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Mount Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2013 (open access)

Mount Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Mount Vernon, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 2, 2013
Creator: Bush-Reves, Lillie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Law Enforcement Access to Overseas Data Under the CLOUD Act (open access)

Law Enforcement Access to Overseas Data Under the CLOUD Act

This report discusses the CLOUD Act recently passed by Congress which gives the U.S. government's the ability to force companies to disclose information stored on overseas servers that is covered under a warrant and updates the reciprocal agreements with other countries accessing data as a part of criminal investigations that is held in the United States. Legal commentary on the law is provided.
Date: May 2, 2018
Creator: Mulligan, Stephen P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Travel Ban Case and Nationwide Injunctions (open access)

The Travel Ban Case and Nationwide Injunctions

This report addresses when, if ever, a regional federal trial judge adjudicating a case involving the federal government can award nationwide injunctive relief--a court order that commands a party to take or refrain from taking some action throughout the country. In the context of a suit against the federal government, an injunction with this type of "universal" effect acts to effectively void the law or policy in question. This report briefly explores the nationwide injunction at issue in the travel ban case (Trump v. Hawaii) and surveys a handful of the scholarly and judicial arguments surrounding the nationwide injunction in general
Date: May 2, 2018
Creator: Freeman, Wilson C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm Bill Programs Without a Budget Baseline Beyond FY2018 (open access)

Farm Bill Programs Without a Budget Baseline Beyond FY2018

This report discusses programs under the Farm Bill that do not have guaranteed future funding known as "baseline" funding beyond FY2018.
Date: May 2, 2018
Creator: Monke, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
President Obama's First-Term U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominations: An Analysis and Comparison with Presidents Since Reagan (open access)

President Obama's First-Term U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominations: An Analysis and Comparison with Presidents Since Reagan

This report seeks to inform the current debate in three ways: first, by providing a statistical analysis of President Barack Obama's nominees, during his first term, to U.S. circuit court of appeals and U.S. district court judgeships, and of any actions taken on their nominations by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate; second, by using various statistical measures to compare the success of President Obama's judicial nominees, during his first term, in advancing through the Senate confirmation process with the success of the judicial nominees during the first terms of the four most recent preceding Presidents (Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush); and third, by identifying various factors which might help explain differences or variations found in judicial nomination statistics across the first terms of the five Presidents.
Date: May 2, 2013
Creator: McMillion, Barry J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Branch: FY2013 Appropriations (open access)

Legislative Branch: FY2013 Appropriations

This report discusses the legislative branch appropriations bill that provides funding for the Senate; House of Representatives; Joint Items; Capitol Police; Office of Compliance; Congressional Budget Office (CBO); Architect of the Capitol (AOC); Library of Congress, including the Congressional Research Service (CRS); Government Printing Office (GPO); Government Accountability Office (GAO); and Open World Leadership Center.
Date: May 2, 2013
Creator: Brudnick, Ida A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extending Unemployment Compensation Benefits During Recessions (open access)

Extending Unemployment Compensation Benefits During Recessions

This report describes the history of temporary federal extensions to unemployment benefits from 1980 to the present. It has five sections which discuss: [1] background information on unemployment compensation (UC) benefits, [2] a definition of a recession and the process of declaring a recession, [3] a summary of the legislative history of federal extensions of unemployment benefits, [4] figures examining the statistics of recessions, and [5] previous methods for financing temporary recession programs.
Date: May 2, 2013
Creator: Whittaker, Julie M. & Isaacs, Katelin P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The FY2014 State and Foreign Operations Budget Request (open access)

The FY2014 State and Foreign Operations Budget Request

This report provides a brief overview of the FY2014 State Department, Foreign Operations and Related Programs funding request.
Date: May 2, 2013
Creator: Epstein, Susan B.; Lawson, Marian L. & Tiersky, Alex
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improvements for operational baseband tune and coupling measurements and feedback at RHIC (open access)

Improvements for operational baseband tune and coupling measurements and feedback at RHIC

Throughout RHIC Run-9 (polarized protons) and Run-10 (gold), numerous modifications to the Baseband Tune (BBQ) system were made. Hardware and software improvements resulted in improved resolution and control, allowing the system to overcome challenges from competing 60Hz mains harmonics, other spectral content, and other beam issues. Test points from the Analog Front End (AFE) were added and connected to diagnostics that allow us to view signals, such as frequency spectra on a Sr785 dynamic signal analyser (DSA), in real time. Also, additional data can now be logged using a National Instruments DAQ (NI-DAQ). Development time using tune feedback to obtain full-energy beams at RHIC has been significantly reduced from many ramps over a few weeks, to just a few ramps over several hours. For many years BBQ was an expert-only system, but the many improvements allowed BBQ to finally be handed over to the Operations Staff for routine control.
Date: May 2, 2010
Creator: Wilinski, M.; Dawson, C.; Degen, C.; Marusic, A.; Mernick, K.; Minty, M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revitalizing Coastal Shipping for Domestic Commerce (open access)

