Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict (open access)

Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

This report presents an overview of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. This is a clash between the principles of territorial integrity and self-determination that is occurring in the Caucasus, creating the longest inter-ethnic dispute in the former Soviet Union. The report includes the background and analysis of history, warfare and peace process in the region. The report discusses the Armenian and Azerbaijani perspective, the role and views of others (Iran, Turkey, Russia), as well as the U.S. policy regarding the conflict.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq's New Security Forces: The Challenge of Sectarian and Ethnic Influences (open access)

Iraq's New Security Forces: The Challenge of Sectarian and Ethnic Influences

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Date: March 25, 2005
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
School Choice: Current Legislation (open access)

School Choice: Current Legislation

Congressional Research Service (CRS) report entailing information about current legislation in regards to school choice. Topics include, legislation, proposals in the 107th Congress, tax subsidies, block grants, etc..
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Smole, David P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Postal Service Financial Problems and Stakeholder Proposals (open access)

Postal Service Financial Problems and Stakeholder Proposals

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Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Stevens, Nye
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brownfields and Superfund Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Brownfields and Superfund Issues in the 108th Congress

The Superfund program for cleaning up the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites was created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, or CERCLA (P.L. 96-510, as amended). This report discusses recent development and background issues, superfund issues, revenue issues, comprehensive reauthorization, and legislation regarding superfund program.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Reisch, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed Change to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) under S. 113 (open access)

Proposed Change to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) under S. 113

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Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) (open access)

Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA)

Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) provides assistance to previously employed or self- employed individuals rendered unemployed as a direct result of a major disaster and who are not eligible for regular federal/state unemployment insurance (UI). DUA is federally funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but is administered by the state UI agencies.
Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Lake, Jennifer E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Judicial Salary-Setting Policy (open access)

Judicial Salary-Setting Policy

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Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Gressle, Sharon S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
HIV/AIDS International Programs: FY2003 Request and FY2002 Spending (open access)

HIV/AIDS International Programs: FY2003 Request and FY2002 Spending

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Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Protecting Natural Resources and Managing Growth: Issues in the 107th Congress (open access)

Protecting Natural Resources and Managing Growth: Issues in the 107th Congress

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Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerging from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters and leaders that remain at large, including Osama bin Laden. As the war against remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban elements winds down, the United States is shifting its military focus toward stabilizing the interim government, including training a new Afghan national army, and supporting the international security force (ISAF) that is helping the new government provide security.
Date: March 25, 2004
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Presidential and Vice Presidential Succession: Overview and Current Legislation (open access)

Presidential and Vice Presidential Succession: Overview and Current Legislation

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Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Neale, Thomas H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development: Budgeting and Priority-Setting Issues, 107th Congress (open access)

Federal Research and Development: Budgeting and Priority-Setting Issues, 107th Congress

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Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Knezo, Genevieve J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2003 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2003

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Date: March 25, 2002
Creator: Moteff, John D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Caribbean Basin Interim Trade Program: CBI/NAFTA Parity (open access)

Caribbean Basin Interim Trade Program: CBI/NAFTA Parity

The entry into force, on January 1, 1994, of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has eliminated the advantage that the beneficiaries of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) and related provisions of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) had enjoyed in trade with the United States relative to Mexico, and gave Mexico an increasingly significant competitive edge over the CBERA countries. The scheduled further implementation of the NAFTA would have resulted in a substantial advantage to Mexico over the CBERA countries and vitiate in part the purpose of the CBERA.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Pregelj, Vladimir N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arming Pilots Against Terrorism: Implementation Issues for the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program (open access)

Arming Pilots Against Terrorism: Implementation Issues for the Federal Flight Deck Officer Program

The report discusses the issues regarding the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135), which contains provisions to arm pilots of passenger aircraft and gives deputized pilots the authority to use force, including lethal force, to defend the flight deck against criminal and terrorist threats. The report includes the legislative Background, implementation issues, equipment, training, operational procedures and costs.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Elias, Bartholomew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles (open access)

Homeland Security: Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles

This report discusses about the Homeland Security on Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles where Recent events have focused attention on the threat that terrorists with shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles pose to commercial airliners. Most believe that no single solution exists to effectively mitigate this threat.
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher & Elias, Bartholomew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Capable Missiles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (open access)

Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Capable Missiles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

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Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview (open access)

Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

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Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues (open access)

Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues

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Date: March 25, 2005
Creator: Prados, Alfred B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hurricanes and Disaster Risk Financing Through Insurance: Challenges and Policy Options (open access)

Hurricanes and Disaster Risk Financing Through Insurance: Challenges and Policy Options

The U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal states, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Island are exposed to relatively high levels of risk from hurricanes and tropical storms. The rapid expansion of the U.S. population into areas that are susceptible to hurricanes has placed millions of people and new areas of economic activity in harm’s way. To address the financial and economic effects of such risks, households and businesses have relied on private insurance, state-sponsored insurance pools, and/or federal emergency disaster assistance to manage their natural hazard risk.
Date: March 25, 2005
Creator: King, Rawle O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program: Overview and Issues (open access)

FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program: Overview and Issues

This report provides an overview and discussion of federal hazard mitigation assistance. Hazard mitigation can potentially reduce federal costs by decreasing the level of damage from future disasters. Of the $96.1 billion expended for disaster assistance since 1989, FEMA allocated $4.4 billion for hazard mitigation activities to prevent or ease the impact of natural disasters.
Date: March 25, 2009
Creator: Love, Natalie P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Madagascar's 2009 Political Crisis (open access)

Madagascar's 2009 Political Crisis

This report discusses political tensions on the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar between President Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina, the former mayor of the capital city, which escalated in early 2009, culminating in the President's forced removal from office.
Date: March 25, 2009
Creator: Ploch, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library
Authority of State Legislatures to Accept Funds Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (open access)

Authority of State Legislatures to Accept Funds Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

This report analyzes the language contained in § 1607 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act),1 which provides that federal funds can be made available to a state by the federal government either after certification by a governor that such money will be requested and spent or after the adoption of a concurrent resolution by a state legislature. This report evaluates the authority of state legislatures to, by concurrent resolution, provide for the acceptance of federal funds.
Date: March 25, 2009
Creator: Thomas, Kenneth R.
System: The UNT Digital Library