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9781518706295 | 2 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, October 15, 2015), cover price $15.20 | About this edition: U.
Product Description: When federal agencies and programs lack funding after the expiration of full-year or interim appropriations, the agencies and programs experience a funding gap. If funding does not resume in time to continue government operations, then, under the Antideficiency Act, an agency must cease operations, except in certain situations when law authorizes continued activity...read more
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9781508685852 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: When federal agencies and programs lack funding after the expiration of full-year or interim appropriations, the agencies and programs experience a funding gap.
Product Description: In recent years, a number of high-profile incidents of sexual violence at institutions of higher education (IHEs) have heightened congressional and administration scrutiny of the policies and procedures that IHEs currently have in place to address campus sexual violence and how these policies and procedures can be improved...read more
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9781508610717 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In recent years, a number of high-profile incidents of sexual violence at institutions of higher education (IHEs) have heightened congressional and administration scrutiny of the policies and procedures that IHEs currently have in place to address campus sexual violence and how these policies and procedures can be improved.
9781503006812 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 23, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In recent years, a number of high-profile incidents of sexual violence at institutions of higher education (IHEs) have heightened congressional and administration scrutiny of the policies and procedures that IHEs currently have in place to address campus sexual violence and how these policies and procedures can be improved.
Product Description: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act, or ACA) reauthorized funding for numerous existing discretionary grant programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The ACA also created many new discretionary grant programs and provided for each an authorization of appropriations...read more
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9781508610540 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act, or ACA) reauthorized funding for numerous existing discretionary grant programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Product Description: The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) currently administer close to 20 programs and subprograms that are directly or indirectly available to assist producers and landowners who wish to practice conservation on agricultural lands...read more
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9781508641032 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) in the U.
9781507734476 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 12, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) in the U.
Product Description: The Childrenâs Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (H.R. 2, CHIPRA) was first passed in the House on January 14, 2009, and an amended version was passed in the Senate on January 29, 2009. On February 4, 2009, the House passed H...read more
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9781511458757 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The Childrenâs Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (H.
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9781511420914 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99
Department of Defense (DOD) development work on high-energy military lasers, which has been underway for decades, has reached the point where lasers capable of countering certain surface and air targets at ranges of about a mile could be made ready for installation on Navy surface ships over the next few years. More powerful shipboard lasers, which could become ready for installation in subsequent years, could provide Navy surface ships with an ability to counter a wider range of surface and air targets at ranges of up to about 10 miles. The Navy and DOD have conducted development work on three principal types of lasers for potential use on Navy surface ships—fiber solid state lasers (SSLs), slab SSLs, and free electron lasers (FELs). One fiber SSL prototype demonstrator developed by the Navy is the Laser Weapon System (LaWS). The Navy plans to install a LaWS system on the USS Ponce, a ship operating in the Persian Gulf as an interim Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB[I]), in the summer of 2014 to conduct continued evaluation of shipboard lasers in an operational setting. The Navy reportedly anticipates moving to a shipboard laser program of record in “the FY2018 time frame” and achieving an initial operational capability (IOC) with a shipboard laser in FY2020 or FY2021. Although the Navy is developing laser technologies and prototypes of potential shipboard lasers, and has a generalized vision for shipboard lasers, the Navy currently does not yet have a program of record for procuring a production version of a shipboard laser. The possibility of equipping Navy surface ships with lasers in coming years raises a number of potential issues for Congress, including the following:
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9781508700326 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $19.75
9781505875058 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 23, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Department of Defense (DOD) development work on high-energy military lasers, which has been underway for decades, has reached the point where lasers capable of countering certain surface and air targets at ranges of about a mile could be made ready for installation on Navy surface ships over the next few years.
Product Description: Multiyear procurement (MYP) and block buy contracting (BBC) are special contracting mechanisms that Congress permits the Department of Defense (DOD) to use for a limited number of defense acquisition programs. Compared to the standard or default approach of annual contracting, MYP and BBC have the potential for reducing weapon procurement costs by several percent...read more
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9781508708780 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.75 | About this edition: Multiyear procurement (MYP) and block buy contracting (BBC) are special contracting mechanisms that Congress permits the Department of Defense (DOD) to use for a limited number of defense acquisition programs.
Product Description: U.S. attention to terrorism in Latin America intensified in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, with an increase in bilateral and regional cooperation. In its 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism (issued in April 2014), the State Department maintained that the majority of terrorist attacks in the Western Hemisphere were committed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)...read more
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9781511410748 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: U.
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9781508639824 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A "pit" is the plutonium "trigger" of a thermonuclear weapon.
Product Description: This report provides an overview of transnational security issues related to patterns of interaction among international terrorist and crime groups. In addition, the report discusses the U.S. governmentâs perception of and response to the threat...read more
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9781511458931 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: This report provides an overview of transnational security issues related to patterns of interaction among international terrorist and crime groups.
