Congressional Record
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1324 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1324 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alice Gram |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Each issue is devoted to a controversial issue before the Congress.
Author | : James M. Curry |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-09-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 022628185X |
Political science scholar James M. Curry explores the inner workings of Congress’s House of Representatives in this thought-provoking analysis. The 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to more than 1,100 pages, yet it wasn’t even given to Congress in its final form until thirteen hours before debate was set to begin, and it was passed twenty-eight hours later. How are representatives expected to digest so much information in such a short time? The answer? They aren’t. With Legislating in the Dark, James M. Curry reveals that the availability of information about legislation is a key tool through which Congressional leadership exercises power. Through a deft mix of legislative analysis, interviews, and participant observation, Curry shows how congresspersons—lacking the time and resources to study bills deeply themselves—are forced to rely on information and cues from their leadership. By controlling their rank-and-file’s access to information, Congressional leaders are able to emphasize or bury particular items, exploiting their information advantage to push the legislative agenda in directions that they and their party prefer. Offering an unexpected new way of thinking about party power and influence, Legislating in the Dark will spark substantial debate in political science. “Curry brings fresh insight and a breadth of evidence to bear on the role of information in lawmaking, including extensive interviews with legislators and staff and in-depth case studies of several pieces of legislation. Engagingly written, the book will enhance our understandings of congressional lawmaking and leadership and will be of interest to scholars of legislative studies and public policy.” —Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Author | : Jeffrey Hannan |
Publisher | : Idea |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Debates and debating |
ISBN | : 9781617700385 |
Conceived and written by three of the most successful and talented National Forensic League coaches and educators, this text brings together current best practices for Public Forum and Congressional Debate.
Author | : Woodrow Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Executive power |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen W. Stathis |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0872899764 |
Presents and analyzes numerous pivotal historical debates, from the Declaration of Independence to authorizing war with Iraq.
Author | : Julia Rose Kraut |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674246179 |
In this first comprehensive overview of the intersection of immigration law and the First Amendment, a lawyer and historian traces ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States from the Alien Friends Act of 1798 to the evolving policies of the Trump administration. Beginning with the Alien Friends Act of 1798, the United States passed laws in the name of national security to bar or expel foreigners based on their beliefs and associations—although these laws sometimes conflict with First Amendment protections of freedom of speech and association or contradict America’s self-image as a nation of immigrants. The government has continually used ideological exclusions and deportations of noncitizens to suppress dissent and radicalism throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the War on Anarchy to the Cold War to the War on Terror. In Threat of Dissent—the first social, political, and legal history of ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States—Julia Rose Kraut delves into the intricacies of major court decisions and legislation without losing sight of the people involved. We follow the cases of immigrants and foreign-born visitors, including activists, scholars, and artists such as Emma Goldman, Ernest Mandel, Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, and John Lennon. Kraut also highlights lawyers, including Clarence Darrow and Carol Weiss King, as well as organizations, like the ACLU and PEN America, who challenged the constitutionality of ideological exclusions and deportations under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court, however, frequently interpreted restrictions under immigration law and upheld the government’s authority. By reminding us of the legal vulnerability foreigners face on the basis of their beliefs, expressions, and associations, Kraut calls our attention to the ways that ideological exclusion and deportation reflect fears of subversion and serve as tools of political repression in the United States.