Author: Charles Grassley
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Keywords: security, retirement, congressional, hearing, social, rethinking, longer, retiring, earlier, living
Published: 2000-05
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0788186868
ISBN-13: 9780788186868

Authors:Stanley B. Parsons, Michael J. Dubin, Karen Toombs P
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: districts, congressional, states, united
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1990-05-21
List price: $159.95
ISBN-10: 0313264821
ISBN-13: 9780313264825

"Three census decades arranged alphabetically by state are covered by this volume, with a total of 14 variables (from percent of foreign born to percent of manufacturing employees) presented in tabular format. . . . Researchers studying legislative behavior and aggregate election analysis will find this series indispensable." Choice

Author: William E. Granstaff
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: praeger, studies, political, communication, propaganda, dictatorship, democratic, spirit, congressional, deliberation, losing
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1999-08-30
List price: $106.95
ISBN-10: 0275965678
ISBN-13: 9780275965679

Granstaff explains why deliberation on the House and Senate floors is absolutely necessary to the American constitutional system’s democratic spirit. After analyzing congressional discourses regarding the use of troops in Lebanon, the Persian Gulf, and Somalia, he raises profound questions about the democratic legitimacy of Congress’s legislative process, when true deliberation is replaced by partisan posturing.

Author: David C. King
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: politics, political, economy, series, american, jurisdiction, wars, congressional, committees, claim, turf
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 1997-09-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226436241
ISBN-13: 9780226436241

For most bills in American legislatures, the issue of turf—or which committee has jurisdiction over a bill—can make all the difference. Turf governs the flow and fate of all legislation. In this innovative study, David C. King explains how jurisdictional areas for committees are created and changed in Congress. Political scientists have long maintained that jurisdictions are relatively static, changing only at times of dramatic reforms. Not so, says King. Combining quantitative evidence with interviews and case studies, he shows how on-going turf wars make jurisdictions fluid. According to

Author: E. Scott Adler
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: politics, political, economy, series, american, system, reforms, reelection, house, committee, congressional
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0226007553
ISBN-13: 9780226007557

For decades, advocates of congressional reforms have repeatedly attempted to clean up the House committee system, which has been called inefficient, outmoded, unaccountable, and even corrupt. Yet these efforts result in little if any change, as members of Congress who are generally satisfied with existing institutions repeatedly obstruct what could fairly be called innocuous reforms. What lies behind the House’s resistance to change? Challenging recent explanations of this phenomenon, Scott Adler contends that legislators resist rearranging committee powers and jurisdictions for the same

Author: Government Printing Office (U.S.)
Publisher: Superintendent of Documents
Keywords: schedule, volumes, 105th, congress, lists, numerical, states, congressional, serial, catalog, united
Number of Pages: 724
Published: 2009-01-30
List price: $67.00
ISBN-10: 0160821258
ISBN-13: 9780160821257

Author:
Publisher: Joint Committee on Printing
Keywords: convened, january, paperback, congress, 110th, congressional, directory, official
Number of Pages: 1233
Published: 2007-11-23
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 016078879X
ISBN-13: 9780160788796