Water Infrastructure Funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (open access)

Water Infrastructure Funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

This report identifies funding for water infrastructure programs and projects included in the bill.
Date: May 28, 2010
Creator: Copeland, Claudia; Stubbs, Megan & Stern, Charles V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Payment Policies (open access)

Medicare Payment Policies

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Date: December 29, 2010
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): Fact Sheet on Three International Agreements (open access)

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

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Date: June 15, 2010
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Budget Resolutions: Historical Information (open access)

Congressional Budget Resolutions: Historical Information

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Date: January 29, 2010
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr. & Murray, Justin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Funding of Presidential Nominating Conventions: Overview and Policy Options (open access)

Federal Funding of Presidential Nominating Conventions: Overview and Policy Options

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Date: March 18, 2010
Creator: Garrett, R. Sam & Reese, Shawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
CRS Issue Statement on the Clean Air Act and Air Quality Standards (open access)

CRS Issue Statement on the Clean Air Act and Air Quality Standards

This report discusses the Broad questions regarding the effectiveness of economic versus regulatory approaches to controlling air pollution and the role of federal versus state governments in controlling emissions.
Date: January 4, 2010
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beginning and End of the Terms of United States Senators Chosen to Fill Senate Vacancies (open access)

Beginning and End of the Terms of United States Senators Chosen to Fill Senate Vacancies

Under the Constitution, the Rules of the Senate, statutory law, and consistent Senate practices, an individual elected to the United States Senate during a session of Congress to succeed an appointed Senator may begin his or her term of office upon receipt by the Senate of "credentials" in proper form from the state, and by taking the constitutionally required oath of office in open Senate session. The appointed Senator who is being succeeded remains in the office until the new "Senator-elect" is qualified (i.e. is sworn in and seated as a "Senator" by the Senate). This report details the formal and informal rules in such cases.
Date: January 20, 2010
Creator: Maskell, Jack
System: The UNT Digital Library
CRS Issue Statement on Military Strategies and Force Structure (open access)

CRS Issue Statement on Military Strategies and Force Structure

This report discusses about Military Strategies and force structure. It further discusses about military force structure that includes what types of ground forces and special operation units are required for current and future operations.
Date: January 13, 2010
Creator: Daggett, Stephen
System: The UNT Digital Library
False Patent Marking: Litigation and Legislation (open access)

False Patent Marking: Litigation and Legislation

This report will describe and analyze the Federal Circuit's 2009 decision that requires a per-article penalty for false marking, as well as two subsequent Federal Circuit decisions in 2010 that answer several questions that have arisen during the recent false patent marking litigation.
Date: October 20, 2010
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Qualified Charitable Distributions from Individual Retirement Accounts: A Fact Sheet (open access)

Qualified Charitable Distributions from Individual Retirement Accounts: A Fact Sheet

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Date: September 24, 2010
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the 111th Congress: Conflicting Values and Difficult Choices (open access)

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the 111th Congress: Conflicting Values and Difficult Choices

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Date: June 11, 2010
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.; Corn, M. Lynne; Sheikh, Pervaze A.; Meltz, Robert & Alexander, Kristina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadband Infrastructure Programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (open access)

Broadband Infrastructure Programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

This report is on Broadband Infrastructure Programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Date: January 7, 2010
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and “DREAM Act” Legislation (open access)

Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and “DREAM Act” Legislation

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Date: February 3, 2010
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rulemaking Requirements and Authorities in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (open access)

Rulemaking Requirements and Authorities in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

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Date: November 3, 2010
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Actual Farm Bill Spending and Cost Estimates (open access)

Actual Farm Bill Spending and Cost Estimates

This report discusses the budget for the 2008 Farm Bill, and its reauthorization. Moreover, the report discusses the increasing level of demand for fiscal constraint and the current large budget deficits.
Date: December 13, 2010
Creator: Monke, Jim & Johnson, Renée
System: The UNT Digital Library
Israel and the Palestinians: Prospects for a Two-State Solution. January 2010 (open access)

Israel and the Palestinians: Prospects for a Two-State Solution. January 2010

This report reviews the prospects of a two-state solution in the context of possible signs of progress and doubts raised in U.S., Israeli, Palestinian, and international circles.
Date: January 8, 2010
Creator: Zanotti, Jim
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Is the “Farm Bill”? (open access)

What Is the “Farm Bill”?

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Date: May 6, 2010
Creator: Johnson, Renée
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Courts: Background, Effectiveness, and Policy Issues for Congress (open access)

Drug Courts: Background, Effectiveness, and Policy Issues for Congress

This report includes an overview of state drug courts and the related federal grant program. The report then discusses some of the related issues that may be of interest to congress if it considers reauthorizing the drug court grant program or other related legislation.
Date: October 12, 2010
Creator: Franco, Celinda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Potential Employer Penalties Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (open access)

Summary of Potential Employer Penalties Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

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Date: June 2, 2010
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pesticide Registration and Tolerance Fees: An Overview (open access)

Pesticide Registration and Tolerance Fees: An Overview

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Date: August 11, 2010
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadband Loan and Grant Programs in the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (open access)

Broadband Loan and Grant Programs in the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service

Given the large potential impact broadband access may have on the economic development of rural America, concern has been raised over a "digital divide" between rural and urban or suburban areas with respect to broadband deployment. While there are many examples of rural communities with state of the art telecommunications facilities, recent surveys and studies have indicated that, in general, rural areas tend to lag behind urban and suburban areas in broadband deployment. This report provides information on the background of broadband in rural American, pilot broadband loan and grant programs, community connect broadband grants, criticisms of the broadband programs, issues during reauthorization, appropriations, and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Date: October 7, 2010
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
CRS Issue Statement on the Middle East (open access)

CRS Issue Statement on the Middle East

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Date: February 23, 2010
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.; Zanotti, Jim; Addis, Casey L.; Migdalovitz, Carol; Katzmann, Kenneth; Blanchard, Christopher M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Previewing Dairy Policy Options for the Next Farm Bill (open access)

Previewing Dairy Policy Options for the Next Farm Bill

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Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
CRS Issue Statement on Surface Transportation (open access)

CRS Issue Statement on Surface Transportation

This report discusses about Highway and transit program finance, transportation demand, system congestion, the physical condition of the nation's surface transportation infrastructure and highway safety.
Date: January 6, 2010
Creator: Mallett, William J.
System: The UNT Digital Library