Conservation Reserve Program - Preliminary Results from the 15th Signup (open access)

Conservation Reserve Program - Preliminary Results from the 15th Signup

This report includes a table listing, by state, the: Number of bids, or offers, received; Total acres offered for enrollment; Acres offered that are currently enrolled in the CRP; Acres offered are not currently enrolled in the CRP; Acres on which contracts expire on September 30, 1997; Percentage of acres currently in the program that were offered for reenrollment; and Percentage of acres offered that are not currently enrolled in the CRP.
Date: April 18, 1997
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dairy Policy Issues (open access)

Dairy Policy Issues

Many dairy farmer groups are concerned that imports of milk protein concentrates (MPCs) are displacing domestic dairy ingredients and thus depressing farm milk prices. S.560 and H.R. 1160 would impose tariff rate quotas on certain MPCs, and S. 40 would prohibit the use of dry MPC in domestic cheese production. Dairy processor groups are opposed to these bills. A dairy producer group challenged the Customs Service classification of MPCs, but Customs ruled that current classifications are correct.
Date: April 18, 2003
Creator: Chite, Ralph M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budget FY2003: A Chronology with Internet Access (open access)

Budget FY2003: A Chronology with Internet Access

This is a select chronology of, and a finding guide for information on, congressional and presidential actions and documents related to major budget events in calendar year 2002, covering the FY2003 budget. Brief information is provided for the President’s budget, congressional budget resolutions, appropriations measures (regular, continuing, supplementals, and rescissions), budget reconciliation, House and Senate votes, line-item vetoes, publications, testimony, charts, and tables.
Date: April 18, 2003
Creator: Murray, Justin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The USA PATRIOT Act: A Sketch (open access)

The USA PATRIOT Act: A Sketch

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Date: April 18, 2002
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Energy Policy (open access)

Nuclear Energy Policy

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Date: April 18, 2003
Creator: Holt, Mark & Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Auditor Oversight: Proposals for New Regulator (open access)

Auditor Oversight: Proposals for New Regulator

This report provides basic background information on current regulation of auditors and summarizes alternatives now under consideration. Reforms proposed by Congress and the executive branch focus on oversight of the independent auditor, whose responsibility (in the broadest sense) is to certify that a corporation’s accounting statements reflect its true financial condition.
Date: April 18, 2002
Creator: Jickling, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latin America and the Caribbean: Legislative Issues in 2001-2002 (open access)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Legislative Issues in 2001-2002

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Date: April 18, 2002
Creator: Storrs, K. Larry; Hornbeck, J. F.; Serafino, Nina M.; Sullivan, Mark P. & Taft-Morales, Maureen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration: Adjustment to Permanent Resident Status Under Section 245(i) (open access)

Immigration: Adjustment to Permanent Resident Status Under Section 245(i)

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Date: April 18, 2002
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
African Development Bank and Fund (open access)

African Development Bank and Fund

The African Development Bank Group, including the Bank itself (AfDB) and its “soft-loan” affiliate, the African Development Fund (AfDF), is a development finance institution based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Bank has 53 African members, as well as 24 non-regional members, including the United States. In the mid-1990s, the Bank faced management problems and difficulties arising from non-performing loans, but reforms launched in 1995 by a new Bank president, Omar Kabbaj, brought new pledges of support from the non-regionals. U.S. contributions to the Fund resumed in FY1998 and to the Bank in FY2000. This report will be updated as events warrant.
Date: April 18, 2001
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplemental Appropriations FY2003: Iraq Conflict, Afghanistan, Global War on Terrorism, and Homeland Security (open access)

Supplemental Appropriations FY2003: Iraq Conflict, Afghanistan, Global War on Terrorism, and Homeland Security

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Date: April 18, 2003
Creator: Belasco, Amy & Nowels, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation (open access)

Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation

Falling agricultural exports and declining commodity prices led farm groups and agribusiness firms to urge the 106th Congress to pass legislation exempting foods and agricultural commodities from U.S. economic sanctions against certain countries. In completing action on the FY2001 agriculture appropriations bill, Congress codified the lifting of unilateral sanctions on commercial sales of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical products to Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Sudan, and extended this policy to apply to Cuba (Title IX of H.R. 5426, as enacted by P.L. 106-387; Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000). Related provisions place financing and licensing conditions on sales to these countries. Those that apply to Cuba, though, are permanent and more restrictive than for the other countries. Other provisions give Congress the authority in the future to veto a President's proposal to impose a sanction on the sale of agricultural or medical products.
Date: April 18, 2006
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China's Currency: Economic Issues and Options for U.S. Trade Policy (open access)

