Criminal Procedure: Brief Summaries of Major Decisions of the "Warren Court" Relating to the Rights of Persons Accused of Crime (open access)

Criminal Procedure: Brief Summaries of Major Decisions of the "Warren Court" Relating to the Rights of Persons Accused of Crime

This report discusses Supreme Court decisions made during the tenure of Earl Warren as Chief Justice from 1953 to 1969 related to criminal procedure and the rights of the accused.
Date: August 22, 1969
Creator: Hutton, E. Jeremy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Major Legislation Affecting Older Americans from 1960 Through 1969 (open access)

Major Legislation Affecting Older Americans from 1960 Through 1969

This report discusses major legislation affecting older Americans that was passed from 1960 to 1969.
Date: October 22, 1969
Creator: Howard, Evelyn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussions of the Health Care System in America: A Selected Bibliography (open access)

Discussions of the Health Care System in America: A Selected Bibliography

This report provides a bibliography of resources related to the health care system in the United States
Date: July 22, 1970
Creator: Cavalier, Kathleen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Pollution: Legislation and Programs in the Areas of Water and Air Pollution and Solid Waste Management (open access)

Environmental Pollution: Legislation and Programs in the Areas of Water and Air Pollution and Solid Waste Management

This report discusses past and current legislation related to air and water pollution as well as solid waste management.
Date: May 22, 1970
Creator: Wellman, John Douglas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expiring Unemployment Insurance Provisions (open access)

Expiring Unemployment Insurance Provisions

This report discusses several key provisions related to extended federal unemployment benefits that are temporary and, therefore, scheduled to expire. This report describes the consequences of these expirations for the financing and availability of unemployment benefits in states. It also summarizes the last three laws that have extended these expiring provisions: P.L. 112-240, P.L. 112-96, and P.L. 112-78.
Date: November 22, 2013
Creator: Isaacs, K. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Actions to Repeal, Defund, or Delay the Affordable Care Act (open access)

Legislative Actions to Repeal, Defund, or Delay the Affordable Care Act

This report summarizes legislative and other actions taken to repeal, defund, or delay the Affordable Care Act (ACA), since the law's enactment. The information is presented in four appendixes.
Date: November 22, 2013
Creator: Redhead, C. S. & Kinzer, Janet
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The International Whaling Convention (IWC) and Legal Issues Related to Aboriginal Rights (open access)

The International Whaling Convention (IWC) and Legal Issues Related to Aboriginal Rights

This report discusses the recent legislation regarding whaling in general, and aboriginal whaling in particular. Legislative measures, primarily in the form of concurrent resolutions, have been proposed in four categories: protesting commercial, scientific, or community (nonaboriginal) whaling; ensuring aboriginal whaling rights; providing a tax break for aboriginal whaling captains; and addressing the United States' policy at the annual meetings of the IWC.
Date: July 22, 2013
Creator: Alexander, Kristina
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Background, Funding, and Activities (open access)

The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Background, Funding, and Activities

This report discusses the federal government's role in the country's information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) activities. The government's support of IT R&D began because it had an important interest in creating computers and software that would be capable of addressing the problems and issues the government needed to solve and study.
Date: October 22, 2013
Creator: Figliola, Patricia Moloney
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues (open access)

U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues

This report reviews the ongoing programs that will affect the expected size and shape of the U.S. strategic nuclear force structure. It begins with an overview of this force structure during the Cold War, and summarizes the reductions and changes that have occurred since 1991. It then offers details about each category of delivery vehicle--land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and heavy bombers--focusing on their current deployments and ongoing and planned modernization programs. The report concludes with a discussion of issues related to decisions about the future size and shape of the U.S. strategic nuclear force.
Date: October 22, 2013
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background and Issues for Congress

Report that provides background information and potential issues for Congress on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).
Date: July 22, 2013
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Surplus Equipment Disposal: Background Information (open access)

Defense Surplus Equipment Disposal: Background Information

This report discusses the Department of Defense (DOD) policy via the Defense Utilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for disposing of government equipment and supplies considered surplus or deemed unnecessary to the agency's currently designated mission. The report focuses on DRMS background, as well as the most recent DRMS policy modifications.
Date: August 22, 2013
Creator: Bailey Grasso, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political Transition in Tunisia (open access)

