Government regulation, Market trend/market analysis, United States. Congress -- Political activity, Disclosure of information -- Political aspects, Disclosure of information -- Laws, regulations and rules, Lobbyists -- Political activity, Public interest -- Forecasts and trends, Sunshine laws -- Interpretation and construction, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
The U.S. Congress is broken. Legislators prioritize political posturing and self-aggrandizement over the actual business of legislation. They have caused two costly and pointless shutdowns of the federal government in [...]
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Political activity, War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Ethical aspects, Extraordinary rendition -- Laws, regulations and rules, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
The United States once took justifiable pride in such fundamental democratic attributes as the openness and fairness of its judicial process. Today, too many U.S. lawmakers are prepared to follow [...]
Daedalus. Summer, 2007, Vol. 136 Issue 3, p104, 4 p.
Subjects
United States. Congress, Political parties -- United States, Political parties -- Evaluation, Political parties -- History, Voting -- Evaluation, Polarization (Social sciences) -- Influence, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
Beginning in the mid-1970s, congressional politics became much more divisive. More Democrats staked out consistently liberal positions, and more Republicans supported wholly conservative ones. Pundits, the press, and politicians themselves [...]
The Wilson Quarterly. Spring, 2004, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p12, 6 p.
Subjects
United States. Congress -- Political activity, Lobbying -- Evaluation, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
According to opinion polls, Congress is one of the least esteemed institutions in American life. While that should come as a shock, today it's taken for granted. What can't be [...]
The American Prospect. Nov, 2005, Vol. 16 Issue 11, A6, 4 p.
Subjects
Government regulation, Company business planning, United States. Congress -- Social policy, Migrant labor -- Laws, regulations and rules, Employers -- Laws, regulations and rules, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
AS THE TEMPERATURE SURROUNDING immigration issues rises, let's remember that our political system walked this road 20 years ago during the debate that led to the Immigration Reform and Control [...]
Policy Review. Sept-Oct, 1996 Issue 79, p38, 5 p. cartoon
Subjects
United States. Congress -- Political activity, Republican Party (United States) -- Political activity, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
Republicans in the 104th Congress accomplished welfare overhaul and other significant legislation, despite President Clinton's vetoes, but they were not able to push everything they wanted. People who want tax cuts, a controlled legal system, and Medicare solvency should blame Clinton for not allowing the Republican-controlled Congress to fulfill these goals. Republicans discovered they needed to change their strategy because their ideology clashed with democratic policies. After a rise and fall in popularity, the GOP discovered there are few long-term victories in politics.
Political Science Quarterly. Summer, 1995, Vol. 110 Issue 2, p183, 24 p.
Subjects
United States. Congress -- Political activity, Republican Party (United States) -- Political activity, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
The Republican sweep of the House of Representatives, the Senate and gubernatorial seats in the Nov. 1994 elections was unprecedented and caught most political analysts off guard. The Republican gains in most parts of the US were all the more impressive as every Republican incumbent in the House, Senate and gubernatorial races was re-elected. The first 100 days of the 104th Congress were equally impressive as Newt Gingrich led the House in the rapid passage of a series of bills and resolutions under the Republican Party's Contract with America. The profound changes in American political structures and dynamics implied by these events are discussed.
Washington Monthly. Oct, 2006, Vol. 38 Issue 10, p24, 7 p.
Subjects
Company business management, United States. Congress -- Officials and employees, Legislators -- Political activity, Legislators -- Management, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
One of the Senate's quirkier traditions was inaugurated in the late 1990s by then-Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). On certain summer Thursdays, Lott decreed, members should leave their customary dark [...]
Market trend/market analysis, United States. Congress -- Officials and employees, United States. Congress -- Forecasts and trends, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
WASHINGTON -- At the White House, a stunned President Obama expressed hope for bipartisan progress as turmoil among Republicans ended Representative John A. Boehner's speakership. On Capitol Hill, [...]
Daedalus. Summer, 2003, Vol. 132 Issue 3, p5, 4 p.
