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Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)/Frigate Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

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

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)/Frigate program, a program to procure 52 LCSs and frigates. The first ship in the program was procured in FY2005, and a total of 23 have been procured through FY2015. The Navy's proposed FY2016 budget is expected to request funding for the procurement of three more LCSs.
Date: January 30, 2015
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates: 2016-2017 Biennium, Articles 4-10 (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates: 2016-2017 Biennium, Articles 4-10

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during the legislative biennium 2016-2017, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles IV-X.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medicaid’s Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), FY2016 (open access)

Medicaid’s Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), FY2016

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Date: January 5, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
President Obama's $1 Billion Foreign Aid Request for Central America (open access)

President Obama's $1 Billion Foreign Aid Request for Central America

This report discusses the Obama Administration's recent request for over $1 billion in foreign assistance during FY2016 to support a whole-of-government "U.S. Strategy for Engagement in Central America."
Date: January 5, 2016
Creator: Ribando Seelke, Clare & Meyer, Peter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of the Annual Appropriations Process to Block Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (FY2011-FY2016) (open access)

Use of the Annual Appropriations Process to Block Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (FY2011-FY2016)

This report summarizes the language related to the Affordable Care (ACA) that was added to annual appropriations legislation by congressional appropriators since the ACA was signed into law. The information is presented in a table. While a detailed examination of the ACA itself is beyond the scope of this report, a brief overview of the ACA's core provisions and its impact on federal spending is provided as context for the material in the table. Congress remains deeply divided over implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which President Obama signed into law in March 2010.
Date: January 5, 2016
Creator: Redhead, C. S. & Cornell, Ada S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Background and Funding (open access)

Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Background and Funding

This report provides information on the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), which funds a network of local antipoverty agencies. It begins with background information on the CSBG and related activities, discusses a proposal pending in Congress to reauthorize CSBG and related activities, summarizes a new "Upward Mobility Project" initiative of the Obama Administration, and discusses current and recent funding activities affecting the CSBG.
Date: January 8, 2016
Creator: Spar, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and FY2016 Appropriations (open access)

U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and FY2016 Appropriations

This report provides an overview of U.S. assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyzes historical and recent trends in aid to the region as well as the Obama Administration's FY2016 request for State Department and U.S Agency for International Development (USAID)-administered assistance. It also examines legislative developments on foreign aid appropriations for Latin America and the Caribbean in FY2016, and raises questions Congress may examine as it considers future appropriations for the region.
Date: January 7, 2016
Creator: Meyer, Peter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy John Lewis (TAO-205) Class Oiler Shipbuilding Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy John Lewis (TAO-205) Class Oiler Shipbuilding Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the John Lewis (TAO-205) class oiler shipbuilding program, previously known as the TAO(X) program, a program to build a new class of 17 fleet oilers for the Navy. The Navy wants to procure the first TAO-205 in FY2016. The Navy's proposed FY2016 budget requested $674.2 million to fully fund the procurement of the first TAO-205.
Date: January 8, 2016
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing DHS Appropriations by Component, FY2016: Fact Sheet (open access)

Comparing DHS Appropriations by Component, FY2016: Fact Sheet

This report provides a table and figure that compare homeland security appropriations enacted in FY2015 to those requested for FY2016. Generally, the homeland security appropriations bill includes all annual appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), providing resources to every departmental component.
Date: January 20, 2016
Creator: Painter, William L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continuing Resolutions: Overview of Components and Recent Practices (open access)

Continuing Resolutions: Overview of Components and Recent Practices

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the components of Continuing Resolutions (CRs) and a longitudinal analysis of recent congressional practices. Consequently, the data and analysis in this report are inclusive of all appropriations acts entitled or otherwise designated as providing continuing appropriations. The first section of this report explains six of the possible main components of CRs: coverage, duration, funding rate, restrictions on new activities, anomalies, and legislative provisions. The second section discusses the enactment of regular appropriations prior to the start of the fiscal year and the number of regular appropriations bills enacted through a CR since FY1977. The third section analyzes variations in the number and duration of CRs enacted each fiscal year since FY1997, the most recent fiscal year that all regular appropriations were enacted on time. Finally, the fourth section of this report discusses the features of the 15 CRs that provided funding through the remainder of the fiscal year since FY1977. A list of all CRs enacted between FY1977 and FY2016 is provided at the end of this report in Table 4.
Date: January 14, 2016
Creator: Saturno, James V. & Tollestrup, Jessica
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations: FY2016 (open access)

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations: FY2016

This report discusses the FY2016 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and provides an overview of the Administration's FY2016 request. The report makes note of many budgetary resources provided to DHS, but its primary focus is on funding approved by Congress through the appropriations process.
Date: January 14, 2016
Creator: Painter, William L. & Schwemle, Barbara L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy LX(R) Amphibious Ship Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy LX(R) Amphibious Ship Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress regarding the LX(R) ships meant to replase the Whidbey Island/Harpers Ferry (LSD-41/49) class amphibious ships. In particular, issues focus on funding for the research and development of the ships and their procurement.
Date: January 8, 2016
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: FY1970-FY2017 (open access)

Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: FY1970-FY2017

This report is a research aid that lists the Department of Defense (DOD) authorization bills (Table 1) and appropriations bills (Table 2) for FY1970-FY2017. This report includes all the pertinent information on the passage of these bills through the legislative process: bill numbers, report numbers, dates reported and passed, recorded vote numbers and vote tallies, dates of passage of the conference reports with their numbers and votes, vetoes, substitutions, dates of final passage, and public law numbers.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: DeBruyne, Nese F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates: 2016-2017 Biennium, Articles 4-10 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates: 2016-2017 Biennium, Articles 4-10

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during the legislative biennium 2016-2017, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles IV-X.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates: 2016-2017 Biennium, Articles 1-3 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates: 2016-2017 Biennium, Articles 1-3

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during the legislative biennium 2016-2017, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles I to III.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Summary of Texas Senate Legislative Budget Board Estimates: 2016-17 Biennium (open access)

Summary of Texas Senate Legislative Budget Board Estimates: 2016-17 Biennium

Report compiled by the Legislative Budget board giving a summary of the Texas Senate legislative budget estimates for the 2016-17 biennium.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Summary of Texas House Legislative Budget Board Estimates: 2016-17 Biennium (open access)

Summary of Texas House Legislative Budget Board Estimates: 2016-17 Biennium

Report compiled by the Legislative Budget Board that gives a summary of the the Texas House of Representatives legislative budget estimates for the 2016-17 biennium.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Use of the Annual Appropriations Process to Block Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (FY2011-FY2017) (open access)

Use of the Annual Appropriations Process to Block Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (FY2011-FY2017)

This report summarizes the ACA-related language added to annual appropriations legislation by congressional appropriators since the ACA was signed into law. The information is presented in Table 1. While a detailed examination of the ACA itself is beyond the scope of this report, a brief overview of the ACA's core provisions and its impact on federal spending is provided as context for the material in the table.
Date: January 13, 2017
Creator: Redhead, C. Stephen & Cornell, Ada S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3. Public Education (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3. Public Education

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to public education (articles 1-3_.
Date: January 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1-3.
Date: January 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1-3.
Date: January 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3 (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1-3.
Date: January 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Article 3 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Article 3

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to article 3.
Date: January 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Article 3 (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Article 3

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to article 3.
Date: January 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History