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Letter to Colonel Thomas White, 29 March 1866 (open access)

Letter to Colonel Thomas White, 29 March 1866

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: March 29, 1866
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 29 March 1872 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, 29 March 1872

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: March 29, 1872
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Global Climate Change: Selected Legal Questions About the Kyoto Protocol (open access)

Global Climate Change: Selected Legal Questions About the Kyoto Protocol

This report addresses legal issues after the United States signed the Kyoto Protocol to the UnitedNations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protocol is not yet in effect internationally and cannot be legally binding on the U.S. unless and until the Senate gives its advice and consent.
Date: March 29, 2001
Creator: Ackerman, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality and Electricity: Initiatives to Increase Pollution Controls (open access)

Air Quality and Electricity: Initiatives to Increase Pollution Controls

This report discusses air quality initiatives (such as the Ozone Transport Rule) that primarily focus on reducing and enforcing emissions from coal-fired electric generating utilities in the Midwest and South.
Date: March 29, 2001
Creator: Parker, Larry & Blodgett, John E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Steel Jaw Leghold Trap: Issues and Concerns (open access)

The Steel Jaw Leghold Trap: Issues and Concerns

Steel jaw leghold traps are used in 47 States in the United States to capture furbearing animals (Florida and Rhode Island have prohibited use except with special permit for nuisance animals, and New Jersey has banned all uses). In addition to use by the fur industry, these traps are employed by State agencies in game management (e.g., to control predators and diseases). The leghold trap issue pits animal welfare groups opposed to the pain and suffering of trapped animals against supporters of the trap who maintain that alternatives are not cost effective and/or efficient.
Date: March 29, 1993
Creator: Corn, M. Lynne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evolution of the Senate's Role in the Nomination and Confirmation Process: A Brief History (open access)

Evolution of the Senate's Role in the Nomination and Confirmation Process: A Brief History

Over time, the Senate has developed a series of procedures to deal with the concerns of its Members on nominations. First is the custom of senatorial courtesy, whereby Senators from the same party as the President might influence a nomination or kill it by objecting to it. This tradition has not always been absolute, but it has allowed Senators to play a fairly large role, particularly in the selection of nominees within a Senator’s home state, such as for district court judgeships.
Date: March 29, 2005
Creator: Palmer, Betsy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Budget for FY2003: Data Summary (open access)

Defense Budget for FY2003: Data Summary

This report is designed to be a readily accessible source of facts and figures on the FY2003 defense budget. Part I presents basic data on the national defense budget request, including figures on budget authority and outlays for the Department of Defense and for the national defense budget function. Part II shows trends in overall defense spending, including figures on the growth and decline of defense spending, on defense outlays as a share of federal expenditures, on defense outlays as a share of gross domestic product, and on foreign military spending. Part III defines key defense budget terms.
Date: March 29, 2002
Creator: Daggett, Stephen & Belasco, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan's Budget: Role in Economic Policymaking (open access)

Japan's Budget: Role in Economic Policymaking

The Japanese economy has been in recession for three years, making it the longest recession in Japan's post-war experience. Groups within and outside Japan are calling on Japan to adopt aggressive fiscal policy measures to boost the Japanese economy and to aid in the recovery of the world economy. Japan has enacted a number of limited measures to stimulate, but it is unlikely to move more aggressively to adopt deficit-financing measures to stimulate its economy for a number of reasons: political and government leaders oppose deficit financing in principle; and under present economic conditions, Japanese officials are more concerned with the effects a fiscal stimulus program will have on the yen, on Japan's trade account, and on its economic recovery.
Date: March 29, 1994
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Authority to Standardize National Election Procedures (open access)

Congressional Authority to Standardize National Election Procedures

Recent events surrounding the Presidential election have led to increased scrutiny of voting procedures in the United States. This report focuses on the constitutional authority and limitations that might be relevant to attempts by Congress to standardize these and other procedures.
Date: March 29, 2001
Creator: Thomas, Kenneth R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Electoral College: Reform Proposals in the 107th Congress (open access)

The Electoral College: Reform Proposals in the 107th Congress

Seven proposals to reform the Electoral College system have been introduced to date in the 107th Congress. H.J.Res. 3 (Representative Green of Texas), and H.J.Res. 5 (Representative Delahunt) would eliminate the electoral college, substituting direct popular election of the President. H.J.Res. 1 (Representative Clyburn), H.J.Res. 18 (Representative Engel), and H.J.Res. 37 (Representative Clement) would incorporate the “district” method of awarding electoral votes, and H.J.Res. 17 (Representative Engel) would provide for proportional award of electoral votes. H.J.Res. 25 (Representative Leach) is a hybrid plan. These measures have been referred to the House Judiciary Committee and await further action.
Date: March 29, 2001
Creator: Neale, Thomas H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Excise Tax on Gasoline and the Highway Trust Fund: A Short History (open access)

