21st Century U.S. Energy Sources: A Primer (open access)

21st Century U.S. Energy Sources: A Primer

This report provides an overview of U.S. energy issues, and suggests related information, data, and CRS contacts. It is mainly organized around the major fuels and energy sources: resources on federal lands, oil, natural gas, electric, coal, nuclear power, and renewable energy.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Ratner, Michael; Bracmort, Kelsi; Brown, Phillip; Campbell, Richard J.; Holt, Mark; Humphries, Marc et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The DOD's JEDI Cloud Program (open access)

The DOD's JEDI Cloud Program

This report discusses the Deputy Secretary of Defense (DSD) Patrick Shanahan's memorandum calling for the accelerated adoption of a Department of Defense (DOD)-wide cloud computing system. Under the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud program, DOD seeks to "acquire a...cloud services solution that can support Unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret requirements," with a focus on commercially-available services.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Peters, Heidi M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Funding for EPA Water Infrastructure: A Fact Sheet (open access)

Funding for EPA Water Infrastructure: A Fact Sheet

This report provides a table showing budget requests and appropriations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) water infrastructure assistance programs since 1973.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Ramseur, Jonathan L. & Tiemann, Mary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guide to Individuals Seated on the House Dais (open access)

Guide to Individuals Seated on the House Dais

This report outlines the members of the House of Representatives who are seated on the dais during meetings in the House chamber of the Capitol.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guide to Individuals Seated on the Senate Dais (open access)

Guide to Individuals Seated on the Senate Dais

This report outlines the members of the Senate who are seated on the dais during meetings in the Senate chamber of the Capitol.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections (open access)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections

This report provides data on current Latin American and Caribbean leaders and the date of their last election as well as the next scheduled election.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: DeBruyne, Nese F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methane and Other Air Pollution Issues in Natural Gas Systems (open access)

Methane and Other Air Pollution Issues in Natural Gas Systems

This report provides information on the natural gas industry and the types of air pollutants in the sector, as well as the role of the federal government in regulating these emissions, such as provisions in the Clean Air Act and other statutes. It concludes with a brief discussion of a number of issues under debate, including 1) defining the roles of industry and local, state, and federal governments; 2) establishing comprehensive emissions data; 3) determining the proper control of pollutants and sources; 4) understanding the human health and environmental impacts of emissions; and 5) estimating the costs of pollution abatement.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Lattanzio, Richard K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Party Leaders in the House: Election, Duties, and Responsibilities (open access)

Party Leaders in the House: Election, Duties, and Responsibilities

This report summarizes the election, duties, and responsibilities of the Speaker of the House, the majority and minority leaders, and the whips and whip system.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Disability Under the Twenty-fifth Amendment: Constitutional Provisions and Perspectives for Congress (open access)

Presidential Disability Under the Twenty-fifth Amendment: Constitutional Provisions and Perspectives for Congress

This report provides a description and analysis of Sections 3 and 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which deal with presidential disability or inability. It also reviews the history of presidential disability and earlier proposals to provide for such contingencies, provides a legislative history of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment and examines relevant legislative proposals pending in the 115th Congress.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Neale, Thomas H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Medical Board Annual Financial Report: 2018 (open access)

Texas Medical Board Annual Financial Report: 2018

Annual financial report of the Texas Medical Board documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2018
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Texas Medical Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission: First Report to Congress and the White House (open access)

Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission: First Report to Congress and the White House

Report from the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission providing a brief overview of the start of women's suffrage, the establishment and charge of the Commission, and biographical information for each of the fourteen commissioners.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: United States. Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agency Delay: Congressional and Judicial Means to Expedite Agency Rulemaking (open access)

Agency Delay: Congressional and Judicial Means to Expedite Agency Rulemaking

This report outlines the various tools that Congress can use to encourage agencies to act within a particular time frame. It then analyzes how those tools inform judicial analysis of challenges to agency actions as "unreasonably delayed" or "unlawfully withheld" under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and provides concluding remarks..
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Hickey, Kevin J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (open access)

Agricultural Provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement

This report discusses the agricultural provisions of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Hopkinson, Jenny
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do Courts Have Inherent Authority to Release Secret Grand Jury Materials? (open access)

Do Courts Have Inherent Authority to Release Secret Grand Jury Materials?

