Standard Version, 114th Congress, 2nd Session
Author : CQ Roll Call
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2016-02-28
Category :
ISBN : 9780996934619
Congressional Record
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Law
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How Our Laws are Made
Author : John V. Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Government publications
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Official Congressional Directory 114th Congress, 2015-2016, Convened January 2015
Author : Congress (U S ) Joint Committee on Printing
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780160929977
Book Description
Directory includes directory information for Congress, including officers, committees, and Congressional advisory boards, commissions and other groups, and legislative agencies; for the Executive branch including the Executive office of the president, each Cabinet agency, independent agencies, commissions and boards; for the Judiciary; for the goverment of the District of Columbia; for selected international organizations; for foreign diplomatic Offices in the United States; and for the Congressional press galleries. Includes also a short statistical section and Congressional district maps.
Committees and the Decline of Lawmaking in Congress
Author : Jonathan Lewallen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472132067
Book Description
The public, journalists, and legislators themselves have often lamented a decline in congressional lawmaking in recent years, often blaming party politics for the lack of legislative output. In Committees and the Decline of Lawmaking in Congress, Jonathan Lewallen examines the decline in lawmaking from a new, committee-centered perspective. Lewallen tests his theory against other explanations such as partisanship and an increased demand for oversight with multiple empirical tests and traces shifts in policy activity by policy area using the Policy Agendas Project coding scheme. He finds that because party leaders have more control over the legislative agenda, committees have spent more of their time conducting oversight instead. Partisanship alone does not explain this trend; changes in institutional rules and practices that empowered party leaders have created more uncertainty for committees and contributed to a shift in their policy activities. The shift toward oversight at the committee level combined with party leader control over the voting agenda means that many members of Congress are effectively cut out of many of the institution’s policy decisions. At a time when many, including Congress itself, are considering changes to modernize the institution and keep up with a stronger executive branch, the findings here suggest that strengthening Congress will require more than running different candidates or providing additional resources.
Constitution Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the U. S. (House Rules and Manual)
Author : House of Representatives
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 1514 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780160939570
Book Description
The House Rules and Manual contains the fundamental source material for parliamentary procedure used in the House of Representatives: the Constitution of the United States; applicable provisions of Jefferson's Manual; Rules of the House (as of the date of this preface); provisions of law and resolutions having the force of Rules of the House; and pertinent decisions of the Speakers and other presiding officers of the House and Committee of the Whole interpreting the rules and other procedural authority used in the House of Representatives. The rules for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress were adopted on January 3, 2017, when the House agreed to House Resolution 5. In addition to a series of changes to various standing rules, House Resolution 5 included separate free-standing orders constituting procedures to be followed in the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress. Explanations of the changes to the standing rules appear in the annotations following each rule in the text of this Manual.
Congressional Communication in the Digital Age
Author : Jocelyn Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351754343
Book Description
Communication defines political representation. At the core of the representational relationship lies the interaction between principal and agent; the quality of this relationship is predicated upon the accessibility of effective channels of communication between the constituent and representative. Over the past decade, congressional websites have become the primary way constituents communicate with their members and a prominent place for members to communicate with constituents. Yet, as we move toward the third decade of the 21st century, little work has systematically analyzed this forum as a distinct representational space. In this book, Jocelyn Evans and Jessica Hayden offer a fresh, timely, and mixed-methods approach for understanding how the emergence of virtual offices has changed the representational relationship between constituents and members of Congress. Utilizing strong theoretical foundations, a broad historical perspective, elite interviews, and rich original datasets, Evans and Hayden present evidence that virtual offices operate as a distinct representational space, and they demonstrate that their use has resulted in unprecedented and ill-understood changes in representational behavior. Congressional Communication in the Digital Age contributes to the scholarship on representation theory and its application to the contemporary Congress. It is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in American politics, political communication, and legislative politics.
United States Code 2012 Edition Supplement V
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Page : 1598 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
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House Practice
Author : Charles W. Johnson (III)
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780160937842
Book Description
Published by the Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives. Contains the parliamentary precedents of the United States House of Representatives. The compilation of the parliamentary precedents of the House is as important as any other function of the Office of the Parliamentarian. For each procedural decision made on the floor of the House, the Parliamentarian extracts the proceedings from the daily Congressional Record and writes a parliamentary syllabus. These “headnotes” must be precise, stating the real substance of the decision and its legal rationale in suitably narrow terms. To bridge the span between a digest of decisions and formally published precedents, the Parliamentarian publishes House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House, a condensed compilation of procedures of current application. Other related products: Senate Manual, 2013, Containing the Standing Rules, Orders, Laws, and Resolutions Affecting the Business of the United States Senate is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-071-01569-8 Senate Election Law Guidebook 2010 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-070-07602-0 Examining the Filibuster: Hearings, April 22, 2010; May 19, 2010; June 23, 2010; July 28, 2010; and September 22 and 29, 2010 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-070-07599-6 Congressional Oversight Panel September Oversight Report: Assessing the TARP on the Eve of Its Expiration, September 16, 2010 is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-071-01536-1
Congressional Record
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Law
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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)
