Spectrum Management: Auctions (open access)

Spectrum Management: Auctions

This report discusses the radio frequency spectrum that is used for all forms of wireless communications, including cellular telephony, paging, personal communications service, radio and television broadcast, telephone radio relay, aeronautical and maritime radio navigation, and satellite command and control. The issues discussed here refer principally to spectrum management for terrestrial technologies.
Date: July 19, 2007
Creator: Moore, Linda K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (open access)

Proposed U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement

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Date: July 19, 2006
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communications Act Revisions: Selected Issues for Consideration (open access)

Communications Act Revisions: Selected Issues for Consideration

This report provides an overview of selected topics which the 109th Congress may address in its examination of telecommunication issue.
Date: July 19, 2006
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stem Cell Research: Ethical Issues (open access)

Stem Cell Research: Ethical Issues

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Date: July 19, 2006
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Affirmative Action: Justice O'Connor's Opinions (open access)

Affirmative Action: Justice O'Connor's Opinions

This report briefly surveys decisions of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in affirmative action cases, an area where her opinions have frequently determined the outcome. An examination of Justice O'Connor's opinions reveals a gradual shift in perspective regarding the legal and constitutional standards to be applied in evaluating governmental affirmative action efforts, and the manner of their application in various legal and factual settings.
Date: July 19, 2005
Creator: Dale, Charles V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hearings in the U.S. Senate: A Guide for Preparation and Procedure (open access)

Hearings in the U.S. Senate: A Guide for Preparation and Procedure

This report discusses hearings in the U.S. Senate and is divided into four main sections: (1) the role of hearings in the committee process, types of hearings, and broad organizational issues, (2) a discussion of the planning process, (3) how a hearing is held, and (4) activities committees often undertake following a hearing.
Date: July 19, 2004
Creator: Sachs, Richard C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federalism Jurisprudence: The Opinions of Justice O'Connor (open access)

Federalism Jurisprudence: The Opinions of Justice O'Connor

This report examines the opinions of Justice O'Connor related to limits on federal power. In majority opinions regarding the Tenth Amendment, sovereign immunity, and the power of Congress under the 14th Amendment, she has emphasized the dictates of the Founding Fathers and noted the policies underlying federalism such as the promotion of state accountability.
Date: July 19, 2005
Creator: Thomas, Kenneth R. & Tatelman, Todd B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kosovo's Future Status and U.S. Policy (open access)

Kosovo's Future Status and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the issue of Kosovo's future status; that is, whether it should become an independent country, or have some form of autonomy within Serbia.
Date: July 19, 2005
Creator: Woehrel, Steven
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance

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.
Date: July 19, 2007
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center: Issues for Congress (open access)

The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center: Issues for Congress

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Date: July 19, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Missile Defense: The Current Debate (open access)

Missile Defense: The Current Debate

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Date: July 19, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Mining and Homeland Security: An Overview (open access)

Data Mining and Homeland Security: An Overview

This report provides information about the Data Mining and Homeland Security. Data mining has become one of the key features of the homeland security initiatives. Data mining can be a potential means to identify terrorist activities such as money transfer etc.
Date: July 19, 2007
Creator: Seifert, Jeffrey W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Kaesong North-South Korean Industrial Complex (open access)

The Kaesong North-South Korean Industrial Complex

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Date: July 19, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interstate Shipment of Municipal Solid Waste: 2001 Update (open access)

Interstate Shipment of Municipal Solid Waste: 2001 Update

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Date: July 19, 2001
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Confrontation Clause Reshaped: Crawford v. Washington (open access)

Confrontation Clause Reshaped: Crawford v. Washington

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Date: July 19, 2004
Creator: Velez Pollack, Estela I.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formulation of Monetary Policy by the Federal Reserve: Rules vs. Discretion (open access)

Formulation of Monetary Policy by the Federal Reserve: Rules vs. Discretion

This report explores the historical evolution of policy rules and the arguments employed for and against a rule-based policy regime.
Date: July 19, 2001
Creator: Labonte, Marc
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expiration of the 2001 Through 2006 Tax Cuts (open access)

Expiration of the 2001 Through 2006 Tax Cuts

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Date: July 19, 2007
Creator: Esenwein, Gregg A. & Shvedov, Maxim
System: The UNT Digital Library
Veterans’ Benefits: Issues in the 110th Congress (open access)

Veterans’ Benefits: Issues in the 110th Congress

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Date: July 19, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hearings in the U.S. Senate: A Guide for Preparation and Procedure (open access)

Hearings in the U.S. Senate: A Guide for Preparation and Procedure

This report contains a guide for preparation and procedure on the Hearings in the U.S. Senate.
Date: July 19, 2004
Creator: Sachs, Richard C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues (open access)

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues

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Date: July 19, 2007
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions in the “Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001” (open access)

Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions in the “Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001”

This report describes and analyzes three provisions included in P.L. 107-16. Two of the three provisions will likely induce more tax-exempt bond financing for public school capital investment through loosening arbitrage bond rules for some issuers and expanding the list of otherwise private facilities that are still eligible for tax-exempt financing. The third provision, lower marginal tax rates, will decrease the demand for tax-exempt bonds.
Date: July 19, 2001
Creator: Maguire, Steve
System: The UNT Digital Library
Item Veto and Expanded Impoundment Proposals (open access)

Item Veto and Expanded Impoundment Proposals

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Date: July 19, 2006
Creator: McMurty, Virginia A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy DDG-1000 (DD(X)) and CG(X) Programs: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy DDG-1000 (DD(X)) and CG(X) Programs: Background and Issues for Congress

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Date: July 19, 2006
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Protection for Human Research Subjects: An Analysis of the Common Rule and Its Interactions with FDA Regulations and the HIPAA Privacy Rule (open access)

Federal Protection for Human Research Subjects: An Analysis of the Common Rule and Its Interactions with FDA Regulations and the HIPAA Privacy Rule

This report is analysis of the common rule and its interactions with FDA regulations and the HIPAA privacy rule for the federal protection for human research subjects.
Date: July 19, 2005
Creator: Williams, Erin D.
System: The UNT Digital Library