Legislative Branch
epub |eng | 2004-03-13 | Author:Kathleen Flake

This is what made Joseph Smith the Latter-day Saints’ “perfect man” worthy of memorialization in polished granite. He constituted the ideal seeker, the petitioner who becomes a prophet by means ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Jennifer Steinhauer

Six Crisis at the Border I will never stop speaking truth to power. —Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Katie Porter stood on the House floor, about to strike one of her ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 11,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Dambisa Moyo

TO BE CERTAIN, THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS of democratic capitalism are unmistakable. It has proven itself, historically, to be a peerless tool for growth. During the past fifty years, US income levels ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:J. Brooks Flippen [Flippen, J. Brooks]

CHAPTER 14 The Struggle for Unity THE CARTER YEARS (1978–1980) No one prepared harder for the 1978 congressional elections than Jim Wright. As the year began, the press suggested that ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-19 | Author:John T. Shaw

V By all accounts, Lugar has a calm, steady, and placid temperament. Courtly and polite, he is well liked and respected in the Senate. He is not, to be sure, ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Littlefield & David Nexon

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 March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:James Grant

Chapter 15 Great Plains Land Bubble REED WAS WORRYING about the 1888 elections even before he was officially in them. News that the hometown Republicans had selected him as their ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-07 | Author:Frances E. Lee [Lee, Frances E.]

The Role and Function of Party Communicators Foremost among their roles, party communicators are coordinators. If the goal is to “drive the narrative,” they see it as the first order ...
( Category: Elections March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Dorf

9 THREE YEARS OF THE CULTURE WARS June 1989. The two 8x10 glossy photographs, reproductions of recently exhibited works of art, lay side by side on the round, leather-inlaid conference ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-23 | Author:Hendrickson, Ryan C.

John Kerry and War Powers A decorated veteran, John Kerry first gained national prominence as an articulate and outspoken critic of the U.S. military presence in Vietnam.1 In 1971, he ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-02 | Author:Stephen Kantrowitz [Kantrowitz, Stephen]

Education and Citizenship When the delegates to the constitutional convention assembled in Columbia in late September 1895, all eyes focused on the committee on the suffrage, chaired by U.S. Senator ...
( Category: Legislative Branch February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:James Reston

Nineteen Convictions Minus One. National Portrait Gallery © 1973 by Philip Lief and Marcel Feigel July 15, 1974 Lunch today with ACLU’s legal director, Chuck Morgan, and Jack Nelson of ...
( Category: Legislative Branch February 28,2020 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2010-05-30 | Author:Donald A. Ritchie [Ritchie, Donald A.]

Minority muscle in the Senate Representatives who get elected to the Senate need to forget most of what they learned about the rules of the House, since the two operate ...
( Category: Legislative Branch February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Draper

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Side Pockets on a Cow “We’re celebrating a great day—the American auto industry is coming back!” John Dingell stood outside in the middle of a makeshift car lot ...
( Category: Legislative Branch February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-20 | Author:Christine Pelosi

Calling on them to be confident that she had their backs, she said “I say to you what I say to my members: I would rather win the vote on ...
( Category: Legislative Branch February 21,2020 )