Poland and Its Relations with the United States: In Brief (open access)

Poland and Its Relations with the United States: In Brief

This report provides an overview and assessment of some of the main dimensions of the topic of developments in Poland and its relations with the United States, which are of continuing interest to the U.S. Congress.
Date: September 30, 2015
Creator: Mix, Derek E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Poverty in the United States in 2014: In Brief (open access)

Poverty in the United States in 2014: In Brief

This report discusses poverty in United States that varies widely across the population according to age, education, family living arrangements, and area of residence, among other factors. The report elaborates on the poverty among selected groups, the geography of poverty, and the research supplemental poverty measure.
Date: September 30, 2015
Creator: Dalaker, Joseph
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2015 (open access)

Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2015

Annual financial report of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2015.
Date: September 30, 2015
Creator: Texas. Court of Appeals (14th)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Costs and Benefits of Paid Family and Medical Leave in the District of Columbia (open access)

Costs and Benefits of Paid Family and Medical Leave in the District of Columbia

A report on the costs and benefits of paid family and medical leave for employees working in Washington, D.C.
Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: Hayes, Jeffrey
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging Markets: Is Slower Growth Temporary? (open access)

Emerging Markets: Is Slower Growth Temporary?

This report discusses the growing vulnerabilities Emerging market (EM) countries are facing due to declining global trade, depreciating currencies, sharply lower commodity prices, volatile equity markets, and deeper economic reforms.
Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): FY2016 Appropriations (open access)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): FY2016 Appropriations

This report presents a discussion of the FY2015 enacted appropriations and requested funding for FY2016 for selected EPA programs and activities highlighted in the congressional debate.
Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: Esworthy, Robert & Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
EPA's New Ozone Standards: A Few Thoughts (open access)

EPA's New Ozone Standards: A Few Thoughts

This report discusses the EPA's review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). After several years of analysis, EPA proposed more stringent standards last November. This began a public comment period, leading toward the final decision.
Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: McCarthy, James E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran Nuclear Agreement (open access)

Iran Nuclear Agreement

This report discusses the recently finalized Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that attempts to ensure that Iran's nuclear program can be used for purely peaceful purposes, in exchange for a broad suspension of U.S. sanctions and a lifting of those sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) and the United Nations.
Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth & Kerr, Paul K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress (open access)

Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

This report discusses issues regarding U.S.-Japan economic relations. Japan is a significant partner of the United States in a number of foreign policy areas, particularly in U.S. security priorities, which range from hedging against Chinese military modernization to countering threats from North Korea.
Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: Chanlett-Avery, Emma; Manyin, Mark E.; Rinehart, Ian E.; Nelson, Rebecca M. & Williams, Brock R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare: Part B Premiums (open access)

Medicare: Part B Premiums

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Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Past Government Shutdowns: Key Resources (open access)

Past Government Shutdowns: Key Resources

This report provides an annotated list of historical documents and other resources related to several past government shutdowns. Sources for these documents and resources include the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Government Accountability Office (GAO), House and Senate Committees, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and Executive Office of the President.
Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: Nagel, Jared C. & Murray, Justin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices (open access)

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices

Sheet from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) listing contact information for each of the 16 Texas regional offices as well as the watermasters. The back includes a map showing the counties included in each of the corresponding regions.
Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices (open access)

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices

Sheet from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) listing contact information for each of the 16 Texas regional offices as well as the watermasters. The back includes a map showing the counties included in each of the corresponding regions.
Date: September 29, 2015
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Constitutional Implications of State GE Food Labeling Laws (open access)

Constitutional Implications of State GE Food Labeling Laws

This report analyzes three constitutional provisions relevant to state GE food labeling laws, the First Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, and the Commerce Clause, by explaining the wider legal background of GE labeling as well the court's analysis of these constitutional issues in GMA v. Sorrell.
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Lanza, Emily M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2016 Extension of the Higher Education Act: An Overview (open access)

FY2016 Extension of the Higher Education Act: An Overview

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Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Smole, David P. & Hegji, Alexandra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Biopower Carbon Neutral? (open access)

Is Biopower Carbon Neutral?

This report discusses Biomass energy, or bioenergy, which may receive more attention from stakeholders as an alternative to fossil fuels because of its potential to minimize the environmental impacts of energy production, provide energy security, and promote economic development.
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Bracmort, Kelsi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lord's Resistance Army: The U.S. Response (open access)

The Lord's Resistance Army: The U.S. Response

This report discusses the background and history of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the U.S.'s response. The LRA is a small armed group that originated in northern Uganda in 1987 and is currently operating in remote border areas between the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Sudan. The LRA's actions--which include massacres, abductions (notoriously of children), sexual assault, and looting--have caused humanitarian suffering and instability.
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Arieff, Alexis; Ploch Blanchard, Lauren & Husted, Tomas F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico's Oil and Gas Sector: Background, Reform Efforts, and Implications for the United States (open access)

Mexico's Oil and Gas Sector: Background, Reform Efforts, and Implications for the United States

This report provides an overview of Pemex and the content and prospects for Mexico's energy reforms. It then examines the U.S.-Mexico energy relationship through the lenses of trade and energy cooperation. It concludes by suggesting oversight issues for Congress related to what the enactment of energy reform might portend for Mexico's economic development, the U.S. energy matrix, and bilateral or North American energy cooperation.
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Ribando Seelke, Clare & Ratner, Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0037 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0037

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of a county to reimburse a county commissioner for legal costs related to defending against criminal allegations for which the commissioner was found not guilty (RQ-0018-KP).
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0038 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0038

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Open Meetings Act applies to district and county court-at-law judges when they meet to appoint county officials (RQ-0019-KP).
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0039 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0039

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Taxing authority of the Port IsabelSan Benito Navigation District (RQ-0021-KP).
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0040 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0040

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a community college system may expend funds for attorney's fees incurred by a member of its board of trustees in a challenge to the member's qualification to serve as trustee (RQ-0022-KP).
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0048 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0048

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Effect of the Governor's vetoes of the General Appropriations Act (RQ-0047-KP).
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Zivotofsky v. Kerry: The Jerusalem Passport Case and Its Potential Implications for Congress's Foreign Affairs Powers (open access)

Zivotofsky v. Kerry: The Jerusalem Passport Case and Its Potential Implications for Congress's Foreign Affairs Powers

This report briefly describes legislative efforts to modify U.S. policy with respect to Jerusalem, in particular multiple enactments of the passport provision. The report then summarizes the Supreme Court decision, including concurrences and dissents. Finally, the report concludes by suggesting possible implications of the decision with respect to Congress's authority to influence foreign affairs.
Date: September 28, 2015
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library