The Federal Excise Tax on Gasoline and the Highway Trust Fund: A Short History

Excise taxes have long been a part of our country's revenue history. In the field of gasoline taxation, the states led the way with Oregon enacting the first tax on motor fuels in 1919. By 1932, all states and the District of Columbia had followed suit with tax rates that ranged between two and seven cents per gallon. The federal government first imposed its excise tax on gasoline at a one cent per gallon rate in 1932. The gas tax was enacted to correct a federal budgetary imbalance.
Date: March 29, 2000
Creator: Talley, Louis Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues (open access)

Africa: U.S. Foreign Assistance Issues

This report discusses the issue of U.S. economic assistance to sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the importance of continued assistance in light of U.S. national security and also various U.S.-led efforts to promote reform amongst African citizens themselves. U.S. assistance finds its way to Africa through a variety of channels, including the USAID-administered DA program, food aid programs, and indirect aid provided through international financial institutions and the United Nations.
Date: March 29, 2002
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multilateral Development Banks: Issues for the 108th Congress (open access)

Multilateral Development Banks: Issues for the 108th Congress

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Date: March 29, 2003
Creator: Sanford, Jonathan E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorism: The New Occupational Hazard (open access)

Terrorism: The New Occupational Hazard

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Date: March 29, 2002
Creator: Rappaport, Edward B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Financial Outlook for Social Security and Medicare (open access)

The Financial Outlook for Social Security and Medicare

This report provides an overview of the financial outlook for Social Security and Medicare programs.
Date: March 29, 2004
Creator: Nuschler, Dawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Income Tax and the Treatment of Married Couples: Background and Analysis (open access)

The Federal Income Tax and the Treatment of Married Couples: Background and Analysis

This report provides background and analysis of the Federal Income Tax and the treatment of married couples.
Date: March 29, 2001
Creator: Esenwein, Gregg A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadband Internet Access: Background and Issues (open access)

Broadband Internet Access: Background and Issues

From a public policy perspective, the goals are to ensure that broadband deployment is timely, that industry competes fairly, and that service is provided to all sectors and geographical locations of American society. The federal government -- through Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) -- is seeking to ensure fair competition among the players so that broadband will be available and affordable in a timely manner to all Americans who want it. While the FCC's position is not to intervene at this time, some assert that legislation is necessary to ensure fair competition and timely broadband deployment. One proposal would ease certain legal restrictions and requirements, imposed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, on incumbent telephone companies who provide high speed data (broadband) access. Another proposal would compel cable companies to provide "open access" to competing Internet service providers.
Date: March 29, 2004
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A. & Kruger, Lennard G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Border and Transportation Security: The Complexity of the Challenge (open access)

Border and Transportation Security: The Complexity of the Challenge

This report uses a series of graphical presentations to form one possible framework that might assist policy makers in understanding the complex nature of border and transportation security. It is the first in a three-part series of CRS reports that make use of analytical frameworks to better understand complex problems in border and transportation security and cast them in terms that facilitate the consideration of alternative policies and practices.
Date: March 29, 2005
Creator: Lake, Jennifer E.; Robinson, William H. & Seghetti, Lisa M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Border and Transportation Security: Selected Programs and Policies (open access)

Border and Transportation Security: Selected Programs and Policies

Border and Transportation Security (BTS) is a pivotal function in protecting the American people from terrorists and their instruments of destruction. This report addresses selected programs and policies now in place that seek to attain higher levels of BTS. It is the second in a three-part series of CRS reports that make use of analytical frameworks to better understand complex phenomena and cast them in terms that facilitate consideration of alternative policies and practices.
Date: March 29, 2005
Creator: Seghetti, Lisa M.; Lake, Jennifer E. & Robinson, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Border and Transportation Security: Possible New Directions and Policy Options (open access)

Border and Transportation Security: Possible New Directions and Policy Options

There is consensus that Border and Transportation Security (BTS) is a pivotal function in protecting the American people from terrorists and their instruments of destruction. The issue for Congress is how to achieve desired levels of security, while not compromising other important values in the process. This report addresses possible new approaches and policy options that might be explored by Congress to attain these goals. It is one of three CRS reports in a series that make use of analytical frameworks to better understand complex problems in BTS and to facilitate consideration of alternative policies and practices.
Date: March 29, 2005
Creator: Robinson, William H.; Lake, Jennifer E. & Seghetti, Lisa M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Warhead "Pit" Production: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Nuclear Warhead "Pit" Production: Background and Issues for Congress

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Date: March 29, 2004
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Brazos River: Lock and Dam #1

Lock and Dam #1
Date: March 29, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brazos River: Lock and Dam #1

Lock and Dam #1
Date: March 29, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brazos River: Lock and Dam #3

Lock and Dam #3
Date: March 29, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History