The American CongressThe American Congress provides the most insightful, up-to-date treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and nationally-recognized scholarship, The American Congress presents a crisp introduction to all major features of Congress: its party and committee systems, leadership, and voting and floor activity. The American Congress has the most in-depth discussions of the place of the president, the courts, and interest groups in congressional policy made available in a text. The text blends an emphasis on recent developments in congressional politics with a clear discussion of the rules of the game, the history of key features of Congress, and stories from recent Congresses that bring politics to life. No other text weaves into the discussion of the important ideas of recent political science research. The book includes the most comprehensive list of suggested readings and Internet resources on Congress. |
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Contents
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Members Goals Resources and Strategies | 121 |
Parties and Leaders | 153 |
The Standing Committees | 197 |
The Floor and Voting | 241 |
Congress and the President | 271 |
Congress and the Courts | 313 |
Congress Lobbyists and Interest Groups | 341 |
Congress and Budget Politics | 367 |
Notes | 393 |
Suggested Readings | 417 |
Index | 433 |
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Page 104 - Affairs, the bill shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall be In order to consider the amendment In the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on...
Page 246 - Judiciary, the bill shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. At the conclusion of the consideration of the bill for amendment, the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit.
Page 341 - Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people "to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Page 246 - After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule...
Page 396 - Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann, and Michael J. Malbin, Vital Statistics on Congress: 1995-1996 (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1996).
Page 54 - To put it another way, if a group of planners sat down and tried to design a pair of American national assemblies with the goal of serving members' electoral needs year in and year out, they would be hard pressed to improve on what exists.
Page 104 - After general debate, which shall be confined to the bill and shall continue not to exceed hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on , the bill shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule.
Page 246 - The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without Intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
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| Title | The American Congress |
| Authors | Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen |
| Edition | 4, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1139446991, 9781139446990 |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / American Government / General Political Science / General Social Science / Regional Studies |
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