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Germaneness Rules and Bicameral Relations in the U. S. Congress

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1982
The legislative procedures of the U. S. House and Senate differ in a number of fundamental respects, and procedural conflicts may arise in the process of resolving policy differences. One important difference between the two chambers concerns the germaneness of amendments. House rules require that all floor amendments be germane; Senate rules impose no
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Presidents and the Conservative Coalition in the U. S. Congress

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1983
This paper examines interactions of six modem presidents with the conservative coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats in Congress, covering the years 1953 to 1980. Presidential party is shown to be strongly related to rates of policy agreement. The effect of coalition size is considered. Congress generally influences a president's program more
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Institutional Realignment: The Composition of the U. S. Congress

The Western Political Quarterly, 1990
A CCORDING to James Sundquist (1983) scholars have generally agreed that realignments have occurred at certain broadly defined periods throughout American history. For example, scholars have generally agreed that critical realignments occurred during the 1850s, the 1890s, and during the late 1920s or early 1930s.
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Reconstitutive Change in the U. S. Congress: The Early Senate, 1789-1841

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1989
Reconstitutive congressional change is a marked and enduring shift in the fundamental dimensions of a chamber: its committees, parties, rules, members, and leaders, as well as its relations with the executive, the constituency, and the other chamber. The occurrence of such change depends on the confluence of five factors: the congressional agenda, the ...
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Recent Developments in Analytical Models of Voting in the U. S. Congress

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1988
This paper surveys recent developments in analytical models of roll-call voting in the U.S. Congress. Two controversies are analyzed in the paper: the one over the number of evaluative dimensions that underlie congressional voting and the other over the relative importance of the legislator's ideology and the objective economic interests of the ...
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Cosponsorship in the U. S. Congress

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1997
Rick K. Wilson, Cheryl D. Young
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Cash Flows: Leadership PACs in the U. S. Congress from 1992 - 2008

2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010
The Republican leadership in the U.S. Congress pursued aggressive strategies of partisan discipline from 1994-2006, during which they held the majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Anecdotally, the Republican leadership built tight donor networks, demanding and rewarding partisan loyalty from rank and file elected officials.
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Assessment of the U. S. Marine Transportation System: A Report to Congress

1999
Discusses the collaborative effort to assess the adequacy of the Nation's marine transportation system (including ports, waterways, harbor approach channels, and their intermodal connections) to operate in a safe, efficient, secure, and environmentally sound manner.
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The Japanese Diet and the U. S. Congress.

Pacific Affairs, 1983
Michael W. Donnelly, Francis R. Valeo, Charles E. Morrison   +2 more
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Human Rights and U. S. Foreign Policy: Congress Reconsidered

Human Rights Quarterly, 1989
Howard Tolley, David P. Forsythe
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