Revitalizing Coastal Shipping for Domestic Commerce

This report examines recent trends in waterborne freight movement within the United States and offers policy options that might strengthen the competitive position of coastal and Great Lakes shipping in the face of robust demand for freight transportation.
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Frittelli, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee Types and Roles (open access)

Committee Types and Roles

This report outlines the types of committees that are present in Congress as well as their structures and roles.
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Frequently Asked Questions About Prescription Drug Pricing and Policy (open access)

Frequently Asked Questions About Prescription Drug Pricing and Policy

This report will address frequently asked questions about government and private-sector policies that affect drug prices and availability. Among the prescription drug topics covered are federally funded research and development, regulation of direct-to-consumer advertising, legal restrictions on reimportation, and federal price negotiation. The report provides a broad overview of the issues as well as references to more in-depth CRS products. The appendixes provide references to relevant congressional hearings and documents (see Appendix A) and a directory of CRS prescription drug experts (see Appendix B).
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Kirchhoff, Suzanne M.; Johnson, Judith A. & Thaul, Susan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Office of the Parliamentarian in the House and Sebate (open access)

The Office of the Parliamentarian in the House and Sebate

This report discusses the role of the parliamentarian in the House and Senate. The parliamentarian's job is provide advice to members of Congress on the workings of House and Senate rules.
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
How to Develop and Write a Grant Proposal (open access)

How to Develop and Write a Grant Proposal

This report is intended for Members and staff assisting grant seekers in districts and states and covers writing proposals for both government and private foundation grants. In preparation for writing a proposal, the report first discusses preliminary information gathering and preparation, developing ideas for the proposal, gathering community support, identifying funding resources, and seeking preliminary review of the proposal and support of relevant administrative officials. The second section of the report covers the actual writing of the proposal, from outlining of project goals, stating the purpose and objectives of the proposal, explaining the program methods to solve the stated problem, and how the results of the project will be evaluated, to long-term project planning, and, finally, developing the proposal budget. The last section of the report provides a listing of free grants-writing websites, including guidelines from the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance and the Foundation Center's "Proposal Writing Short Course."
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Jennings, Julie & Kreiser, Maria A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade Implications of the President's Buy American Executive Order (open access)

Trade Implications of the President's Buy American Executive Order

This report discusses President Trump's April 18, 2017 Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American and its implications for U.S. trade agreements and government procurement costs.
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Fefer, Rachel F. & Fergusson, Ian F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Points of Order, Rulings, and Appeals in the House of Representatives (open access)

Points of Order, Rulings, and Appeals in the House of Representatives

This report discusses points of order in the House of Representatives and how they are enforced.
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Time-Resolved Soft X-Ray Spectra From Laser-Produced Cu Plasma (open access)

Time-Resolved Soft X-Ray Spectra From Laser-Produced Cu Plasma

The volumetric heating of a thin copper target has been studied with time resolved x-ray spectroscopy. The copper target was heated from a plasma produced using the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Compact Multipulse Terrawatt (COMET) laser. A variable spaced grating spectrometer coupled to an x-ray streak camera measured soft x-ray emission (800-1550 eV) from the back of the copper target to characterize the bulk heating of the target. Radiation hydrodynamic simulations were modeled in 2-dimensions using the HYDRA code. The target conditions calculated by HYDRA were post-processed with the atomic kinetics code CRETIN to generate synthetic emission spectra. A comparison between the experimental and simulated spectra indicates the presence of specific ionization states of copper and the corresponding electron temperatures and ion densities throughout the laser-heated copper target.
Date: May 2, 2012
Creator: Cone, K. V.; Dunn, J.; Baldis, H. A.; May, M. J.; Purvis, M. A.; Scott, H. A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
East Bernard Express (East Bernard, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2013 (open access)

East Bernard Express (East Bernard, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2013

Weekly newspaper from East Bernard, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 2, 2013
Creator: Wallace, Bill
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crowley Star (Crowley, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2013 (open access)

Crowley Star (Crowley, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Crowley, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 2, 2013
Creator: Hinton, Jay
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 88, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 2, 2017 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 88, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
From Slip Law to United States Code: A Guide to Federal Statutes for Congressional Staff (open access)

From Slip Law to United States Code: A Guide to Federal Statutes for Congressional Staff

This report provides an overview of federal statutes in their various forms, as well as basic guidance for congressional staff interested in researching statutes.
Date: May 2, 2018
Creator: Tarnay, Eva M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
What's Next, May 2012 (open access)

What's Next, May 2012

Graduation supplement to the North Texas Daily, a daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: May 2, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 091, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 2, 2012 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 091, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 2, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 145, Ed. 1 Monday, May 2, 2011 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 145, Ed. 1 Monday, May 2, 2011

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 2, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History