Membership of the 108th Congress: A Profile (open access)

Membership of the 108th Congress: A Profile

This report presents a profile of the membership of the 108th Congress. Included is information on numbers of Members, party affiliation, average age and length of service, occupations, religious affiliation, military service, female and minority Members, and foreign-born Members.
Date: July 28, 2004
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2004 (open access)

Women in the United States Congress: 1917-2004

This report identifies the names, committee assignments, dates of service, and (for Representatives) districts of the 220 women Members of Congress.
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cybercrime: The Council of Europe Convention (open access)

Cybercrime: The Council of Europe Convention

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Date: July 22, 2004
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 3: Samples of interviews and Ethnographic Prefaces (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 3: Samples of interviews and Ethnographic Prefaces

This study is about the history and evolution of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana in an objective and comprehensive way.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Austin, Diane & McGuire, Tom
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Interim Report: Volume 1. Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Interim Report: Volume 1. Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry

An historical evaluation and documentation of the offshore oil and gas industry and its impact on the economy of Southern Louisiana from its inception in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Austin, Diane; Carriker, Bob; McGuire, Tom; Pratt, Joseph; Priest, Tyler & Pulsipher, Allan G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wisconsin Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized (open access)

Wisconsin Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized

This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of Wisconsin.
Date: July 2, 2004
Creator: Bea, Keith; Runyon, L. Cheryl & Warnock, Kae M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flat Tax Proposals and Fundamental Tax Reform: An Overview (open access)

Flat Tax Proposals and Fundamental Tax Reform: An Overview

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Date: July 16, 2004
Creator: Bickley, James M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Department of the Treasury’s Authority to Regulate GSE Debt: A Legal Analysis (open access)

The Department of the Treasury’s Authority to Regulate GSE Debt: A Legal Analysis

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Date: July 26, 2004
Creator: Brooks, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2003 Tax Cut: Proposals and Issues (open access)

The 2003 Tax Cut: Proposals and Issues

This report provides a brief description of each tax cut proposal, including major proposals offered by the Democrats in both the House and the Senate during 2003. It discusses the distributional affects of the proposals and potential effects on short and long term economic growth.
Date: July 16, 2004
Creator: Brumbaugh, David L. & Richards, Don C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2005 Defense Budget: Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

FY2005 Defense Budget: Frequently Asked Questions

This report is designed to provide facts and figures about the United States defense budget in order to help answer frequently asked questions about defense spending. The answers to these questions are based on analysis of recent and historical trends in the defense budget up to and including the fiscal year (FY) 2005 budget request.
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Chamberlin, Jeffrey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subsurface, High-Speed Current Jets in the Deepwater Region of the Gulf of Mexico: Final Report (open access)

Subsurface, High-Speed Current Jets in the Deepwater Region of the Gulf of Mexico: Final Report

This report is about the study of subsurface high-speed current jets in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Dimarco, Steven F.; Howard, Matthew K.; Nowlin, Worth D., Jr. & Reid, Robert O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry (open access)

Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry

This report is about how local residents respond to the presence of immigrants, in the ways in which migrants supply their labor and employers demand it, and in how migrants socially and economically incorporate into their receiving communities.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Donato, Katherine M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Edwards Aquifer Authority General Manager's Report, July 2004 (open access)

Edwards Aquifer Authority General Manager's Report, July 2004

Monthly newsletter of the general manage at the Edwards Aquifer Authority discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to water in southern Texas.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Edwards Aquifer Authority (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Military Tribunals: Historical Patterns and Lessons (open access)

Military Tribunals: Historical Patterns and Lessons

This report summarizes the types of military tribunals that have functioned from the Revolutionary War to the present time, explaining the legislative enactments that have guided these tribunals and the judicial decisions that have reviewed their constitutionality.
Date: July 9, 2004
Creator: Fisher, Louis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Care Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Child Care Issues in the 108th Congress

This report discusses the FY2003 Appropriations, FY2004: Comparing President Bush's Budget Proposals to the final Appropriations levels, President Bush's FY2005 Budget Request and Hearings.
Date: July 20, 2004
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Location of Federal Government Offices (open access)

Location of Federal Government Offices

This report discusses the legislative requirement for the offices of the U.S. government to be located in the District of Columbia (DC), dating to 1790. The report provides an overview of the relevant provisions (codified at 4 U.S.C. 71 and 72) and agencies that have exemptions.
Date: July 14, 2004
Creator: Halchin, L. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: The Government Pension Offset (GPO) (open access)

Social Security: The Government Pension Offset (GPO)

This report discusses the social security benefits and the spousal benefits of individuals who are not financially dependent on their spouses because they receive benefits based on their own work records.
Date: July 6, 2004
Creator: Haltzel, Laura
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of State-Legalized Same-Sex Marriage on Social Security Benefits and Pensions (open access)

The Effect of State-Legalized Same-Sex Marriage on Social Security Benefits and Pensions

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Date: July 28, 2004
Creator: Heltzel, Laura & Purcell, Patrick J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Budget Process Reform: A Brief Overview (open access)

Federal Budget Process Reform: A Brief Overview

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Date: July 8, 2004
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr. & Keith, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Implementing the Conservation Security Program (open access)

Implementing the Conservation Security Program

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Date: July 7, 2004
Creator: Johnson, Barbara A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Requirements Concerning the Provision of Interpreters by Hospitals and Doctors (open access)

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Requirements Concerning the Provision of Interpreters by Hospitals and Doctors

This report briefly discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities by places of public accommodation. This report specifically discusses a common question of whether or not the ADA requires medical doctors and hospitals to provide an interpreter when they have a patient with a hearing disability.
Date: July 8, 2004
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Research and Development Funding Activities in Federal Agencies: A Preliminary Inventory (open access)

Homeland Security Research and Development Funding Activities in Federal Agencies: A Preliminary Inventory

This report summarizes total federal funding for homeland security research and development and describes specific federal agency programs for such R&D.
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Knezo, Genevieve J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assistance to Firefighters Program: Distribution of Fire Grant Funding (open access)

Assistance to Firefighters Program: Distribution of Fire Grant Funding

The report is categorized into eight categories: (I) Background, (II) FY2001 Grants, (III) FY 2002 Grants,(IV) FY 2003 Grants, (V) FY 2004 Grants, (VI) Program Evaluation, (VII) Distribution of Fire Grants and (VIII) Activities in the 108th Congress.
Date: July 15, 2004
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monetary Policy: Current Policy and Conditions (open access)

Monetary Policy: Current Policy and Conditions

This report discusses monetary policy, which can also be defined in terms of the directives, policies, statements, and actions of the Federal Reserve, particularly those from its Board of Governors that have an effect on aggregate demand or national spending.
Date: July 21, 2004
Creator: Labonte, Marc & Makinen, Gail
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library