Homeland Security: Intelligence Support (open access)

Homeland Security: Intelligence Support

Legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security includes provisions for an information analysis element within the new department. This report examines the information analysis function and the sharing of information among federal agencies but does not address provisions in the proposed legislation governing the sharing of intelligence with state and local officials.
Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insurance Regulation: Background and Issues (open access)

Insurance Regulation: Background and Issues

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Cobb, Carolyn & Webel, Baird
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consumer Bankruptcy and Household Debt (open access)

Consumer Bankruptcy and Household Debt

Financial distress is most common among lower-income families, but its incidence has grown in all income brackets. This trend suggests that explanations for the rise in consumer bankruptcy filings are more likely to be found in micro-analysis of individuals and groups of debtors than in macroeconomic indicators. This report presents statistics on bankruptcy filings, household debt, and households in financial distress.
Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Jickling, Mark
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Israel: U.S. Foreign Assistance (open access)

Israel: U.S. Foreign Assistance

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Israeli-United States Relations (open access)

Israeli-United States Relations

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues (open access)

Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues

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Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Prados, Alfred B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran's Activities and Influence in Iraq (open access)

Iran's Activities and Influence in Iraq

Iran is materially assisting all major Shiite Muslim political factions in Iraq, most of which have longstanding ideological, political, and religious ties to Tehran, and their armed militias. The Administration notes growing involvement by Tehran in actively directing training, and arming Shiite militiamen linked, to varying degrees, to hardline cleric Moqtada Al Sadr. Some analysis goes so far as to see a virtual "proxy war" between the United States and Iran inside Iraq.
Date: May 14, 2008
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Serbia: Current Issues and U.S. Policy (open access)

Serbia: Current Issues and U.S. Policy

Serbia faces an important crossroads in its development. It is seeking to integrate into the European Union (EU), but its progress has been hindered by a failure to arrest four remaining indicted war criminals and by tensions with the United States and the EU over the independence of Serbia's Kosovo province. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and most other EU countries have recognized Kosovo's independence. Serbian leaders condemned said recognition and have withdrawn Serbia's ambassadors from the United States and other countries recognizing Kosovo's independence. The second session of the 110th Congress may consider legislation on Serbia, including conditions on aid to Serbia.
Date: May 14, 2008
Creator: Woehrel, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: U.S. Military Operations (open access)

Iraq: U.S. Military Operations

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Vietnam-U.S. Normalization Process (open access)

The Vietnam-U.S. Normalization Process

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tobacco Issues: National Public Opinion (open access)

Tobacco Issues: National Public Opinion

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Date: May 14, 1998
Creator: Coleman, Kevin J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-Term Care Chart Book: Persons Served, Payors and Spending (open access)

Long-Term Care Chart Book: Persons Served, Payors and Spending

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: O'Shaughnessy, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medical Malpractice Liability Reform: Legal Issues and Fifty-State Survey of Caps on Punitive Damages and Noneconomic Damages (open access)

Medical Malpractice Liability Reform: Legal Issues and Fifty-State Survey of Caps on Punitive Damages and Noneconomic Damages

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Laws on Human Cloning (open access)

State Laws on Human Cloning

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Feder, Jody
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pakistan-U.S. Relations (open access)

Pakistan-U.S. Relations

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Date: May 14, 2004
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: The Department of Defense's Role (open access)

Homeland Security: The Department of Defense's Role

This report addresses the Department of Defense's role of Homeland Security.
Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit and the 105th Congress (open access)

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit and the 105th Congress

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) was initiated in the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-188). It is a temporary measure intended to encourage for-profit employers to hire members of specifically designated groups thought to experience recurring problems in the labor market. This document describes the WOTC and identifies issues for members of the 105th Congress.
Date: May 14, 1998
Creator: Levine, Linda
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation (open access)

Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Lyke, Bob & Sroka, Christopher J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Free Trade Area of the Americas: Status of Negotiations and Major Policy Issues (open access)

A Free Trade Area of the Americas: Status of Negotiations and Major Policy Issues

At the second Summit of the Americas in Santiago, Chile (April 1998), 34 Western Hemisphere nations agreed to initiate formal negotiations to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by 2005. The process so far has led to two draft texts, the second completed for the November 1, 2002 trade ministerial in Quito, Ecuador. A year later, the third draft is expected at the eighth trade ministerial scheduled for November 17-21, 2003 in Miami. Although implementing legislation is not anticipated until the next Congress, for an FTAA to be signed in January 2005, the 108th Congress will play a crucial role during this last phase of the negotiations given its expanded consultative and oversight authority as defined in the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) provisions of the Trade Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-210). This report will be updated periodically.
Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Hornbeck, J. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Firms That Incorporate Abroad for Tax Purposes: Corporate "Inversions" and "Expatriation" (open access)

Firms That Incorporate Abroad for Tax Purposes: Corporate "Inversions" and "Expatriation"

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Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Brumbaugh, David L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Establishment and Implementation of Northern Command (open access)

Homeland Security: Establishment and Implementation of Northern Command

Report on the Department of Defense's (DoD) establishment of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) advancements in fighting terrorism, as well as the issues of NORTHCOM's relationship with other agencies within the DoD.
Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: Bolkcom, Christopher; DeSerisy, Lloyd & Kapp, Lawrence
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pesticides Regulation: Current Issues (open access)

Pesticides Regulation: Current Issues

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Date: May 14, 1984
Creator: Aidala, James V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Functional Analysis of Congressional Member Office Operations (open access)

A Functional Analysis of Congressional Member Office Operations

This report presents a general analysis of personal staff functions in a congressional office. Because there is little specific information from Congress and other sources regarding staff job descriptions and because congressional office organization patterns very significantly, this report focuses on the staff functions that are common to all offices regardless of organizational structure or job title: office management; mail; projects; casework; legislation; schedulng and personal services; press and public relations; and political functions.
Date: May 14, 1981
Creator: Carlile, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Return to Private Security Screening at Airports?: Background and Issues Regarding the Opt-Out Provision of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (open access)

A Return to Private Security Screening at Airports?: Background and Issues Regarding the Opt-Out Provision of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act

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Date: May 14, 2004
Creator: Elias, Bartholomew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library