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Table of Contents for Inside the House: Former Members Reveal How Congress Really Works

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Making a Difference:
  • Ron, What Really Did You Do for a Living All Those Years in Washington
  • The Youngest Woman Elected to Congress
  • Constituencies within Congress: The Experiences of an Hispanic Congressman
  • A Republican Hawk Takes on the Pentagon
  • Getting Elected and Settling In:
  • The Lure of Politics
  • Mr. Sundquist Goes to Washington
  • Settling into Washington as a First-Term Representative
  • Tales from the House Gymnasium
  • What Can a New Member Accomplish?
  • Old Advice for New Members of Congress
  • Congressman-At-Large: Representing the State of Maryland
  • The Personal Side of Life in the House:
  • Family Life in Washington: The Spouse's Perspective
  • Dynamic Duo: A Marriage Devoted to Public Service
  • Religious Idealism and Reality in Congressional Politics
  • The Impeachment of Richard Nixon: A Personal Recollection
  • Never Quite Over the Hill: Working as a Congressional Staffer
  • Political Parties and the Life of the House:
  • Party Government in Canada
  • How Political Parties Shape the Policy Decisions of Congress
  • Challenges that Speakers Face
  • The Job of the Minority Leader
  • Crossing the Party Line: My Life as a Republican. . . and a Democrat
  • Wielding Influence as a Conservative Democrat
  • Serving on Committees in Congress:
  • Congress and Ways & Means
  • The Appropriations Committee
  • Forty-Eight Hours in the Life of a Congressional Appropriator
  • A Ranking Member of a Committee of the US Congress
  • Power in the US House and the Florida State Senate
  • The Member's Environment: Interest Groups, Constituents, and the Media:
  • Questions People Ask Me About Representation
  • The Role of Mail in Decisions in Congress
  • Lobbies and Political Action Committees: A Congressman's Perspective
  • Soft Behavior Responses: How Legislators Serve Lobbyists in the Shadows of Capitol Hill
  • Congress and the Media
  • Dealing with the Press
  • Congress and Policy-Making:
  • A Look at the Rules of the House
  • Taking on AT&T: Rewriting the Communications Act
  • Legislative Entrepreneurship: Different Strategies for Different Issues
  • Congress in Foreign Affairs
  • Changes in the Role of Congress in Foreign Affairs
  • The Legislator's Role in Defense
  • Congress and the Pentagon: Civil-Military Relations for a New Millennium
  • The Evolution of Congress:
  • Early History and Development of the United States Congress
  • A Governor's Reflections on the Life in the US House
  • Congress-It Used to Work
  • Partisan Memories: Watergate Revisited
  • Contributors

$32.00 ($27.20 w/ 15% off)
Paper
0-7618-1937-1 / 978-0-7618-1937-0
Feb 2001
344pp