FBI Director: Appointment and Tenure (open access)

FBI Director: Appointment and Tenure

This report provides an overview of the development of the process for appointing the FBI Director, briefly discusses the history of nominations to this position, and identifies related congressional hearing records and reports.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Hogue, Henry B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
H-2A and H-2B Temporary Worker Visas: Policy and Related Issues (open access)

H-2A and H-2B Temporary Worker Visas: Policy and Related Issues

This report covers the H-2A agricultural guest worker program and the H-2B nonagricultural guest worker program. It explores the statutory and regulatory provisions that govern each program, focusing in particular on the much-debated labor certification process. It discusses past and present legislative efforts to reform the H-2A and H-2B programs and to create new guest worker visas, and identifies and analyzes key policy considerations to help inform future congressional action.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Irrigation Water Use Estimates with Remote Sensing Technologies: A Feasibility Study for Texas (open access)

Improving Irrigation Water Use Estimates with Remote Sensing Technologies: A Feasibility Study for Texas

Identifies the remote sensing and modelling technologies capable of estimating ET and PPT with the end goal of improving NIWR across Texas.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Caldwell, Todd; Huntington, Justin; Scanlon, Bridget; Joros, Andrew & Howard, Teresa
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Release: Comptroller Distributes Sales Tax Revenue, May 10, 2017] (open access)

[News Release: Comptroller Distributes Sales Tax Revenue, May 10, 2017]

News release documenting Texas monthly sales tax revenue for May 2017 with a general summary and table of local sales tax allocations.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Newsletter of Texas State Representative Ernest Bailes: Volume 1, Issue 8, May 2017 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative Ernest Bailes: Volume 1, Issue 8, May 2017

Newsletter of Ernest Bailes for his constituents in district 18 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature. It focuses on the update on the Pro-Life bill progressing through the House, the passing of a bill to protect forest land, the bill filed to support a presidential library at Sam Huston State University, and the bill proposed on public school accountability.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Bailes, Ernest James, IV
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Removal of FBI Director James Comey: Presidential Authority and the Senate's Role in the Appointment of the FBI Director (open access)

The Removal of FBI Director James Comey: Presidential Authority and the Senate's Role in the Appointment of the FBI Director

This report discusses President Trump's removal of James Comey as FBI Director and the Presidents legal power to do such a removal.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran: U.S. Economic Sanctions and the Authority to Lift Restrictions (open access)

Iran: U.S. Economic Sanctions and the Authority to Lift Restrictions

This report identifies the legislative bases for sanctions imposed on Iran, and the nature of the authority to waive or lift those restrictions. It includes two tables that present legislation and executive orders that are specific to Iran and its objectionable activities in the areas of terrorism, human rights, and weapons proliferation.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Rennack, Dianne E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 19, Pages 2199-2322, May 10, 2019 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 19, Pages 2199-2322, May 10, 2019

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: May 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History