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Historical milestones of the U.S. Congress, 1789-2008 : a timeline
Members of Congress : who gets elected?
The way Congress works : how does an idea become a law?
Who is running America, Congress or the President?
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
African Americans in Congress
Decision makers : Barack Obama (1961- )
Amending the Constitution
Justice for all : the Equal Rights Amendment
Spotlight : Amendments not ratified by the states
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
Calendars, House of Representatives
Point/counterpoint : should Congressional elections be publicly financed?
Spotlight : the Capitol Police
Capitol, Architect of the
Spotlight : Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903)
Citizenship and naturalization
Spotlight : who is a citizen?
Justice for all : Congressional authority over aliens
Civil rights issues and lobbyists
Spotlight : smoking in Congress
Spotlight : loss of committee positions
Confirmation power of the Senate
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 investigations
Spotlight : politics and Congressional investigations
Congressional office buildings
Congressional pay and benefits
Spotlight : the Madison Amendment
Congressional Research Service
Congressional travel allowances
Congressional voting methods
Decision makers : Roger Sherman (1721-1793)
Constituents and Congress
Constitution of the United States
Constitutional Amendments affecting the Presidency
Constitutional Convention
Declaration of Independence
Elections, House of Representatives
Decision makers : Henry Clay (1777-1852)
Spotlight : disputed Senate elections
Electoral college and electors
Exclusion of members of Congress
Decision makers : James Madison (1751-1836)
Point/counterpoint : should Congressional leaders conduct foreign policy?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
Hispanic Americans in Congress
Decision makers : Romualdo Pacheco (1831-1899)
Decision makers : Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973)
Spotlight : Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) and Bill Clinton (1946- )
Impeachment rules, Senate
Iraq War Resolution (2002)
Spotlight : no unlimited force
Decision makers : Marbury v. Madison
Legislative Reorganization Act (1946)
Spotlight : Thomas Jefferson's library
Decision makers : William Paterson (1745-1806)
Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
Non-voting members of Congress
Oath of office, Congressional
Decision makers : Joe Cannon (1836-1926)
Justice for all : rise and fall of the spoils system
Political parties and Congress
Justice for all : the draft or a professional military?
Power to select the President
Point/counterpoint : should the electoral college be abolished?
Justice for all : Congress and executive privileges
Decision makers : the census : who should be counted?
Decision makers : Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861)
Spotlight : the early Senate
Seventeenth Amendment (1913)
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Decision makers : Nancy Pelosi (1940- )
Supreme Court and Congress
Justice for all : court packing
Television coverage of Congress
Thirteen Colonies, Settling of the
Spotlight : the Kyoto Protocol
Decision makers : the House and the treaty power
Vetoes and veto overrides
Decision makers : Vice President as tie breaker
Decision makers : Edmund Randolph (1753-1813)
Decision makers : Congress vs. the Vietnam War
War Powers Resolution (1973)
Whitewater investigations
Decision makers : Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947- )
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
Henry Clay in Support of the War of 1812
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