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Cuba: Issues for the 111th Congress (open access)

Cuba: Issues for the 111th Congress

This report discusses the current political conditions of Cuba, as well as its relationship with the United States. In particular, the report focuses on U.S. policy regarding Cuba, including various economic sanctions, human rights issues, and foreign aid appropriations.
Date: January 4, 2011
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges (open access)

Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges

This report reviews the intelligence appropriations process, describes various changes that have been proposed, and analyzes the issues associated with the proposals.
Date: January 20, 2011
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier (CVN) Homeporting at Mayport: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier (CVN) Homeporting at Mayport: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the Navy's proposal to homeport a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVN) at Mayport, Florida. Economic and homeland security concerns are discussed.
Date: January 14, 2011
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sending Mail to Members of the Armed Forces at Reduced or Free Postage: An Overview (open access)

Sending Mail to Members of the Armed Forces at Reduced or Free Postage: An Overview

This report looks the background, and current methods of, sending mail to troops serving overseas via subsidized postage.
Date: January 14, 2011
Creator: Kosar, Kevin R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guantanamo Detention Center: Legislative Activity in the 111th Congress (open access)

Guantanamo Detention Center: Legislative Activity in the 111th Congress

This report analyzes relevant provisions in enacted legislation and selected pending bills relating to the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a facility in which alleged enemy belligerents are detained.
Date: January 13, 2011
Creator: Garcia, Michael John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Veterans' Benefits: Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) for Survivors (open access)

Veterans' Benefits: Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) for Survivors

This report outlines the eligibility requirements and benefit levels for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) and related policy issues.
Date: January 4, 2011
Creator: Scott, Christine
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee on the Budget in the House of Representatives: Structure and Responsibilities (open access)

Committee on the Budget in the House of Representatives: Structure and Responsibilities

Report describing the structure and responsibilities of the Committee on the Budget in the House of Representatives.
Date: January 13, 2011
Creator: Lynch, Megan Suzanne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: History, Impact, and Issues (open access)

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: History, Impact, and Issues

Report that examines debates over what constitutes an unfunded federal mandate and the implementation of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) of 1995.
Date: January 25, 2011
Creator: Dilger, Robert Jay & Beth, Richard S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Disadvantaged" Small Businesses: Definitions and Designations for Purposes of Federal and Federally Funded Contracting Programs (open access)

"Disadvantaged" Small Businesses: Definitions and Designations for Purposes of Federal and Federally Funded Contracting Programs

This report discusses what constitutes a "disadvantaged" small business for purposes of federal and federally funded contracting programs and how firms are certified or otherwise designated as such.
Date: January 3, 2011
Creator: Manuel, Kate M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians (open access)

Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians

Report collecting statistics from a variety of sources on casualties sustained during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), which began on October 7, 2001. OEF actions take place primarily in Afghanistan; however, OEF casualties also includes American casualties in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, the Philippines, Seychelles, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Yemen.
Date: January 14, 2011
Creator: Chesser, Susan G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2011 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2011

Report summarizing the 2011 Fiscal Year budget request for research & development (R&D) funding, including comparisons to R&D funding requests in the FY2010 budget. In addition, this report breaks down the various aspects of the President's FY2011 R&D funding request.
Date: January 4, 2011
Creator: Sargent, John F., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, and Technology (open access)

U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, and Technology

Report regarding the role of the United States and other foreign companies in facilitating Internet censorship by repressive regimes overseas.
Date: January 3, 2011
Creator: Moloney Figliola, Patricia; Addis, Casey L. & Lum, Thomas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy SSBN(X) Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy SSBN(X) Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress

Report discussing the United States Navy's plan to develop and design a class of 12 next-generation ballistic missile submarines, or SSBN(X)s, as replacements for the 14 Ohio class SSBNs currently in operation. The report explores the affordability of the project and its potential impact on other Navy shipbuilding programs, alternatives to the program, and which shipyard or shipyards will build the proposed ships.
Date: January 14, 2011
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

Report that discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government. Election fraud and corruption in Afghanistan are also discussed.
Date: January 21, 2011
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The European Parliament (open access)

The European Parliament

Report that discusses the construction and history of the European Parliament (EP), its role in functions of the EU as well as internationally, various international supports and criticisms of the EP, and the EP's ties with the U.S. Congress.
Date: January 21, 2011
Creator: Archick, Kristin & Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Base Closures: Socioeconomic Impacts (open access)

Military Base Closures: Socioeconomic Impacts

This report explores the potential economic impact of military closures on communities, especially rural communities, which are more heavily affected by such closures and suffer from slower economic recovery times in such instances.
Date: January 11, 2011
Creator: Cowan, Tadlock & Gonzales, Oscar R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Trade Deficit and the Impact of Changing Oil Prices (open access)

U.S. Trade Deficit and the Impact of Changing Oil Prices

Report that provides an estimate of the initial impact of the changing oil prices on the nation's merchandise trade deficit.
Date: January 13, 2011
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Operations: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Operations: Background and Issues for Congress

Report that details the Navy's irregular warfare (IW) and counterterrorism (CT) activities.
Date: January 21, 2011
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress (open access)

Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress

Report that discusses the process of naming Navy ships, which have traditionally been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy. Congress in recent years has proposed, and sometimes passed, legislation regarding the naming of specific ships.
Date: January 13, 2011
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Food Safety System: A Primer (open access)

The Federal Food Safety System: A Primer

Report concerning food safety, the resources required to ensure food safety, and whether federal food safety laws themselves, first enacted in the early 1900s, have kept pace with the significant changes that have occurred in the food production, processing, and marketing sectors since then.
Date: January 11, 2011
Creator: Johnson, Renée
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cluster Munitions: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Cluster Munitions: Background and Issues for Congress

Report that discusses the background of cluster munitions in the U.S. military, and the current Department of Defense (DOD) and Obama Administration stances on the topic. It also discusses the two major international initiatives to address cluster munitions: the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and negotiations under the U.N. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).
Date: January 11, 2011
Creator: Feickert, Andrew & Kerr, Paul K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identifying Leaders in an Online Cancer Survivor Community (open access)

Identifying Leaders in an Online Cancer Survivor Community

Paper on identifying leaders in an online cancer survivor community.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Zhao, Kang; Qiu, Baojun; Caragea, Cornelia; Wu, Dinghao; Mitra, Prasenjit; Yen, John et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 63, Number 8, April 2011 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 63, Number 8, April 2011

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: April 2011
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Riccoboni's 1768 Letter to the Mercure de France: Reclaiming a Woman Writer's Literary Legacy (open access)

Riccoboni's 1768 Letter to the Mercure de France: Reclaiming a Woman Writer's Literary Legacy

Article on Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's 1768 letter to the Mercure de France and the reclaiming of a woman writer's literary legacy.
Date: 2011
Creator: Kaplan, Marijn S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library