The Advanced Technology Program (open access)

The Advanced Technology Program

This report presents perspectives on African economic trends and provides an overview of U.S. trade and investment flows with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It discusses the provisions of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and the changes that have occurred since its enactment. It concludes with a brief discussion of issues of congressional interest.
Date: February 16, 2007
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Peace Corps: Current Issues (open access)

The Peace Corps: Current Issues

None
Date: February 16, 2006
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arts and Humanities: Background on Funding (open access)

Arts and Humanities: Background on Funding

This report
Date: February 16, 2006
Creator: Boren, Susan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Facility Security: Regulation and Issues for Congress (open access)

Chemical Facility Security: Regulation and Issues for Congress

This report provides information about the Regulation and Issues for Congress in Chemical Facility Security. The proposed security regulations will preempt local and facility submission.
Date: February 16, 2007
Creator: Shea, Dana A. & Tatelman, Todd B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copyright Cases in the Courts: Napster, MP3 Digital Music, and DVD Motion Picture Encryption Technology (open access)

Copyright Cases in the Courts: Napster, MP3 Digital Music, and DVD Motion Picture Encryption Technology

This report discusses copyright cases in the courts, including Napster, MP3 digital music, and DVD motion picture.
Date: February 16, 2001
Creator: Jeweler, Robin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom: Questions and Answers About U.S. Military Personnel, Compensation, and Force Structure (open access)

Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom: Questions and Answers About U.S. Military Personnel, Compensation, and Force Structure

This report provides short answers to commonly asked questions about military personnel, compensation, and force structure issues related to Operation Noble Eagle (ONE), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Operation Noble Eagle is the name given to military operations related to homeland security and support to federal, state, and local agencies in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: Kapp, Lawrence
System: The UNT Digital Library
Morocco-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (open access)

Morocco-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

This report discusses the free trade agreement (FTA) between United States and Morocco. The United States and Morocco reached agreement on March 2, 2004 to create a free trade agreement.
Date: February 16, 2006
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education Tax Benefits: Are They Permanent or Temporary? (open access)

Education Tax Benefits: Are They Permanent or Temporary?

This report very briefly describes the education tax benefits available to individuals and highlights their permanent-versus-temporary features.
Date: February 16, 2007
Creator: Levine, Linda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fiscal Year 2005 Homeland Security Grant Program: State Allocations and Issues for Congressional Oversight (open access)

Fiscal Year 2005 Homeland Security Grant Program: State Allocations and Issues for Congressional Oversight

This report summarizes key provisions of the FY2005 program guidance, with special attention to differences from the FY2003 and FY2004 editions. This report also discusses issues regarding methods used to allocate federal homeland security assistance and authorized expenditures of homeland security assistance programs, and it analyzes options Congress may wish to consider for resolving those issues.
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: Reese, Shawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Gap and Tax Enforcement (open access)

Tax Gap and Tax Enforcement

This report defines tax gap concepts, explains the methodology used to calculate the tax gap, examines the relationship between the tax gap and enforcement, and briefly discusses the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS's) strategy to reduce the gross tax gap.
Date: February 16, 2007
Creator: Bickley, James M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korean Crime-for-Profit Activities (open access)

North Korean Crime-for-Profit Activities

None
Date: February 16, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Pell Grant Program of the Higher Education Act: Background and Reauthorization (open access)

Federal Pell Grant Program of the Higher Education Act: Background and Reauthorization

This report reviews how the program works and provides analysis of program funding, recipients (numbers and characteristics), and the role being played by the program in the distribution of federal student aid. It concludes with an examination of several Pell-related issues that may be considered by the Congress in the HEA reauthorization process.
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: Mercer, Charmaine
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Size and Role of Government: Economic Issues (open access)

The Size and Role of Government: Economic Issues

None
Date: February 16, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lebanon (open access)

Lebanon

This report includes information regarding the relationship between the United States and Lebanon, as well as Lebanon's political profile, and foreign presence in Lebanon
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spectrum Auctions and Deficit Reduction: FY2006 Budget Reconciliation (open access)

Spectrum Auctions and Deficit Reduction: FY2006 Budget Reconciliation

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Date: February 16, 2006
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Funding and Reauthorization (open access)

Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Funding and Reauthorization

This report contains a background information and the reauthorization of the Community Services Block Grants (CSBG).
Date: February 16, 2007
Creator: Spar, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historic Preservation: Federal Laws and Regulations Related to Hurricane Recovery and Reconstruction (open access)

Historic Preservation: Federal Laws and Regulations Related to Hurricane Recovery and Reconstruction

This report includes federal laws and regulations related to Hurricane Recovery and Reconstruction of Historic Preservation.
Date: February 16, 2006
Creator: Weimer, Douglas Reid
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bosnia and Kosovo: U.S. Military Operations (open access)

Bosnia and Kosovo: U.S. Military Operations

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Date: February 16, 2004
Creator: Bowman, Steve
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Standards and Sound Science: What Role for CASAC? (open access)

Air Quality Standards and Sound Science: What Role for CASAC?

This report discusses the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), which are standards that define what EPA considers to be clean air. Their importance stems from the long and complicated implementation process that is set in motion by their establishment.
Date: February 16, 2007
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Advisory System: Possible Issues for Congressional Oversight (open access)

Homeland Security Advisory System: Possible Issues for Congressional Oversight

This report provides information about the Possible Issues for Congressional Oversight on the Homeland Security Advisory System. The homeland security advisory system is a color-coded terrorist threat warning system administered by the DHS.
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: Reese, Shawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prevailing Wage Requirements and the Emergency Suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act (open access)

Prevailing Wage Requirements and the Emergency Suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act

None
Date: February 16, 2006
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
DOD’s National Security Personnel System: Provisions of Law and Implementation Plans (open access)

DOD’s National Security Personnel System: Provisions of Law and Implementation Plans

This report discusses each of the provisions in Title XI of P.L. 108-136 and plans to implement the law.
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: Schwemle, Barbara L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Current Funding Trends (open access)

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Current Funding Trends

This report provides an overview of the funding trends on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Date: February 16, 2006
Creator: Apling, Richard N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Coast Guard Operations — Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Homeland Security: Coast Guard Operations — Background and Issues for Congress

None
Date: February 16, 2006
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
System: The UNT Digital Library