Author: USA House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
House Documents
Author: USA House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
The Congressional globe
Author: The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1696
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Fighting for the Speakership
Author: Jeffery A. JenkinsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691156441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.
Cyclopædia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States: Abdication-Duty
Author: John Joseph LalorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Author: Henry Wilson StoreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambria County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Author: John Newton BoucherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
Author: John Hill WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description