Subjects
United States. Supreme Court -- Political aspects, United States. Supreme Court -- Planning, Constitutional law -- Interpretation and construction, Judicial power -- Analysis, Judicial power -- Political aspects, United States -- Political aspects, United States -- Religious aspects, and United States -- History
Abstract
The United States in recent years has been drifting toward an important confrontation over constitutional limits on the power of the federal government. Three years ago, Supreme Court Justice Antonin [...]
The American Prospect. June, 2006, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p32, 7 p.
Subjects
Market trend/market analysis, Legislators -- Elections, Political parties -- United States, Political parties -- Elections, Political parties -- Forecasts and trends, Presidents -- Elections, Presidents -- Forecasts and trends, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH HAS MADE THAT STATEMENT MANY TIMES. So has Vice President Dick Cheney. And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Multiple principals endlessly repeating themselves--that's the mark of a [...]
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. August, 2003, Vol. 40, p182, 1 p.
Subjects
Online information service, United States. Congress, Online services -- Evaluation, Information services -- Evaluation, and United States -- Political aspects
Government regulation, Iraq War, 2003- -- Political aspects, Presidents -- Political activity, Presidents -- Ethical aspects, Impeachments -- Political aspects, Impeachments -- Laws, regulations and rules, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
Now that the U.S. government's chief weapons inspector in Iraq has, in effect, confirmed an obvious truth -- that President George W. Bush and his closest advisers promoted a non-existent [...]
United States. Congress -- Management, Republican Party (United States) -- Political activity, United States -- Political aspects, and United States
Abstract
The new Republican-dominated Congress convened with changes in the way both houses operate and with a policy of less interference. Nevertheless, more is required of Congress as it grapples with budget rules, the tax code and regulations.
World Trade Organization -- Economic policy, International Monetary Fund -- Economic policy, Free trade -- Political aspects, Developing countries -- International trade, Duty-free importation -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States -- Political aspects, and China -- International trade
Abstract
The Clinton administration is opposing a World Bank proposal that would increase exports from the world's poorest and most indebted nations for fear that it would inflame sentiments in Congress [...]
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication. Jan 20, 2006, Vol. 105 Issue 16, p1, 4 p.
Subjects
Government regulation, Minutemen (United States) -- Political activity, Illegal immigrants -- Laws, regulations and rules, Border patrols -- Laws, regulations and rules, Immigration policy, United States -- Political aspects, and United States -- Emigration and immigration
Abstract
TUCSON, ARIZ.--On a pitch-black night in early October, Dave Petersen watched the shooting stars dart across the sky above the United States--Mexico border just southwest of Tucson, Ariz. Then he [...]
Government regulation, United States. House of Representatives -- Political activity, Libraries -- Political aspects, Libraries -- Laws, regulations and rules, Legislators -- Political activity, Freedom of Information Act, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
The November 2006 midterm elections brought a sea change to the balance of power in Washington. While it was expected that the Democrats would take over leadership of the House [...]
The Economist. August 11, 2018, Vol. 428 Issue 9104, p22
Subjects
Market trend/market analysis, Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Republican Party (United States) -- Political activity, Democratic Party (United States) -- Political activity, Voting -- Forecasts and trends, Voting -- Social aspects, Suffrage -- Political aspects, Suffrage -- Laws, regulations and rules, Suffrage -- Social aspects, Elections -- Ethical aspects, Elections -- Forecasts and trends, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
Trust but verify Republicans say they're fighting fraud. Democrats call it voter-suppression IN 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. Among other things, this [...]
Company business management, Market trend/market analysis, Political parties -- United States, Political parties -- Management, Political parties -- Economic aspects, Expenditures, Public -- Political aspects, Expenditures, Public -- Forecasts and trends, United States -- Political aspects, and United States -- Economic policy
Abstract
ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2005, two weeks after Hurricane Katrina had devastated the Gulf Coast, President Bush delivered a live television address from Jackson Square in New Orleans. As the power [...]
District Administration. Nov, 2002, Vol. 38 Issue 11, p33, 4 p.
Subjects
Politics -- Study and teaching, Students -- Practice, and United States -- Political aspects
Abstract
The presidential vote-counting debacle of 2000 was the first in a spate of recent national events that put the spotlight on understanding our democracy, Constitution and lawmaking. After [...]
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