Legislative Branch
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Julian Pleasants [Pleasants, Julian]

1952—The Final Year Except for the 1952 gubernatorial and presidential races and some very controversial firings, Scott’s last year in office was somewhat anticlimactic after the turmoil of the three ...
( Category: Legislative Branch May 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-11 | Author:Jeffrey E Cohen [Cohen, Jeffrey E]

( Category: Legislative Branch May 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-31 | Author:R Douglas Arnold [Arnold, R Douglas]

Overall Patterns Table 5.4 summarizes how newspapers covered representatives’ participation in various law-making activities—introducing bills, participating in committees, and providing leadership. A few newspapers covered these activities with fair frequency. ...
( Category: Legislative Branch May 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Alec MacGillis [MacGillis, Alec]

* * * In Inez, the traces of the Martin County Coal slurry spill are still everywhere. The embankment along meandering Coldwater Creek, once lined with cherry and walnut trees, ...
( Category: Legislative Branch April 30,2022 )
pdf |en | | Author: C. Lawrence Evans

( Category: Legislative Branch March 21,2022 )
pdf |en | | Author: Michel L. Balinski, H. Peyton Young

( Category: Legislative Branch February 25,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Lapinski, John S.

CONCLUSION This chapter has shown that policy issue substance is a critical component of any understanding of lawmaking. The fact that members clearly possess distinct preferences across policy issue areas ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sherrod Brown

* * * WEALTHY BUSINESS INTERESTS dominated southern politics more than in any region of the country. In 1895 a Massachusetts company opened a factory in Alabama to escape strikes ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:Robert G. Kaiser [KAISER, ROBERT G.]

CHAPTER 14 THE NEW TECHNOLOGY OF POLITICS Robert Byrd was the chairman of the Appropriations Committee because Democrats in the Senate and House had benefited from two good election cycles ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Littlefield

THE SEARCH FOR ONE “BIG IDEA” On October 16, in preparation for the pending budget impasse, Kennedy invited several political consultants to his home to discuss the Democratic strategy. (The ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-03 | Author:Bill Bradley [Bradley, Bill]

After the Homestead Act, which gave a settler a hundred and sixty acres of public land if he farmed it, the corruption and inefficiency continued: The use of “dummy entrymen” ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 3,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Joseph Crespino [Crespino, Joseph]

10 ANNUS MIRABILIS (1968) On June 22, 1968, Strom Thurmond endorsed Richard Nixon to be the next president of the United States. The announcement dumbfounded political observers in South Carolina ...
( Category: Legislative Branch August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Barney Frank

8 DEFENDING CLINTON Ever since 1993, I’d been defending both Clintons from Republican attacks on their integrity. Serving on the Financial Services Committee, I observed the investigation into the Clintons’ ...
( Category: LGBT August 2,2020 )