Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence (open access)

Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence

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Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Pell Grant Program of the Higher Education Act: Background, Recent Changes, and Current Legislative Issues (open access)

Federal Pell Grant Program of the Higher Education Act: Background, Recent Changes, and Current Legislative Issues

This report reviews how the program works and provides an analysis of recent program funding, recipients, and the role being played by the program in the distribution of federal student aid.
Date: February 25, 2011
Creator: Mahan, Shannon M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

This report discusses the current political state of Iran, focusing particularly on the influence of the Taliban and other militant groups and on the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. This report also discusses the U.S.-Iran relationship and U.S. efforts under the Obama Administration to provide military, reconstructive, and stabilization aid.
Date: July 25, 2011
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: The Trust Fund (open access)

Social Security: The Trust Fund

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Date: May 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Universal Service Fund: Background and Options for Reform (open access)

Universal Service Fund: Background and Options for Reform

This report contains the background and options for reform on the universal service fund.
Date: October 25, 2011
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid and CHIP Maintenance of Effort (MOE): Requirements and Responses (open access)

Medicaid and CHIP Maintenance of Effort (MOE): Requirements and Responses

This report summarizes the MOE requirements enacted under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as modified by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and what these requirements have meant for states in terms of their actions to restrict Medicaid and/or CHIP eligibility. It also summarizes recent legislative activity to repeal the MOE requirements.
Date: May 25, 2011
Creator: Baumrucker, Evelyne P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solar Projects: DOE Section 1705 Loan Guarantees (open access)

Solar Projects: DOE Section 1705 Loan Guarantees

This report discusses the solar energy initiative and the political implications. The objective of this report is to provide Congress with insight regarding solar projects supported by Department of Energy (DOE’s) loan guarantee program, the risk characteristics of these projects, and how other DOE loan guarantee projects are either similar to or different from the Solyndra solar manufacturing project.
Date: October 25, 2011
Creator: Brown, Phillip
System: The UNT Digital Library
Title X (Public Health Service Act) Family Planning Program (open access)

Title X (Public Health Service Act) Family Planning Program

This report discusses the Family Planning Program, Title X of the Public Health Service Act, through which the federal government provides grants for voluntary family planning services.
Date: March 25, 2011
Creator: Napili, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Nominating Process: Current Issues (open access)

Presidential Nominating Process: Current Issues

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Date: October 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contracting Programs for Alaska Native Corporations: Historical Development and Legal Authorities (open access)

Contracting Programs for Alaska Native Corporations: Historical Development and Legal Authorities

This report discusses historical development and legal authorities related to contracting programs for Alaska Native Corporations.
Date: March 25, 2011
Creator: Manuel, Kate M.; Luckey, John R. & Smith, Jane M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 112th Congress (open access)

Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 112th Congress

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Date: April 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The V-Chip and TV Ratings: Monitoring Children’s Access to TV Programming (open access)

The V-Chip and TV Ratings: Monitoring Children’s Access to TV Programming

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Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Natural Gas Passenger Vehicles: Availability, Cost, and Performance (open access)

Natural Gas Passenger Vehicles: Availability, Cost, and Performance

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Date: May 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
1099 Information Reporting Requirements and Penalties as Modified by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (open access)

1099 Information Reporting Requirements and Penalties as Modified by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010

This report discuses the 2010 expansion of reporting requirements listed in IRC (Internal Revenue Code) 6041. The controversy in these expansions lies in the burden the expansion imposes on small businesses. The report also describes the pieces of legislation that have amended IRC 6041, and the implications of that legislation along with the consequences of IRC 6041.
Date: February 25, 2011
Creator: Pettit, Carol A. & Liu, Edward C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Alternative Minimum Tax for Individuals (open access)

The Alternative Minimum Tax for Individuals

This report consists of the alternative Minimum Tax for Individuals.
Date: January 25, 2011
Creator: Maguire, Steven
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financing Recovery After a Catastrophic Earthquake or Nuclear Power Incident (open access)

Financing Recovery After a Catastrophic Earthquake or Nuclear Power Incident

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Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: King, Rawle O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Libya: Transition and U.S. Policy (open access)

Libya: Transition and U.S. Policy

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Date: October 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program (open access)

Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program

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Date: July 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Meetings in Honolulu: A Preview (open access)

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Meetings in Honolulu: A Preview

This report contains a preview of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Honolulu.
Date: October 25, 2011
Creator: Martin, Michael F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate (open access)

Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate

This report discusses the current debate over "net neutrality." While there is no single accepted definition of "net neutrality," most agree that any such definition should include the general principles that owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the Internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network, and they should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network.
Date: October 25, 2011
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homestead Exemptions in Bankruptcy After the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) (open access)

Homestead Exemptions in Bankruptcy After the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA)

This report surveys the homestead exemption laws of the 50 states and the District of Columbia with an emphasis on the amount of the exemptions and the extent to which debtors may choose between federal and state exemptions.
Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: Pettit, Carol A. & Platte, Vastine D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program: An Overview (open access)

Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program: An Overview

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Date: April 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Murder or Attempted Murder of a Member of Congress and Other Federal Officials and Employees: Implications in Federal Criminal Law and Procedure of Events in Tucson (open access)

Murder or Attempted Murder of a Member of Congress and Other Federal Officials and Employees: Implications in Federal Criminal Law and Procedure of Events in Tucson

Report describing the federal procedures and attendant legal provisions generally associated with the prosecution of cases regarding the killing and attempted killing of federal officers and employees in the performance of their official duties.
Date: January 25, 2011
Creator: Doyle, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: History, Impact, and Issues (open access)

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: History, Impact, and Issues

Report that examines debates over what constitutes an unfunded federal mandate and the implementation of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) of 1995.
Date: January 25, 2011
Creator: Dilger, Robert Jay & Beth, Richard S.
System: The UNT Digital Library