This report discusses the issue of releasing secret grand jury material. Although a long-established principle that has been deemed essential to the grand jury's functioning and independence is that matters occurring before it are to be kept secret, the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) establishes exceptions.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Foster, Michael A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lebanon (open access)

Lebanon

This report provides an overview of Lebanon and current issues of U.S. interest. It provides background information, analyzes recent developments and key policy debates, and tracks legislation, U.S. assistance, and recent congressional action
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Humud, Carla E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) Risk Adjustment Program: Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) Risk Adjustment Program: Frequently Asked Questions

This report provides responses to some frequently-asked questions (FAQs) about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) risk adjustment program. It includes background on the health insurance market, discusses why risk mitigation matters, and introduces the role of risk adjustment in risk mitigation. The report also describes the mechanics of the program and concludes with questions regarding the program's experience thus far and future changes to the program.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Kehres, Katherine M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Trade Agreement (open access)

Proposed U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Trade Agreement

This report discusses the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which is to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Topics include market access, dispute settlement, intellectual property rights (IPR), energy, and labor and environment.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Fergusson, Ian F. & Villarreal, M. Angeles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russian Compliance with the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Russian Compliance with the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty: Background and Issues for Congress

This report describes the current status of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and highlights issues that Congress may address as the United States pursues its compliance concerns with Russia. It starts with a historical overview and provides summaries of the provisions of the INF Treaty, Russia's concerns, and options that the United States has under the agreement, as well as a discussion of a potential Russian violation regarding development of a non-compliant missle.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spain and Its Relations with the United States: In Brief (open access)

Spain and Its Relations with the United States: In Brief

This report discusses relations between the U.S. and Spain and includes information on partnerships in counter-terrorism and military matters, economic ties, and political issues in Spain. It also provides an overview of the Catalan independence crisis and U.S. and EU views on the matter.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statutory Canon Aimed at International Organization Immunity (open access)

Statutory Canon Aimed at International Organization Immunity

This report discusses the upcoming Supreme Court case Jam v. International Finance Corp. The petitioners--a group of Indian nationals from Gujarat--seek to hold International Finance Corp. (IFC) liable for extensive environmental damage throughout their community caused by the construction of a power plant financed and overseen by IFC. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (D.C. Circuit) dismissed their lawsuit, holding, in accordance with the circuit's precedent, that the International Organizations Immunities Act (IOIA) grants absolute immunity to IFC in this case.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Military Value Task Force 2018 Strategic Report (open access)

Texas Military Value Task Force 2018 Strategic Report

Report by the Texas Military Value Task Force describing an evaluation of military installations in Texas and recommendations based on their work to "seek advice to prepare for possible actions by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) by identifying strategies, policies, plans, projects and other ways to improve or add military value installations" (p. 4).
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Texas Military Department
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 40, Pages 6503-6696, October 5, 2018 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 40, Pages 6503-6696, October 5, 2018

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trade Related Agencies: FY2019 Appropriations, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) (open access)

Trade Related Agencies: FY2019 Appropriations, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS)

This report provides an overview of the FY2019 budget request and appropriations for the International Trade Administration (ITA), the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), and the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). These three trade-related agencies are funded through the annual Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) appropriations act. This report also provides a review of these agencies' trade-related programs.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Hammond, Keigh E. & Villarreal, M. Angeles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Georgia: Background and U.S. Policy (open access)

Georgia: Background and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the politics and economy of the nation of Georgia, as well as their relations with the European Union, NATO, Russia, separatist regions, and the United States.
Date: September 5, 2018
Creator: Welt, Cory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library