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Cuba: Issues for the 114th Congress (open access)

Cuba: Issues for the 114th Congress

This report is divided into three major sections analyzing Cuba's political and economic environment, U.S. policy, and selected issues in U.S.-Cuban relations. While legislative initiatives are noted throughout the report, a final section of the report provides a listing of bills and resolutions introduced in the 114th Congress.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): Congressional Interest and Executive Enforcement, In Brief (open access)

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): Congressional Interest and Executive Enforcement, In Brief

This report briefly discusses the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act of 1977 (FCPA), which was intended to prevent corporate bribery of foreign officials. Criticisms of the act's operation and scope began almost immediately after its passage and have continued. This report addresses these criticisms.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Seitzinger, Michael V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Five Years of the Budget Control Act's Disaster Relief Adjustment (open access)

Five Years of the Budget Control Act's Disaster Relief Adjustment

The Budget Control Act (P.L. 112-25, hereinafter the BCA) established a set of limits on federal spending, as well as a set of mechanisms to adjust those limits to accommodate spending that has special priority. This report looks at how the adjustment has functioned over the first five years, and what the future of disaster relief (as defined under the BCA) may look like under current law for the next five years and beyond.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Lindsay, Bruce R.; McCarthy, Francis X. & McCarthy, Francis X.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Title X (Public Health Service Act) Family Planning Program (open access)

Title X (Public Health Service Act) Family Planning Program

This report discusses various issues regarding the Family Planning Program, Title X of the Public Health Service Act. Enacted in 1970, it is the only domestic federal program devoted solely to family planning and related preventive health services.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Napili, Angela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Justice Antonin Scalia's Last Opinion (open access)

Justice Antonin Scalia's Last Opinion

This report discusses Justice Antonin Scalia's last opinion for the court (Kansas v. Carr). There, the Court reversed two decisions of the Kansas Supreme Court and held that "the Eighth Amendment [does not] require... capital-sentencing courts to instruct the jury that mitigating circumstances need not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt." It also held that the Eighth Amendment did not require separate trials for two of the defendants in one of the Kansas cases.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy John Lewis (TAO-205) Class Oiler Shipbuilding Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy John Lewis (TAO-205) Class Oiler Shipbuilding Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the John Lewis (TAO-205) class oiler shipbuilding program, a program to build a new class of 17 fleet oilers for the Navy.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Primer registro de Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus 1758) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) en la isla Navarino, Chile (open access)

Primer registro de Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus 1758) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) en la isla Navarino, Chile

This article documents the presence of the common wasp V. vulgaris on Navarino Island, Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Southern Chile.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Cárcamo, Jaime; Contador, Tamara; Crego, Ramiro D.; Jordán, Natalia I.; Schüttler, Elke; Gañán, Melisa et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 53, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 53, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 226, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 226, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 107, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 107, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Brock, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 306, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 306, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Linebarger, Les
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Semiweekly newspaper from Center, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Snyder, Steve
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 138, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 138, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Trigg, Delania
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daily newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Reddell, Valerie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Triweekly newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 39, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 39, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Emory, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Hill, Trey
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Maxwell, March 15, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Richard Maxwell, March 15, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Maxwell. Maxwell joined the Navy in September of 1941. He completed Officer Candidate School, and served as Yeoman Second Class aboard a landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP), and later served as Captain aboard an amphibious command ship (LCC). In 1942, Maxwell deployed to Hawaii. In the Solomon Islands, he worked as an administrator of a PBY outfit. After the war, he served with occupation forces in Japan.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Maxwell, Richard
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Maxwell, March 15, 2016 transcript

Oral History Interview with Richard Maxwell, March 15, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Maxwell. Maxwell joined the Navy in September of 1941. He completed Officer Candidate School, and served as Yeoman Second Class aboard a landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP), and later served as Captain aboard an amphibious command ship (LCC). In 1942, Maxwell deployed to Hawaii. In the Solomon Islands, he worked as an administrator of a PBY outfit. After the war, he served with occupation forces in Japan.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Maxwell, Richard
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 15, 2016
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History