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Congress's role in disaster oversight and management is the subject of this case study of emergency preparation and -response to Hurricane Katrina. Examined are the implications for the National Response Plan, communications systems, military involvement, medical care and evacuation, and logistics and contracting. The findings suggest that Congress failed to make necessary permanent changes in the national emergency response system with respect to communication and coordination among federal, state, and local governments and emergency response agencies after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The study concludes that Congress shares blame for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina and suggests that statutory changes should be made to improve the emergency response system to better cope with future large-scale disasters. Adapted from the source document.

Majority Party leaders are hypothesized, through their control of the legislative schedule in the House of Representatives, to use legislative success as a selective incentive to encourage majority party members to contribute to the collective goals of the party. Members can demonstrate party loyalty through floor voting and financial contributions to the party's re-election efforts. This article examines legislative success from the 103rd through 107th Congresses. The evidence shows that both demonstrations of party loyalty have a significant effect on legislative success.

Political Science Research Methods helps students to understand the logic behind research design by guiding them through a step-by-step process that explains when and why a researcher would pursue different kinds of methods. The highly anticipated Ninth Edition of this trusted resource provides more international examples, an increased focus on the role ethics play in the research process, increased attention to qualitative research methods, and expanded coverage on the role of the internet in research and analysis.

The effect of voter-identification (voter-ID) laws on turnout is a
hot-button issue in contemporary American politics. In April of
2008, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Indiana's voter-ID law, the
nation's most rigorous, which requires voters to arrive at the polls
with a state-issued photo ID containing an expiration date
(Crawford v. Marion County 2008). In a famous
incident highlighting how Hoosiers were dealing with their state's
voter-ID law, representative Julia Carson (D-IN) was initially
blocked from voting during Indiana's 2006 primary election for
failing to comply with Indiana's voter-identification standard.
Carson identified herself with her congressional ID card; since that
card did not include an expiration date and therefore did not meet
Indiana's voter-identification law, she was turned away at the polls
before later being allowed to vote (Goldstein 2006). The rising wave of public, political,
and legal debate crested two years later in the wake of the Supreme
Court ruling and during the Indiana primaries, with reports of a
dozen nuns being denied ballots at the polls due to their lack of
appropriate identification (Urbina 2008).