Immigration of Agricultural Guest Workers: Policy, Trends, and Legislative Issues (open access)

Immigration of Agricultural Guest Workers: Policy, Trends, and Legislative Issues

This report discusses the revision of U.S. immigration policy on agricultural guest workers that are coming from various perspectives, and several major bills have already been introduced in the 107th Congress
Date: February 15, 2001
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen & Collver, Geoffrey K
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pay-As-You-Go Rules in the Federal Budget Process (open access)

Pay-As-You-Go Rules in the Federal Budget Process

The pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules in the federal budget process require that new direct spending and revenue legislation be deficit neutral. The net effect of all such legislation enacted during a session must not cause a net increase in the budget deficit (or a net decrease in the budget surplus). If direct spending or revenue legislation causes an increase in the deficit, it must be offset by an equivalent amount of direct spending reductions, revenue increases, or a combination of both.
Date: February 15, 1999
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources (open access)

Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources

This report introduces selected basic sources that are useful in obtaining background information or specific facts on the status of federal legislative or regulatory initiatives. It includes telephone, online, and media sources are included, as well as pertinent directories, such as those of organizations that track areas of interest. Annotations describing each source's contents and organization are included so that researchers can select those that most closely fit their needs. Internet addresses usually provide information about the items, rather than access to them.
Date: February 15, 2000
Creator: Davis, Carol D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade Promotion Authority (Fast-Track Authority for Trade Agreements): Background and Developments in the 107th Congress (open access)

Trade Promotion Authority (Fast-Track Authority for Trade Agreements): Background and Developments in the 107th Congress

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Date: February 15, 2002
Creator: Sek, Lenore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Issues Regarding "Full Funding" of Part B Grants to States (open access)

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Issues Regarding "Full Funding" of Part B Grants to States

Congressional Research Service (CRS) report entailing information about issues regarding "full funding" of Part B grants to states in regards to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Topics include, the current funding formula, distributional issues, the cost of special education etc..
Date: February 15, 2001
Creator: Apling, Richard N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative: An Overview (open access)

The Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative: An Overview

The Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative (BMENA) is a multilateral development and reform plan aimed at fostering economic and political liberalization in a wide geographic area of Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries. In December 2004, the first BMENA meeting took place in Rabat, Morocco and was called the “Forum for the Future.”At the forum, foreign ministers and finance ministers of the countries in the region stretching from Morocco to Pakistan as well as from the countries of the G8 pledged to create several new development programs and committed $60 million to a regional fund for business development. Critics of BMENA contend that the initiative focuses too heavily on economic issues instead of political reform and does little to strengthen non-governmental organizations and civil society groups in Arab and non- Arab Muslim countries.
Date: February 15, 2005
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Tax Policy (open access)

Energy Tax Policy

Omnibus energy legislation (H.R. 4) that is now in conference would expand energy tax incentives significantly. The House passed the bill on August 2, 2001, and the Senate approved its version April 25, 2002. Several energy tax issues are addressed in these bills: 1) tax incentives to increase the supply of oil and gas, and the demand for coal; 2) energy tax issues relating to energy conservation and energy efficiency; 3) energy tax issues relating to alternative fuels; 4) selected issues relating to electricity restructuring; and 5) expiring energy tax provisions.
Date: February 15, 2002
Creator: Lazzari, Salvatore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security, Saving, and the Economy (open access)

Social Security, Saving, and the Economy

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Date: February 15, 2001
Creator: Cashell, Brian W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues (open access)

Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues

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Date: February 15, 2002
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid Expenditures, FY2002 and FY2003 (open access)

Medicaid Expenditures, FY2002 and FY2003

Medicaid is a health insurance program jointly funded by the states and the federal government. Generally, eligibility is limited to low-income children, pregnant women, parents of dependent children, people with disabilities, and the elderly. Each state designs and administers its own program within broad federal guidelines.
Date: February 15, 2005
Creator: Tritz, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Rules Changes Affecting Floor Procedures in the 109th Congress (open access)

House Rules Changes Affecting Floor Procedures in the 109th Congress

On the first day of the 109th Congress, the House agreed to H.Res. 5, which made several rules changes affecting floor proceedings. These modifications include allowing committees to adopt rules giving chairs the general authority to make the motion necessary to send a measure to the conference; adding Wednesdays to the permissible days on which suspension motions may be entertained; eliminating the Corrections Calendar; amending the rules of decorum and debate regarding references to the Senate and its members; and granting the Speaker added authority to postpone votes on certain questions.
Date: February 15, 2005
Creator: Carr, Thomas P. & Rybicki, Elizabeth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethylene Dibromide (open access)

