A Speaker of the House vacated as imagined by DALL-E. The motion to vacate, as it is commonly called, is a ...
Matthew Green is the coauthor (with Douglas Harris) of Choosing the Leader: Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
By John Haskell Members of Congress are on the go full-time and aren’t paid enough to qualify for a home loan ...
A great deal of lawmaking occurs in the form of regulation. This paper observes that Congress has not given itself ...
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) chairs the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party. He is a ...
Kevin R. Kosar, "Reasserting Congress in Regulatory Policy," in Adam J. White, Oren Cass, and Kevin R. Kosar, Unleashing Opportunity: Policy ...
Every two years brings a new Congress, and every two years the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service publishes a report detailing ...
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 ...
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