Political Transition in Tunisia

Report that discusses Tunisia's pro-democracy movement; concerns over potential instability in a previously secure, pro-Western area; and U.S.-Tunisian relations.
Date: May 22, 2013
Creator: Arieff, Alexis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Crime Victims Fund: Federal Support for Victims of Crime (open access)

The Crime Victims Fund: Federal Support for Victims of Crime

Report that provides background and funding information for Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) programs and the Crime Victims Fund (CVF). It describes the process through which CVF funds are allocated and explains how the CVF impacts the annual budget for Department of Justice (DOJ).
Date: August 22, 2012
Creator: Sacco, Lisa N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) (open access)

Analysis of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)

Report that outlines the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and the current Renewable Identification Numbers (RIN) system, discusses the current market for various RINs, and outlines policy considerations to address RIN fraud going forward.
Date: July 22, 2013
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individual Mandate and Related Information Requirements under ACA (open access)

Individual Mandate and Related Information Requirements under ACA

Report that describes the individual mandate under Section 1501 and Section 10106 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, P.L. 111-148, as amended).
Date: July 22, 2013
Creator: Mach, Annie L.; Scales, Manon & Mulvey, Janemarie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA): Policies, Programs, and Funding (open access)

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA): Policies, Programs, and Funding

Report on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which is an agency of the Department of Commerce set up to advise on domestic and international telecommunications and information policies.
Date: October 22, 2012
Creator: Moore, Linda K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Delay in Implementation of Potential Employer Penalties Under ACA (open access)

Delay in Implementation of Potential Employer Penalties Under ACA

The report provides background information regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It discusses the implications for Premium Credit Eligibility and Individual Mandate.
Date: July 22, 2013
Creator: Mulvey, Janemarie; Fernandez, Bernadette & Mach, Annie L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydraulic Fracturing: Selected Legal Issues (open access)

Hydraulic Fracturing: Selected Legal Issues

This report focuses on selected legal issues related to the use of hydraulic fracturing. It examines some of the requirements for hydraulic fracturing contained in major federal environmental laws. It also provides an overview of issues involving state preemption of local zoning authority, as well as state tort law.
Date: October 22, 2013
Creator: Vann, Adam; Murrill, Brandon J. & Tiemann, Mary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Disclosure by Federal Officials and Publication of Disclosure Reports (open access)

Financial Disclosure by Federal Officials and Publication of Disclosure Reports

This report discusses the information disclosure by high-level officials in all three branches of the federal government.
Date: August 22, 2013
Creator: Maskell, Jack
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Country-of-Origin Labeling for Foods and the WTO Trade Dispute on Meat Labeling (open access)

Country-of-Origin Labeling for Foods and the WTO Trade Dispute on Meat Labeling

Report that covers the dispute between the U.S with its neighbors Canada and Mexico, who say that the recent country-of-origin labeling (COOL) system implemented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is unfair and does not meet its original objectives.
Date: July 22, 2013
Creator: Jurenas, Remy & Greene, Joel L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, August 22, 2005, Part 1] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, August 22, 2005, Part 1]

First part of a memorandum of meeting with National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGIA) representatives regarding DoD Recommendation #168.
Date: August 22, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letters from Jim Gammon and Joe Thomas to the BRAC] (open access)

[Letters from Jim Gammon and Joe Thomas to the BRAC]

Letters from Jim Gammon and Joe Thomas to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. The two men state that they are in opposition to the recommendation that Cannon Air Force Base be closed.
Date: August 22, 2005
Creator: Gammon, James (Jim) & Thomas, Joseph (Joe)
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Thelma Nelson to the BRAC - June 22, 2005] (open access)

[Letter from Thelma Nelson to the BRAC - June 22, 2005]

Letter from Thelma Nelson in response to the BRAC recommendation that Red River Army Depot be closed. She argues against closure, saying that it would put 4,000 people into economic hardship and remove support protection from soldiers in Iraq.
Date: June 22, 2005
Creator: Nelson, Thelma
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, July 22, 2005] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, July 22, 2005]

Memorandum of Meeting with Rock Island Arsenal community representatives regarding recommendations for Rock Island Arsenal located in the Quad Cities between Illinois and Iowa.
Date: July 22, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library