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A revised and updated Congress text. A year on Capitol Hill in 1993 gave Congressional authority Leroy Rieselbach many examples with which to illustrate traditional topics such as rules, committees, and norms, as well as evolving issues such as the "year of the woman."

Fifth Amendment due Process RightsExecutive Privilege; Presidential Communications Privilege; Deliberative Process Privilege; Common Law Privileges; Attorney-Client Privilege; Work Product Immunity and Other Common Law Testimonial Privileges; Statutory Limitations on Congressional Access to Information; Limitations Relating to Global Investigations; Options for Obtaining Materials from Overseas; Ability to Serve Congressional Subpoenas Overseas; Frequently Encountered Information Access Issues; The Privacy Act; The Freedom of Information Act; Grand Jury Materials

Congressional oversight : an overview / Walter J. Oleszek -- Congressional oversight manual / Frederick M. Kaiser, Walter J. Oleszek, T.J. Halstead, Morton Rosenberg, and Todd B. Tatelman -- Congressional oversight of intelligence : current structure and alternatives / Frederick M. Kaiser -- Sensitive covert action notifications : oversight options for Congress / Alfred Cumming -- Congressional oversight and related issues concerning international security agreements concluded by the United States / Michael John Garcia and R. Chuck Mason.

This guide for young readers explains the sometimes complicated concept of government by focusing on one particular and important aspect. Readers will understand what the legislative branch is and the role it plays within the state and federal government. They will also be introduced to some of the most important and interesting people who have worked in this branch of government, including both past and present members of the U.S. Congress. Full-color photos and diagrams help to illustrate what kind of decisions are made in Congress and how those decisions affect the everyday lives of America

Powers and functions of the U.S. Congress -- Major legislative buildings -- The House and the Senate -- Establishing the executive branch and federal government -- Western expansion and territories abroad -- Solidifying foreign relations, immigration, and national security -- Civil liberties and social welfare

This report is a guide to the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act (P.L. 108-83).

Chapter 2 THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS ON THE HOUSEFLOOR: AN INTRODUCTIONSUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; THE NATURE OF THE RULES; LIMITATIONS ON DEBATE; THE CALENDARS AND THE ORDER OF BUSINESS; MODES OF FLOOR CONSIDERATION; Under Suspension of the Rules; In the House under the Hour Rule; In Committee of the Whole and the House; General Debate; Amending Process; Final Passage; Under a Special Rule Reported by the Committee on Rules; Unanimous Consent; SENATE AMENDMENTS AND CONFERENCE REPORTS; VOTING AND QUORUM PROCEDURES; BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: A TYPICAL DAYON THE HOUSE FLOOR.

Newt Gingrich, the Genghis Khan of recent American politics, wrenched the humdrum congressional ethics process out of its lethargy and turned it into an offensive tool for partisan gain. Now, instead of yawning, lawmakers quake at the thought of an ethics inquiry that can easily, often unfairly, tip elections and ruin careers. While members of the House and Senate confront the public's changing attitudes toward money, sex, and power, they are also forced to raise ever-escalating sums to finance their campaigns. Practices tolerated a decade ago now may cost lawmakers their seats or land them in jail. Lawmakers often don't know if they live in Salem or Gomorrah. Using new information culled from dozens of Capitol Hill interviews, Sue and Marty Tolchin show how ethics in Washington have changed over two centuries while offering new interpretations of past ethics cases. The first book to analyze the politicization of the ethics process, Glass Houses reveals in wicked and telling detail the forces that drive the modern lawmaker into a maelstrom of fierce corruption battles

1The Weakness of Parties2 --2Committee Government9 --3An Outline of the Book13 --Part 1The Autonomy and Distinctiveness of Committees15 --1Self-Selection and the Subgovernment Thesis17 --1Self Selection19 --2Constituency Interests and Assignment Requests21 --3Accommodation of Assignment Requests25 --4Accommodation of Transfer Requests32 --5The Routinization of the Assignment Process37 --6What of Norms in the Assignment Process?39 --7Whither Assignment Routines? The Republican Revolution40 --2The Seniority System in Congress43 --1Seniority in the Rayburn House: The Standard View44 --2Reconsidering the Standard View45 --3The Empirical Evidence47 --4Interpreting the Evidence: Postwar Democratic Rule52 --5Interpreting the Evidence: The Republican Revolution55 --3Subgovernments and the Representativeness of Committees58 --1The Previous Literature59 --2Data and Methodology65 --3Results68 --4The Representativeness Thesis72 --Part 2A Theory of Organization77 --4Institutions as Solutions to Collective Dilemmas79 --1Collective Dilemmas80 --2Central Authority: The Basics84 --3Why Central Authority Is Sometimes Necessary87 --4Multiperiod Considerations92 --5Problems with Central Authority94 --5A Theory of Legislative Parties99 --1The Reelection Goal100 --2Reelection Maximizers and Electoral Inefficiencies112 --3Party Leadership115 --4Some Criticisms of Our Theory and Our Rejoinder123 --Part 3Parties as Floor-Voting Coalitions127 --6On the Decline of Party Voting in Congress129 --1Party Voting: Trends Since 1980130 --2Party Voting: Trends from 1910 to the 1970s131 --3Party Agendas and Party Leadership Votes135 --Part 4Parties as Procedural Coalitions: Committee Appointments149 --7Party Loyalty and Committee Assignments153 --1Assignments to Control Committees154 --2Party Loyalty and Transfers to House Committees155 --3Loyalty, the Republican Revolution, and the Great Purge of 1995170 --4Assignment Success of Freshmen171 --8Contingents and Parties176 --1A Model of Partisan Selection177 --2Which Committees' Contingents Will Be Representative?178 --3Results188 --Part 5Parties as Procedural Coalitions: The Scheduling Power211 --9The Majority Party and the Legislative Agenda213 --1The Speaker's Collective Scheduling Problem215 --2Limits on the Scheduling Power217 --3Committee Agendas and the Speaker221 --4Intercommittee Logrolls227 --5Coalitional Stability230 --6Critiques and Rejoinders232 --10Controlling the Legislative Agenda235 --1The Majority Party and the Committee System236 --2The Consequences of Structural Power: The Legislative Agenda241 --3The Consequences of Structural Power: Public Policy250 --4Comments on the Postwar House251 --Appendix 1Uncompensated Seniority Violations, Eightieth through Hundredth Congresses259 --Appendix 2A Model of the Speaker's Scheduling Preferences263 --Appendix 3Unchallengeable and Challengeable Vetoes267 --Appendix 4The Scheduling Power269.

BookCover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Analytic framework; 2 Description of the Portuguese context; 3 The Portuguese parliament in context; 4 Development of parliament's role in policy-making; 5 Towards a new role; 6 The budget; 7 Conclusion; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; 8 Bibliography; Index.