Product Description: The Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950 (P.L. 81-774, 50 U.S.C. Appx §2061 et seq.), as amended, confers upon the President a broad set of authorities to influence domestic industry in the interest of national defense. The authorities can be used across the federal government to shape the domestic industrial base so that, when called upon, it is capable of providing essential materials and goods needed for the national defense...read more
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9781508699750 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950 (P.
Product Description: Arms control and nonproliferation efforts are two of the tools that have occasionally been used to implement U.S. national security strategy. Although some believe these tools do little to restrain the behavior of U.S. adversaries, while doing too much to restrain U...read more
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9781508686873 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $12.20 | About this edition: Arms control and nonproliferation efforts are two of the tools that have occasionally been used to implement U.
Product Description: There are 737 informal Member organizations listed in the Congressional Yellow Book or registered with the Committee on House Administration. According to self-reported information contained in the Congressional Yellow Book, the Houseâs 650 informal Member organizations had from 1 to 315 members, with an average membership of 25, and the Senateâs 87 informal Member organizations had from 1 to 61 members, with an average membership of 14...read more
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9781508901853 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: There are 737 informal Member organizations listed in the Congressional Yellow Book or registered with the Committee on House Administration.
Product Description: Article III of the Constitution established the judicial branch of the United States, staffing the branch with life-tenured and salary-protected judges. Amongst the powers of the federal judiciary is the power of âjudicial reviewââthat is, the power to invalidate the acts of other branches of government and the states that contravene the Constitution...read more
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9781508640509 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Article III of the Constitution established the judicial branch of the United States, staffing the branch with life-tenured and salary-protected judges.
Product Description: Sales of locally produced foods comprise a small but growing part of U.S. agricultural sales. USDA estimates that farm-level value of local food sales totaled about $4.8 billion in 2008, or about 1.6% of the U.S. market for agricultural products...read more
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9781511411431 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.20 | About this edition: Sales of locally produced foods comprise a small but growing part of U.
Product Description: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank or the Bank), a wholly owned federal government corporation, is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the U.S. government. Its mission is to assist in the financing of U...read more
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9781508640462 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank or the Bank), a wholly owned federal government corporation, is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the U.
9781505877021 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 22, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank or the Bank), a wholly owned federal government corporation, is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the U.
9781505321609 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 26, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank or the Bank), a wholly owned federal government corporation, is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the U.
Product Description: The Navy has been procuring Virginia (SSN-774) class nuclear-powered attack submarines since FY1998. The two Virginia-class boats requested for procurement in FY2015 are to be the 21st and 22nd boats in the class. The 10 Virginia-class boats programmed for procurement in FY2014-FY2018 (two per year for five years) are being procured under a multiyear-procurement (MYP) contract...read more
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9781508709138 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The Navy has been procuring Virginia (SSN-774) class nuclear-powered attack submarines since FY1998.
Product Description: The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the nationâs highest award for military valor. It is presented by the President in the name of Congress and is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor. Since its first presentation in 1863, close to 3,500 MOHs have been awarded...read more
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9781508610755 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the nationâs highest award for military valor.
9781505450736, titled "Medal of Honor Recipients: 1979-2014" | Createspace Independent Pub, December 2, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the nation’s highest award for military valor.
9781503089747 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 29, 2014, cover price $19.95
Product Description: Student loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs provide borrowers a means of having all or part of their student loan debt forgiven or repaid in exchange for work or service in specific fields or professions or following a prolonged period during which their student loan debt burden is high relative to their income...read more
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9781508686347 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Student loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs provide borrowers a means of having all or part of their student loan debt forgiven or repaid in exchange for work or service in specific fields or professions or following a prolonged period during which their student loan debt burden is high relative to their income.
Product Description: Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act, or ACA) is having a significant impact on federal mandatoryâalso known as directâspending. Most of the projected spending under the law is for expanding health insurance coverage...read more
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9781508700272 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act, or ACA) is having a significant impact on federal mandatoryâalso known as directâspending.
Product Description: This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its Armed Forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes. It was compiled in part from various older lists and is intended primarily to provide a rough survey of past U...read more
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9781508687023 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 26, 2015, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its Armed Forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes.
9781502506122 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 15, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its Armed Forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes.
Product Description: Some states require voters at a polling place to produce identification before casting a ballot. Such requirements have emerged as a controversial issue in recent elections, particularly requirements in some states for photographic identification (photo ID), and they are the focus of this report...read more
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9781512370973 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2015, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: Some states require voters at a polling place to produce identification before casting a ballot.
9781503272330 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 10, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Some states require voters at a polling place to produce identification before casting a ballot.
9781503177239 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 3, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Some states require voters at a polling place to produce identification before casting a ballot.
Product Description: Several West African countries are currently grappling with an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD). Here in the United States, where Ebola is not endemic, a handful of EVD cases have been diagnosed, and domestic transmission of the virus has occurred in only two cases to date...read more
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9781512249965 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Several West African countries are currently grappling with an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD).
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