Carl Levin and Elise J. Bean, "Defining Congressional Oversight and Measuring Its Effectiveness," 64 Wayne L. Rev. 2, 2018, pp. ...
You can find data for legislative branch spening in the data set compiled by the First Branch Forecast, which has ...
John Lawrence, The Class of '74: Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Buy ...
J.D. Rackey, "What Is the Status of the Reforms Proposed by the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress?" (Sunwater ...
Fergus M. Bordewich, The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government ...
In 2019, the American Political Science Association (APSA) supported a scholarly effort led by Frances Lee (Princeton), Eric Schickler (UC-Berkeley), ...
You'll find the answer in this video. The Sunwater Institute's Matt Chervenak interviews Former House Parliamentarian, Tom Wickham. The answer ...
The House of Representatives established the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress (SCMC) on January 4, 2019. It was ...
Although the US Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse, today a number of laws and arrangements have empowered ...
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The U.S. Congress rarely overturns elections to either of its chambers. Legislators tend to followa norm of deference to election ...
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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) in its current incarnation was established in 1970. Congress designed the nonpartisan agency to provide ...
In 1994, Congress ceased appropriations for its Office of Technology Asssessment (OTA). The agency's 120 nonpartisan staff were directed to ...
Committees are supposed to be the powerhouses of policymaking and oversight. They are the cohorts of legislators who gain expertise, ...
In this report, six authors comment on various aspects of Congress and offer proposals to improve the House and Senate. ...
The topic of today’s episode is, “Are earmarks good or bad?” My guest is Zachary Courser, a visiting assistant professor of government ...
Congress.gov is the go-to source for official information on the legislative process. There you can find bills in the current ...
This book is a bold defense of our nation's legislature and its ability to work through the country's deepest divisions, ...
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