Author : Bruce Wetterau
Publisher : CQ-Roll Call Group Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Budget
ISBN : 9781568023823
Answers to frequently asked questions about Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, election, and other aspects of the American political scene in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format.
Author : Bruce Wetterau
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781568025490
This one-volume desk reference provides quick answers to the most frequently asked questions about all aspects of U.S. government, including elections, Congress, the presidency, and the Supreme Court. Includes many new questions such as: What was the Teapot Dome scandal? What are the requirements for being a senator? How did the two-party system develop? What was the largest presidential landslide? Cross-references, a bibliography, and an index aid research.
Author : Bruce Wetterau
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 1999-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This book presents over 500 answers to questions about state government, including state history, the governorship, legislatures, campaigns and elections, and state courts.
Author : Bruce Wetterau
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Provides answers to over five hundred commonly asked questions about state government; grouped in the categories of the states, governorship, legislatures, campaigns and elections, state courts, and facts and figures; and includes profiles of individual states.
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Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Legislation
ISBN :
Author : Walter Kravitz
Publisher : CQ-Roll Call Group Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Legislation
ISBN : 9781568023724
From Absence of a Quorum to Zone Whip, this handy desk reference volume aides librarians, students, and adults with more than 900 entries. For example: Hopper - a box on the clerk's desk in the House into which members deposit proposed bills. Absolute Majority - A vote requiring approval by a majority of all members of a house rather than a majority of members present and voting. Queen of the Hill Rule - A House rule allowing votes on a series of amendments to a bill but directs that the amendment with the most votes wins, even if others also received a majority.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Legislation
ISBN :
Author : Congressional Quarterly, inc
Publisher : Cq Press
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780871875846
Widely regarded as the finest single volume reference available on the U.S. Congress, Guide to Congress offers depth and comprehensive detail on the origins, history, powers, procedures, and politics of the legislative branch. This fourth edition chronicles the upheaval that reshaped the political landscape in the wake of the Watergate scandal and describes the unforeseen consequences of Watergate-era reforms.
Author : Congressional Quarterly, inc
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Legislation
ISBN : 9780871873798
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Law
ISBN :
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
