A Primer on WIC: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (open access)

A Primer on WIC: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children

The report reviews the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the services and products they provide to women and their infants or children. The report discusses what requirements must be met for WIC and who is eligible to sign up for aid.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Aussenberg, Randy Alison & Kortrey, Julia E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation Following "El Chapo" Guzmán's Escape (open access)

U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation Following "El Chapo" Guzmán's Escape

This report discusses the escape of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán on July 11, 2015, from a maximum security federal prison near Mexico City.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Issues in the U.S. Ratification Debate (open access)

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Issues in the U.S. Ratification Debate

This report discusses the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities; its purpose is to promote, protect, and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities.
Date: January 21, 2015
Creator: Blanchfield, Luisa & Brown, Cynthia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): Waiver Authority and Modification of Volumes (open access)

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): Waiver Authority and Modification of Volumes

This report discusses the process and criteria for the Environmental Protection Agency to waive various portions of the renewable fuel standard (RFS), and the modification of applicable volumes.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Bracmort, Kelsi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Funding Gaps and Government Shutdowns: CRS Experts (open access)

Funding Gaps and Government Shutdowns: CRS Experts

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Date: September 21, 2015
Creator: Brass, Clinton T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation (open access)

North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation

This report covers the overall U.S.-North Korea relationship, with an emphasis on nuclear diplomacy. Negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program have occupied the past three U.S. administrations, even as some analysts anticipated a collapse of the isolated authoritarian regime. North Korea has been the recipient of over $1 billion in U.S. aid (though none since 2009) and the target of dozens of U.S. sanctions.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Chanlett-Avery, Emma; Rinehart, Ian E.; Nikitin, Mary Beth & Park, Sungtae
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality Issues in the 114th Congress: An Overview (open access)

Water Quality Issues in the 114th Congress: An Overview

This report provides an overview of the water quality issues in the 114th Congress.
Date: January 21, 2015
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amendments in the House: Types and Forms (open access)

Amendments in the House: Types and Forms

This report addresses Types and Forms of Amendments in the House.
Date: August 21, 2015
Creator: Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vulnerable Youth: Federal Mentoring Programs and Issues (open access)

Vulnerable Youth: Federal Mentoring Programs and Issues

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Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Fernandes-Alcantara, Adrienne L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cybersecurity Issues and Challenges (open access)

Cybersecurity Issues and Challenges

This report provides information about Cybersecurity Issues and Challenges. People who perform cyberattacks generally fall into various categories like criminals, spies, nation-state warriors, terrorists, etc.
Date: January 21, 2015
Creator: Fischer, Eric A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Postal Service Workforce Size and Employment Categories, FY1995-FY2014 (open access)

U.S. Postal Service Workforce Size and Employment Categories, FY1995-FY2014

This report provides data from the past 20 years on the size and composition of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS's) workforce. Reforms to the size and composition of the workforce have been an integral part of USPS's strategy to reduce costs and regain financial solvency, particularly between FY2007 and FY2014.
Date: October 21, 2015
Creator: Francis, Kathryn A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Official Mail Costs (open access)

Congressional Official Mail Costs

The report is categorized into two categories: (I) Introduction, (II) Official Mail Costs, FY2005 to FY2014, (III) Official Mail Costs, FY1954-FY2014. It also points out Official Mail Costs and Election Year vs. Non-election Year.
Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Glassman, Matthew E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Committee Funding Requests and Authorizations, 104th-114th Congresses (open access)

House Committee Funding Requests and Authorizations, 104th-114th Congresses

This report provides committee funding requests and authorizations as adopted pursuant to primary expense authorizations for House committees in the 104th through 114th Congresses.
Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Glassman, Matthew E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Scoring (open access)

Dynamic Scoring

This report explains dynamic scoring, including the types of effects incorporated and the types of models used, as well as what groups conduct or have conducted macroeconomic analysis of tax changes.
Date: January 21, 2015
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deferred Maintenance of Federal Land Management Agencies: FY2005-FY2014 Estimates (open access)

Deferred Maintenance of Federal Land Management Agencies: FY2005-FY2014 Estimates

This report discusses the questions related to why deferred maintenance estimates have fluctuated over time. It also points out the agency shares of deferred maintenance in current and constant dollars.
Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Hardy Vincent, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Health Centers: An Overview (open access)

Federal Health Centers: An Overview

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Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Heisler, Elayne J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Indian Health Service (IHS): An Overview (open access)

The Indian Health Service (IHS): An Overview

This report provides an overview of the IHS and the population it serves.
Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Heisler, Elayne J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reauthorizing the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (open access)

Reauthorizing the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000

This report discusses the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (SRS; P.L. 106-393) enacted by Congress as a temporary, optional program of payments based on historic rather than current revenues.
Date: January 21, 2015
Creator: Hoover, Katie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Trade with Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Partners (open access)

U.S. Trade with Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Partners

This report presents data on U.S. merchandise (goods) trade with its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) partner countries. The data are presented to show bilateral trade balances for individual FTA partners and groups of countries representing such major agreements as the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement and Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) relative to total U.S. trade balances.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program: Overview and Impact of the Affordable Care Act (open access)

The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program: Overview and Impact of the Affordable Care Act

This report discusses the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, which makes federal funds available to metropolitan areas and states to that provide a number of health care services for HIV/AIDS patients.
Date: December 21, 2015
Creator: Johnson, Judith A. & Heisler, Elayne J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized System of Preferences: Background and Renewal Debate (open access)

Generalized System of Preferences: Background and Renewal Debate

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Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Jones, Vivian C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran Sanctions (open access)

Iran Sanctions

This report analyzes U.S. and international sanctions against Iran. U.S. sanctions have been a major feature of U.S. Iran policy since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, but U.N. and worldwide bilateral sanctions on Iran are a relatively recent (post-2006) development.
Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Overview of Constitutional Challenges to NSA Collection Activities (open access)

Overview of Constitutional Challenges to NSA Collection Activities

This report focuses on two main National Security Agency (NSA) collection activities approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978. The first is the bulk collection of telephony metadata for domestic and international telephone calls. The second involves the interception of Internet-based communications.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Liu, Edward C. & Nolan, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House: Member and Committee Requirements (open access)

Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House: Member and Committee Requirements

This report outlines the major administrative responsibilities of Members and committees of the House of Representatives associated with the chamber's earmark disclosure rules. Earmark disclosure rules in both the House and Senate were implemented with the stated intention of bringing more transparency to congressionally directed spending. The administrative responsibilities associated with these rules vary by chamber.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Lynch, Megan S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library