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The U.S. Senate and Federalism Policy in the 96th and 97th Congresses
CrossRef Listing of Deleted DOIs, 1987Although the Congress of the United States has a major influence on American federalism, there has been little systematic attention given to what factors influence congressional voting on federalism issues. This article is an initial effort to address this question.
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All the President's Senators: Presidential Copartisans and the Allocation of Federal Grants
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2016Previous scholarship argues that House members' partisan relationship to the president is among the most important determinants of the share of federal dollars they bring home to their constituents. Do presidential politics also shape distributive outcomes in the Senate?
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Senatorial Discourtesy: The Senate's Use of Delay to Shape the Federal Judiciary
Political Research Quarterly, 2002Legislators have long recognized that delaying tactics are powerful tools for preventing the passage of laws they deem unsatisfactory. Because the U.S. Congress has several deadlines built into its session, when committee chairmen or individual members delay the scheduling of hearings, markups, or executive business meetings, it can have a devastating ...
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U.S. Senate Calls for External Reviews of Big Federal Digs
Science, 2006Last week, the U.S. Senate voted to require the use of expert panels to evaluate the engineering analyses, economic and environmental assumptions, and other aspects of projects in the Army Corps of Engineers9 $2-billion-a-year construction portfolio. (Read more.)
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Senator Robert Owen of Oklahoma and the Federal Reserve's formative years [PDF]
Economic Review, 2013 U.S. Senator Robert Owen of Oklahoma played a key role in the formation of the Federal Reserve in the early twentieth century. He championed the creation of a quasi-public central bank with a decentralized structure. Author Chad Wilkerson explores how Senator Owen contributed to the Fed's early development and sought a Fed structure that would avoid ...
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A Dead Senator Tells No Lies: Seniority and the Distribution of Federal Benefits
American Journal of Political Science, 1990Empirical studies of distributive politics fail to offer any systematic evidence of a relationship between committee seniority in Congress and the geographic distribution of federal benefits. These findings are at odds with many descriptive accounts of the seniority norm for which such a relationship is a presupposition.
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LEGAL REGULATION OF THE IMMUNITY OF DEPUTIES AND SENATORS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Vestnik of Lobachevsky University of Nizhni Novgorod, 2021openaire +1 more source