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Acts of Congress often contain provisions that are ambiguous, complex and/or contradictory, and it is often left to the courts to discern the meaning of the language. This paper examines the potential influence of one method of inter‐branch communication—an amicus curiae brief filed by members of Congress in Supreme Court cases. Several characteristics of the briefs filed by members of Congress during the 1990s are coded and it is found that unlike the solicitor general, members of Congress have little impact on the decisions of the High Court. There is communication between members of Congress and the Court. Thus, this investigation provides no support for the rational actor model of judicial decision‐making; however, the communication seems to serve the re‐election goals of legislators.

For more than three decades, social choice theorists and legislative scholars have studied how legislative outcomes in Congress can be manipulated through strategic amendments and voting. I address the central limitation of this research, a virtual absence of systematic empirical work by examining 76 "killer" amendments considered during the 103d and 104th congresses. I trace the effects of these amendments on their related bills using archival sources, test for strategic voting using NOMINATE as the baseline measure of legislator preferences across a range of issues, and explore with OLS regression why some killer amendments are more strategically important than others. The findings indicate that successful killer amendments and identifiable strategic voting are extremely rare. In none of the cases examined could the defeat of a bill be attributed to adoption of an alleged killer amendment. (American Political Science Review / FUB)

Shipping list no.: 2007-0014-S. ; "Matthew A. Wasniewski, editor-in-chief"--Title page verso. ; "An updated version of House document 101-238, entitled Women in Congress, 1917-1990''--introduction." ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This fact sheet details changes in the committee system contained in H. Res. 5, the rules of the House for the 107th Congress, adopted by the House January 3, 2001. This contains information on changes in the committee structure, committee procedure, and committee staff.

This fact sheet details changes in the committee system contained in H. Res. 5, the rules of the House for the 108th Congress, adopted by the House January 7, 2003. It contains information on the committee organization and structure, committee procedure, and committee staff.

This report discusses food safety legislation passed by Congress in December 2010 (FDA Food Safety Modernization Act [FSMA], P.L. 111-353).

This report presents basic background on health insurance that may be useful to legislators considering health insurance reforms.

This report discusses the federal support for child care in several forms, ranging from grant programs to tax provisions. It also points out the federal child care-related programs and tax provisions.

This report discusses the FY2003 Appropriations, FY2004: Comparing President Bush's Budget Proposals to the final Appropriations levels, President Bush's FY2005 Budget Request and Hearings.

This report summarizes proposed and enacted legislative initiatives to change child nutrition programs (including WIC program) during 1997 and 1998.

This report discusses Food Safety Incidents, Food borne Illness, FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, and Key Issues for the 113th Congress.