This report examines some of the history of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA), focusing primarily on its creation and most recent legislative reauthorization. It also discusses the foremost active authorities of the DPA.

This report examines some of the history of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA), focusing primarily on its creation and most recent legislative reauthorization. It also discusses the foremost active authorities of the DPA.

The report discusses the american opportunity tax credit. It is categorized into four categories: (I) Current Law, (II) Legislative History, (III) Analysis and (IV) Policy options.

This report provides an overview of the child tax credit under current law, as well as a legislative history of this tax benefit, which helps explain its purpose and current structure.

This report provides a description of the eligibility requirements, benefit availability, benefit payments, participation, and obligations of the Post-9/11 GI Bill. The report also describes a few issues that may be addressed by Congress.

This report briefly outlines the history of incidents involving civilian flights being hit by shoulder fired missiles and discusses the Directed Infrared Countermeasure (DIRCM) systems, which were developed to be mounted on commercial airliners for defense against infrared guided missiles and were never widely implemented. The report discusses the limitations of DIRCM systems, especially in the context of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which would not have been saved by such a system due to having been brought down by a radar-guided missile. The report also examines alternative ways to protect commercial airliners from missile attacks, such as flight techniques and ground-based systems.

This report examines the circumstances surrounding the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). The report considers several factors that lead investigators to believe that the plane may have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired from a Buk road-mobile missile erector-launcher, including the type of damage directly sustained by the plane, the large debris field, the crash's proximity to an active conflict zone in which military aircraft had recently been shot down and U.S. intelligence that detected a missile launch from the area around the time the plane was overhead.

This report 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. The report also includes discussion of election fraud and corruption in Afghanistan.

Panel presentation for the 2014 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses open access issues, institutional repositories, licenses, and author rights.

Handout accompanying a panel presentation for the 2014 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Conference. This handout lists major resources relating to open access, copyright and publishers, and open data and data sharing.

This report discusses two different federal statutes that regulate beverage labels.

News release about DART's light rail extension to DFW International Airport helping to make the Dallas area more attractive to businesses.

News release about the opening of DART's light rail extension to DFW International Airport and accompanying schedule and route changes.

This report provides a state-by-state breakdown of the grants awarded to date. It then briefly describes the requirement for exchanges to be selfsustaining, and concludes with a discussion of the sources and amounts of funding that Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has used and plans to use to support federally-facilitated exchange (FFE) operations.

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

This report opens with an analysis of the data of the recent surge in UAC crossing the border. It then discusses current policy on the treatment, care, and custody of the population. The processing and treatment of UAC is detailed, with a discussion of each agency that is involved with the population. The report then discusses both Administrative and Congressional action to deal with the current crisis. As this issue is still emerging, the report concludes with a series of questions related to UAC that remain unanswered.

The legislative appropriations request from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for fiscal years 2016 and 2017 containing background information for the agency summaries of requests by various criteria, and supporting information.

Texas Ethics Commission form for financial information from candidate/officeholder campaigns.

Instructions for Form CEC, a Texas Ethics Commission form for County Executive Committee campaign finance reporting.

Campaign finance reporting forms for County Executive Committee elections.

This is the State of Texas form for campaign finance reporting. The Texas Ethics Commission requires applicants to submit contact information, committee activity, political contributions, expenditures, interest earned, gains, travel, and affidavit of dissolution.

This is the instruction guide for the General-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report. The guide provides general instructions such as electronic filing, how to fill out forms, Ethics Commission guides, photocopying forms, and filing dates. Instructions also cover schedule A,B,C-1,C-2,D,E,F,I,J,K,and T.

Texas Ethics Commission form for financial information from Judicial Candidate/Officeholder campaigns.