This report briefly outlines the history of incidents involving civilian flights being hit by shoulder fired missiles and discusses the Directed Infrared Countermeasure (DIRCM) systems, which were developed to be mounted on commercial airliners for defense against infrared guided missiles and were never widely implemented. The report discusses the limitations of DIRCM systems, especially in the context of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which would not have been saved by such a system due to having been brought down by a radar-guided missile. The report also examines alternative ways to protect commercial airliners from missile attacks, such as flight techniques and ground-based systems.

This report examines the circumstances surrounding the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). The report considers several factors that lead investigators to believe that the plane may have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired from a Buk road-mobile missile erector-launcher, including the type of damage directly sustained by the plane, the large debris field, the crash's proximity to an active conflict zone in which military aircraft had recently been shot down and U.S. intelligence that detected a missile launch from the area around the time the plane was overhead.

This report provides a description of the eligibility requirements, benefit availability, benefit payments, participation, and obligations of the Post-9/11 GI Bill. The report also describes a few issues that may be addressed by Congress.

This report provides an overview of the child tax credit under current law, as well as a legislative history of this tax benefit, which helps explain its purpose and current structure.

This report examines some of the history of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA), focusing primarily on its creation and most recent legislative reauthorization. It also discusses the foremost active authorities of the DPA.

This report opens with an analysis of the data of the recent surge in UAC crossing the border. It then discusses current policy on the treatment, care, and custody of the population. The processing and treatment of UAC is detailed, with a discussion of each agency that is involved with the population. The report then discusses both Administrative and Congressional action to deal with the current crisis. As this issue is still emerging, the report concludes with a series of questions related to UAC that remain unanswered.

This report provides a state-by-state breakdown of the grants awarded to date. It then briefly describes the requirement for exchanges to be selfsustaining, and concludes with a discussion of the sources and amounts of funding that Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has used and plans to use to support federally-facilitated exchange (FFE) operations.

This report examines some of the history of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA), focusing primarily on its creation and most recent legislative reauthorization. It also discusses the foremost active authorities of the DPA.

Request for funding by legislative appropriations for the office of the State Prosecuting Attorney for FY 2016-2017, submitted to the Governor's Office of Budget, Planning and Policy and the Legislative Budget Board.

Blank forms used by the Texas Ethics Commission covering various topics related to political committees and finances.

This is the form for monthly filings of General-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report. The form requires the general information of the Committee, all contributions, listing of expenditures, and other financial information.

Instructive guide to the Texas Ethics Commission Form JC/OH, the Judicial Candidate/Officeholder Campaign Finance Report.

Texas Ethics Commission Form for financial information from county executive committee campaigns. The form requires relative committee information, listing of total contributions, expenditures, outstanding loans, and interested earned.

Texas Ethics Commission form for financial information from a State/County Chair Specific-Purpose Committee Campaign.

This is the instruction guide for the Judicial Specific-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report. The guide provides general instructions such as electronic filing, how to fill out forms, Ethics Commission guides, photocopying forms, and filing dates. Instructions also cover schedule A(J),B(J),E(J),F,H,I,J,K,L,M,and T.

This is the instruction guide for the General-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report. The guide provides general instructions such as electronic filing, how to fill out forms, Ethics Commission guides, photocopying forms, and filing dates. Instructions also cover schedule A,B,C-1,C-2,D,E,F,I,J,K,and T.

This is the instruction guide for the State/County Chair Campaign Finance Report. The guide provides general instructions such as electronic filing, how to fill out forms, Ethics Commission guides, photocopying forms, and filing dates. Instructions also cover schedule A,B,E,F,G,H,I,K,and T.

Instructive guide to Texas Ethics Commission form C/OH, the Candidate/Officeholder Campaign Finance Report.

Campaign finance reporting forms for County Executive Committee elections.

Texas Ethics Commission form for financial information from Judicial Candidate/Officeholder campaigns.

This is the form for monthly filings of State / County Chair Campaign Finance Report. The form requires the general information of the Committee, all contributions, listing of expenditures, and other financial information.

Instructions for Form CEC, a Texas Ethics Commission form for County Executive Committee campaign finance reporting.

This is the State of Texas form for campaign finance reporting. The Texas Ethics Commission requires applicants to submit contact information, committee activity, political contributions, expenditures, interest earned, gains, travel, and affidavit of dissolution.

This is a form for the use of judicial specific-purpose committee campaign finance report issued by the Texas Ethics Commission. Form JSPAC requires information on the committee, contribution totals, loans, expenditures, interest earned, gains, and travel.