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Student's guide to Congress
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Table of Contents
From the Book - Regular Print
List of illustrations
Reader's guide
About the advisory editor
Preface
Historical milestones of the U.S. Congress, 1789-2008 : a timeline
pt. 1. Essays
Members of Congress : who gets elected?
Who elects them?
The way Congress works : how does an idea become a law?
Who is running America, Congress or the President?
pt. 2. Congress A to Z
Abscam
Ad hoc committees
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
African Americans in Congress
Decision makers : Barack Obama (1961- )
The Albany Plan of Union
Amending the Constitution
Justice for all : the Equal Rights Amendment
Spotlight : Amendments not ratified by the states
Appropriations bills
Army-McCarthy hearings
Articles of Confederation
Asian Americans in Congress
Decision makers : Patsy Mink (1927-2002)
Balanced Budget Amendment
Point/counterpoint : for and against a balanced budget amendment
Bicameralism
Bill of Rights
Bills, Private
Bipartisanship
Calendars, House of Representatives
Calendars, Senate
Campaign finance
Point/counterpoint : should Congressional elections be publicly financed?
Capitol
Spotlight : the Capitol Police
Capitol, Architect of the
Spotlight : Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903)
Capitol subways
Caucuses
Censure
Census
Checks and balances
Citizenship and naturalization
Spotlight : who is a citizen?
Justice for all : Congressional authority over aliens
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Civil rights issues and lobbyists
Classes of Senators
Cloakroom
Spotlight : smoking in Congress
Cloture
Commerce clause
Committees
Spotlight : loss of committee positions
Conference committees
Confirmation power of the Senate
Congress and commerce
Congress, Constitutional origins of
Decision makers : Robert C. Byrd (1917- )
Congressional black caucus
Decision makers : Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)
Congressional Hispanic caucus
Decision makers : Baltasar Corrada (1935- ) and Herman Badillo (1939- )
Congressional immunity
Congressional investigations
Spotlight : politics and Congressional investigations
Congressional office buildings
Congressional pay and benefits
Spotlight : the Madison Amendment
Congressional Record
Congressional Research Service
Congressional staff
Congressional travel allowances
Congressional voting methods
Connecticut Compromise
Decision makers : Roger Sherman (1721-1793)
Constituents and Congress
Constitution of the United States
Constitutional Amendments affecting the Presidency
Constitutional Convention
Contempt of Congress
Continental Congresses
Declaration of Independence
District of Columbia
Elections, House of Representatives
Decision makers : Henry Clay (1777-1852)
Elections, Senatorial
Spotlight : disputed Senate elections
Electoral college and electors
Ethics, Congressional
Exclusion of members of Congress
Expressed powers
Federalism
Federalist, The
Decision makers : James Madison (1751-1836)
Filibuster
Foreign policy powers
Point/counterpoint : should Congressional leaders conduct foreign policy?
Franking
Gavel
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
Hispanic Americans in Congress
Decision makers : Romualdo Pacheco (1831-1899)
House of Representatives
Decision makers : Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973)
How a bill becomes law
Impeachment power
Spotlight : Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) and Bill Clinton (1946- )
Impeachment rules, Senate
Implied powers
Impoundment
Interns, Congressional
Iran-Contra hearings
Iraq War Resolution (2002)
Spotlight : no unlimited force
Joint committees
Joint session
Judicial review
Decision makers : Marbury v. Madison
Legislative Reorganization Act (1946)
Library of Congress
Spotlight : Thomas Jefferson's library
Limited government
Line-item veto
Lobbying and Congress
Mace
Majority leader
Media and Congress
Midterm elections
Minority leader
Missouri Compromise
New Jersey Plan
Decision makers : William Paterson (1745-1806)
New states, Admission of
Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
Non-voting members of Congress
Oath of office, Congressional
Pages, Congressional
Parliamentarian
Party whips
Decision makers : Joe Cannon (1836-1926)
Patronage
Justice for all : rise and fall of the spoils system
Political parties and Congress
Popular sovereignty
Pork-barrel spending
Power of the purse
Power to raise an army
Justice for all : the draft or a professional military?
Power to select the President
Point/counterpoint : should the electoral college be abolished?
President and Congress
Justice for all : Congress and executive privileges
President pro tempore
Public interest groups
Reapportionment
Redistricting
Decision makers : the census : who should be counted?
Rules, House and Senate
Senate
Decision makers : Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861)
Senatorial courtesy
Seniority system
Separation of powers
Sergeant at arms
Sessions of Congress
Spotlight : the early Senate
Seventeenth Amendment (1913)
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Decision makers : Nancy Pelosi (1940- )
Spoils system
Supreme Court and Congress
Justice for all : court packing
Teapot Dome Scandal
Television coverage of Congress
Terms and sessions
Thirteen Colonies, Settling of the
Treaty power
Spotlight : the Kyoto Protocol
Decision makers : the House and the treaty power
Two-thirds rule
Vetoes and veto overrides
Vice President
Decision makers : Vice President as tie breaker
Virginia Plan
Decision makers : Edmund Randolph (1753-1813)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
War powers
Decision makers : Congress vs. the Vietnam War
War Powers Resolution (1973)
Watergate hearings
Whitewater investigations
Women in Congress
Decision makers : Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947- )
Zone whips.
pt. 3. Primary source library
United States Constitution, Article I, Sections 1-7, 1789
United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, 1789
United States Constitution, Article II, Sections 2, 3, and 4, 1789
South Carolina Electoral Vote Document, 1789
Twelfth Amendment, 1804
Henry Clay in Support of the War of 1812
Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824
House Procedure for the Election of John Quincy Adams, 1825
Resolution Annexing Texas to the United States, 1845
Article of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson, 1868
Congressional Government, 1885
Seventeenth Amendment, 1913
Point/counterpoint : should the Seventeenth Amendment be repealed?
Nineteenth Amendment, 1920
Citizens Seek Changes in Volstead Act, 1932
Prohibition Repealed, 1933
Twentieth Amendment, 1933
U.S. Declaration of War on Japan, 1941
U.S. Declaration of War on Germany, 1941
McCarthy Telegram to Truman, 1950
Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1954
Twenty-Fifth Amendment, 1967
War Powers Resolution, 1973
Articles of Impeachment Against Richard M. Nixon, 1974
Articles of impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton, 1998
Letter to President Bush Urging Him to End the War in Iraq, 2007
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, 2007
Using primary sources
Glossary
Selected bibliography
General index.
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