Clean Water Act: A Summary of the Law (open access)

Clean Water Act: A Summary of the Law

This report presents a summary of the law, the Clean Water Act, describing the statute without discussing its implementation.
Date: October 30, 2014
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
System: The UNT Digital Library
WTO Disciplines of Domestic Support for Agriculture (open access)

WTO Disciplines of Domestic Support for Agriculture

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Date: October 22, 2014
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
QRM: Risk Retention and the Mortgage Market (open access)

QRM: Risk Retention and the Mortgage Market

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Date: October 30, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Veterans’ Medical Care: FY2015 Appropriations (open access)

Veterans’ Medical Care: FY2015 Appropriations

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Date: October 9, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Protests in Hong Kong: The Umbrella Movement (open access)

Protests in Hong Kong: The Umbrella Movement

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Date: October 24, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heritage Areas: Background, Proposals, and Current Issues (open access)

Heritage Areas: Background, Proposals, and Current Issues

This report focuses on heritage areas designated by Congress and related issues and legislation.
Date: October 30, 2014
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy & Comay, Laura B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public Health Service Agencies: Overview and Funding (open access)

Public Health Service Agencies: Overview and Funding

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Date: October 8, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Background and Issues for Congressional Oversight of ARRA Broadband Awards (open access)

Background and Issues for Congressional Oversight of ARRA Broadband Awards

This report discusses background and issues for congressional oversight of ARRA Broadband Awards.
Date: October 29, 2014
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mali: Current Issues (open access)

Mali: Current Issues

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Date: October 3, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aiding, Abetting, and the Like: An Abbreviated Overview of 18 U.S.C. 2 (open access)

Aiding, Abetting, and the Like: An Abbreviated Overview of 18 U.S.C. 2

This report discuses the issues that virtually every federal criminal statute has a hidden feature; helpers and hands-on offenders face the same punishment. This results from 18 U.S.C. 2, which visits the same consequences on anyone who orders or assists in the commission of a federal crime.
Date: October 24, 2014
Creator: Doyle, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC): Legislation in the 113th Congress (open access)

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC): Legislation in the 113th Congress

The earned income tax credit is a refundable tax credit available to eligible workers earning relatively low wages. Under current law, the earned income tax credit is calculated based on a recipient's earnings, using one of eight different formulas, which vary depending on several factors, including the number of qualifying children a tax filer has and their marital status. This report discusses and analyzes legislative proposals introduced in the 113th Congress that propose modifying the earned income tax credit.
Date: October 31, 2014
Creator: Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Foreign Assistance (open access)

U.S. Foreign Assistance

This report provides a brief summary introducing key fundamentals to acquiring foreign assistance from the U.S.
Date: October 22, 2014
Creator: Lawson, Marian L. & Tarnoff, Curt
System: The UNT Digital Library
WTO Doha Round: Implications for U.S. Agriculture (open access)

WTO Doha Round: Implications for U.S. Agriculture

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Date: October 10, 2014
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Welfare: Funding for Child and Family Services Authorized Under Title IV-B of the Social Security Act (open access)

Child Welfare: Funding for Child and Family Services Authorized Under Title IV-B of the Social Security Act

This report provides information about the Funding for Child and Family Services Authorized Under Title IV-B of the Social Security Act for child welfare.
Date: October 29, 2014
Creator: Stoltzfus, Emilie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Railroad Retirement Board: Retirement, Survivor, Disability, Unemployment, and Sickness Benefits (open access)

Railroad Retirement Board: Retirement, Survivor, Disability, Unemployment, and Sickness Benefits

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Date: October 14, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit: In Brief (open access)

The Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit: In Brief

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Date: October 2, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) (open access)

Proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)

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Date: October 16, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Defense Production Act of 1950: History, Authorities, and Considerations for Congress (open access)

The Defense Production Act of 1950: History, Authorities, and Considerations for Congress

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Date: October 23, 2014
Creator: Brown, Jared T. & Else, Daniel H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Monuments and the Antiquities Act (open access)

National Monuments and the Antiquities Act

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Date: October 21, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Infrastructure Projects Designated in EPA Appropriations: Trends and Policy Implications (open access)

Water Infrastructure Projects Designated in EPA Appropriations: Trends and Policy Implications

This report discusses appropriations for water infrastructure programs of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), focusing on such designations in the account that funds these programs. Information on the programmatic history of EPA involvement in assisting wastewater treatment and drinking water projects is provided in two appendixes.
Date: October 30, 2014
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Dairy Programs After the 2014 Farm Bill (P.L. 113-79) (open access)

U.S. Dairy Programs After the 2014 Farm Bill (P.L. 113-79)

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Date: October 30, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
State CO2 Emission Rate Goals in EPA’s Proposed Rule for Existing Power Plants (open access)

State CO2 Emission Rate Goals in EPA’s Proposed Rule for Existing Power Plants

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Date: October 22, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drought Policy, Response, and Preparedness (open access)

Drought Policy, Response, and Preparedness

This report examines the various ways Congress and other federal, state, and local policymakers are considering to prepare for and respond to drought; how to coordinate actions and assign responsibilities; and who bears the costs of impacts, disaster response, and long-term adjustment to drought.
Date: October 27, 2014
Creator: Carter, Nicole T. & Cody, Betsy A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Home Is Where They Have To Take You In: Right to Entry For U.S. Citizens (open access)

Home Is Where They Have To Take You In: Right to Entry For U.S. Citizens

This legal sidebar discusses the Congressional interest to revoke passports of U.S. citizens who have gone abroad to fight for foreign terrorist groups. This issue derived from the concern about preventing such persons from returning to conduct terrorist activities in the U.S.
Date: October 16, 2014
Creator: Lee, Margaret Mikyung
System: The UNT Digital Library