Ethylene Dibromide

Much attention has recently been focused on the chemical ethylene dibromide (EDB). This chemical has been widely used in leaded gasoline, and has also been used to treat grains, citrus and other crops. It has been found in foods and in groundwater. This paper examines the possible health effects of exposure to EDB, as well as its regulation. The possible health effects and regulation of various chemical and physical alternatives to EDB are also examined. This paper concludes with some policy considerations pertinent to EDB.
Date: February 15, 1984
Creator: Simpson, Michael M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Support Enforcement: Program Basics (open access)

Child Support Enforcement: Program Basics

In FY2004, the CSE program collected $21.9 billion in child support payments and served 15.9 million child support cases. However, the program still collects only 18% of child support obligations for which it has responsibility and collects payments for only 51% of its caseload.
Date: February 15, 2006
Creator: Solomon-Fears, Carmen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles (open access)

Homeland Security: Protecting Airliners from Terrorist Missiles

Recent events have focused attention on the threat that terrorists with shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), referred to as Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), pose to commercial airliners. This report discusses SAMs and examines options for mitigating missile threats.
Date: February 15, 2005
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher; Feickert, Andrew & Elias, Bartholomew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Proposed U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (open access)

The Proposed U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement

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Date: February 15, 2006
Creator: Hornbeck, J. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Sensitive but Unclassified" Information and Other Controls: Policy and Options for Scientific and Technical Information (open access)

"Sensitive but Unclassified" Information and Other Controls: Policy and Options for Scientific and Technical Information

This report traces the evolution of "sensitive but unclassified" or SBU-related controls; summarizes actions taken to protect certain types of scientific and technical information; describes critiques of some control policies; and summarizes proposals and actions, including congressional, executive and other initiatives, to clarify these issues and develop policies that serve various stakeholders. It also raises issues that may warrant further attention.
Date: February 15, 2006
Creator: Knezo, Genevieve J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century

The USCNS/21 is charged with thinking comprehensively and creatively about how the United States should provide for its national security in the 21st century.
Date: February 15, 2001
Creator: U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library
Persistant Organic Pollutants (POPs): Fact Sheet on Three International Agreements (open access)

Persistant Organic Pollutants (POPs): Fact Sheet on Three International Agreements

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Date: February 15, 2006
Creator: Schierow, Linda-Jo
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russia's Cutoff of Natural Gas to Ukraine: Context and Implications (open access)

Russia's Cutoff of Natural Gas to Ukraine: Context and Implications

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Date: February 15, 2006
Creator: Nichol, Jim; Woehrel, Steven & Gelb, Bernard A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, February 15, 1943 : week of February 5 to February 12

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Command, Solomons, North Africa, New Guinea, Russia. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps of Guadalcanal; Russian front. Photographs: Heads down [under the barbed wire]; Jap navel gun; Near the end [fighting in Papua]; North Africa; Poles in Iraq; Vital supply: water for the Eighth Army; German mortar. Back: Poster illustrates uniforms and insignia of the German Army.
Date: February 15, 1943
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 33, Number 7, Pages 1191-1464, February 15, 2008 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 33, Number 7, Pages 1191-1464, February 15, 2008

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 15, 2008
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Intelligence Spending: Public Disclosure Issues (open access)

Intelligence Spending: Public Disclosure Issues

This report describes the constituent parts of the intelligence budget, past practice in handling intelligence authorizations and appropriations, the arguments that have been advanced for and against making intelligence spending totals public, a legal analysis of these issues, and a review of the implications of post-Cold War developments on the question. It also describes past congressional interest in keeping intelligence spending totals secret.
Date: February 15, 2007
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr. & Bazan, Elizabeth B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 27, Number 7, Pages 1043-1240, February 15, 2002 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 27, Number 7, Pages 1043-1240, February 15, 2002

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 15, 2002
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Party Leaders in the House: Election, Duties, and Responsibilities (open access)

Party Leaders in the House: Election, Duties, and Responsibilities

Each major party in the House has a leadership hierarchy. This report summarizes the election, duties, and responsibilities of the Speaker of the House, the majority and minority leaders, and the whips and whip system.
Date: February 15, 2011
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library