign purchasers of U.S. defense equipment finance those purchase through private sector loans.
Date:
January 26, 1998
Creator:
Grimmett, Richard F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The European Union’s Energy Security Challenges
This report examines some of Europe's critical energy challenges and EU efforts to coordinate a common European energy strategy. It also includes an overview of broader transatlantic energy security cooperation.
Date:
January 26, 2007
Creator:
Belkin, Paul & Morelli, Vince L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library