China's Currency: Economic Issues and Options for U.S. Trade Policy

When the U.S. runs a trade deficit with the Chinese, this requires a capital inflow from China to the United States. This, in turn, lowers U.S. interest rates and increases U.S. investment spending. On the negative side, lower priced goods from China may hurt U.S. industries that compete with those products, reducing their production and employment. In addition, an undervalued yuan makes U.S. exports to China more expensive, thus reducing the level of U.S. exports to China and job opportunities for U.S. workers in those sectors. However, in the long run, trade can affect only the composition of employment, not its overall level. Thus, inducing China to appreciate its currency would likely benefit some U.S. economic sectors, but would harm others, including U.S. consumers. Several estimates of the yuan’s undervaluation are evaluated in the report.
Date: April 18, 2006
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M. & Labonte, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Andean Counterdrug Initiative (ACI) and Related Funding Programs: FY2007 Assistance (open access)

Andean Counterdrug Initiative (ACI) and Related Funding Programs: FY2007 Assistance

This report discusses the funds and material support the U.S. has contributed to help Colombia and the Andean region fight drug trafficking since the development of Plan Colombia in 1999.
Date: April 18, 2006
Creator: Veillette, Connie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salaries of Members of Congress: A List of Payable Rates and Effective Dates, 1789-2006 (open access)

Salaries of Members of Congress: A List of Payable Rates and Effective Dates, 1789-2006

Congress is required by Article I, Section 6, of the Constitution to determine its own pay. Prior to 1969, Congress did so by enacting stand-alone legislation. From 1789 through 1968, Congress raised its pay 22 times using this procedure. Congressional salaries initially were $1,500. By 1968, they had risen to $30,000. Stand-alone legislation may still be used to raise Member pay, as it was most recently in 1982, 1983, 1989, and 1991, but two other methods are now also available, an automatic annual adjustment procedure and a commission process.
Date: April 18, 2006
Creator: Dwyer, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oil Industry Profit Review 2005 (open access)

Oil Industry Profit Review 2005

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Date: April 18, 2006
Creator: Pirog, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public Safety, Interoperability and the Transistion to Digital Television (open access)

Public Safety, Interoperability and the Transistion to Digital Television

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Date: April 18, 2005
Creator: Moore, Linda K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Efficiency: Budget, Oil Conservation, and Electricity Conservation Issues (open access)

Energy Efficiency: Budget, Oil Conservation, and Electricity Conservation Issues

Energy security, a major driver of federal energy efficiency programs in the past, came back into play as oil and gas prices rose late in the year 2000. The terrorist attack in 2001 and the Iraq war have led to heightened concern for energy security and raised further concerns about the vulnerability of energy infrastructure and the need for alternative fuels. Further, the 2001 power shortages in California, the 2003 northeast-midwest power blackout, and continuing high natural gas prices have brought a renewed emphasis on energy efficiency and energy conservation to dampen electricity, oil, and natural gas demand.
Date: April 18, 2005
Creator: Sissine, Fred
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 33, Number 16, Pages 3079-3350, April 18, 2008 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 33, Number 16, Pages 3079-3350, April 18, 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: April 18, 2008
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 28, Number 16, Pages 3173-3398, April 18, 2003 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 28, Number 16, Pages 3173-3398, April 18, 2003

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: April 18, 2003
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 135 (open access)

81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 135

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to designating March 31 and April 1, 2009, as Gregg County Days at the State Capitol.
Date: April 18, 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tenoning-Machines (open access)

Improvement in Tenoning-Machines

Patent for an improvement in tenoning-machines, including saws, gauges, flanges, and hinged plates.
Date: April 18, 1871
Creator: Bourland, Melton S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dish Cleaners and Drainers. (open access)

Improvement in Dish Cleaners and Drainers.

Patent for a convenient and cheap article of household ware for washing dishes, glassware, and similar articles of household use.
Date: April 18, 1876
Creator: Harper, Elijah S., Sr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns. (open access)

Improvement in Churns.

Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
Date: April 18, 1876
Creator: Rost, Otto
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers. (open access)

Improvement in Horse-Powers.

Patent for a horse-power with a master-wheel, communicating, through a pinion, crank, and pitman.
Date: April 18, 1876
Creator: Andrews, Henry K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History