Source: C-SPAN. According to House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House, "The motion for the ...
Morton Rosenberg, When Congress Comes Calling: A Study on the Principles, Practices, and Pragmatics of Legislative Inquiry (The Constitution Project, ...
"Congress was intended to be the most important institution in our national government.... Congress’s centrality in American political life is ...
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1789-91 and 1793-95. Source: Wikipedia. The U.S. Constitution declares, "The House ...
Sarah Burns, The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism (University of Kansas Press, 2019). Buy ...
Convergence, a not-for-profit organization, convened various individuals from a range of political and policy perspectives to figure out a new ...
"When... annual appropriations acts are not enacted by the beginning of the fiscal year (October 1), one or more continuing ...
Campaigns cost money---for travel, for signs, for advertisements, voter data, etc. This means members of Congress have to devote time ...
Article I, section 9, clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution declares, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but ...
Kathy Goldschmidt and Bradley Sinkaus, Job Description for a Member of Congress, Congressional Management Foundation, 2018. Note: The job description offered ...
Mark Sobol and Leonard Steinhorn, Congress at a Crossroads: Retiring Members of Congress Tell Us What's Right, What's Wrong–And How ...
George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003). Buy ...
Louis Fisher, Congress: Protecting Individual Rights (University of Kansas Press, 2016). Buy a copy. Which branch of government comes to mind ...
Carl Levin and Elise J. Bean, "Defining Congressional Oversight and Measuring Its Effectiveness," 64 Wayne L. Rev. 2, 2018, pp. ...
You can find data for legislative branch spening in the data set compiled by the First Branch Forecast, which has ...
John Lawrence, The Class of '74: Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Buy ...
J.D. Rackey, "What Is the Status of the Reforms Proposed by the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress?" (Sunwater ...
Fergus M. Bordewich, The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government ...
In 2019, the American Political Science Association (APSA) supported a scholarly effort led by Frances Lee (Princeton), Eric Schickler (UC-Berkeley), ...
You'll find the answer in this video. The Sunwater Institute's Matt Chervenak interviews Former House Parliamentarian, Tom Wickham. The answer ...
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