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Books About Congress
Books written By U.S. Representatives
Strengthening Congress
By Lee Hamilton, D-IN. Indiana University Press, 2009.
How Congress Works and Why You Should Care
By Lee Hamilton, D-IN. Indiana University Press, 2004.
The Congressional Experience , 3 nd Edition
By David E. Price, D-NC. Westview Press, 2004.
What Color is a Conservative?
By J.C. Watts, R-OK. HarperCollins, 2002.
Inside the House: Former Members Reveal How Congress Really Works
By Lou Frey, R-FL and the Assoc. of Former Members of Congress. University Press, 2001.
Mr. Chairman
By William Lehman, D-FL. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Congress from the Inside: Observations from the Majority and the Minority
By Sherrod Brown, D-OH. Kent State University Press, 1999.
When Government Was Good: Memories of a Life in Politics
By Henry S. Reuss, D-WI and John Kenneth Galbraith. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1999.
Representative Mom: Balancing Budgets, Bill, and Baby in the U.S. Congress
By Susan Molinari, R-NY. Doubleday, 1998.
24 Years of Housework...and the Place Is Still a Mess: My Life in Politics
By Patricia Schroeder, D-CO. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998.
Outsider in the House
By Bernard Sanders, I-VT. Verso Books, 1997.
I Was There
By John Rhodes, R-AZ. Northwest Publishers, 1996.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: From Eisenhower to Clinton
By Neal Edward Smith, D-IA. Iowa State University Press, 1996.
Man of the House: the Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill
By Thomas P. O'Neill, D-MA. Random House, 1987.
Diary of a Congressman
By William Whitehurst, R-VA. Walsworth Publishing, 1985.
Books written By U.S. Senators
A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat
By Zell Miller, D-GA. Stroud &Hall, 2003.
From Father to Son: A Private Life in the Public Eye
By Evan Bayh, D-IN. Guild Press Emmis Publishing, 2003.
Like No Other Time:The 107th Congress and Two Years that Changed America Forever
By Tom Daschle, D-SD. Crown Publishing, 2003.
Square Peg: Confessions of a Citizen Senator
By Orrin Hatch, R-UT. Basic Books, 2002.
In Praise of Public Life
By Joseph Lieberman, D-CT. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate
By Barbara Mikulski, D-MD, editor. William Morrow, 2000.
Tennessee Senators, 1911-2001: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change
By William Frist, R-TN. Madison Books, 1999.
Education of a Senator
By Everett McKinley Dirksen, R-IL, and Frank MacKaman. Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998.
We Know What to Do: A Political Maverick Talks with America.
By Lamar Alexandar, R-TN. William Morrow, 1995.
In Defense of Congress
By Fred Harris, D-OK. Wadsworth Publishing, 1994.
Strangers in the Senate: Politics and the New Revolution of Women in America
By Barbara Boxer, D-CA. National Press Books, 1994.
A Changing America: Conservatives View the '80s from the United States Senate.
By Pete Domenici, R-NM. Regnery/Gateway, 1980.
Journey to Washington
By Daniel Inouye, D-HI. Prentice Hall, 1967.
Books On Congress Written By Others
On Capitol Hill : The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000
By Julian Zelizer. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Congress and Its Members , 9 th Edition
By Roger Davidson and Walter Oleszek. CQ Press 2003.
Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process, 6 th Edition
By Walter J. Oleszek. Congressional Quarterly Press, 2003.
Major Acts of Congress
By Brian K. Landsberg, Editor. MacMillan Library Reference, 2003.
Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock
By Sarah Binder. The Brookings Institution, 2003.
Home Style: House Members in Their Districts
By Richard Fenno Jr. Longman Press, 1st edition, 2002.
The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress
By Michele Swers. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Congress and the People: Deliberative Democracy on Trial
By Donald Wolfensberger. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2000.
Congress Reconsidered, 7th Edition
By Lawrence Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer, CQ Press, 2000.
House and Senate
By Ross K. Baker. W.W. Norton & Company, 3rd edition, 2000.
Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress, 2nd Edition
By Barbara Sinclair. Congressional Quarterly Press. 2000.
Legislative Learning : The 104th Republican Freshmen in the House (Politics and Policy in American Institutions)
By Timothy Barnett. Garland Publishing, 1999.
Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress
By Carol Swain, Harvard University Press, 1998.
Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes Toward American Political Institutions
By John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
The Logic of Congressional Action
By R. Douglas Arnold. Yale University Press, 1990.
To Make All Laws: The Congress of the United States, 1789-1989
By James H. Hutson. Houghton Mifflin; reprint edition. 1990.
Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment, 2 nd edition
By Morris P. Fiorina. Yale University Press, 1989.
Congressmen's Voting Decisions, 3 rd Edition
By John W. Kingdon, University of Maryland Press, 1989.
Critical Elections and Congressional Policy Making
By David R. Brady. Stanford University Press, 1988.
Congress and the Bureaucracy: A Theory of Influence
By R. Douglas Arnold. Yale University Press. 1979.
Congress: The Electoral Connection
By David R. Mayhew. Yale University Press, 1974.
Books On Representative Democracy Written By Others
Citizen Democracy: Political Activists in a Cynical Age, 2 nd edition
By Stephen E. Frantzich. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
Republic on Trial: The Case for Representative Democracy
By Alan Rosenthal, Burdett A. Loomis, John R. Hibbing and Karl T. Kurtz. CQ Press, 2003.
Vital Statistics on American Politics, 2003-2004
By Harold W. Stanley and Richard Niemi. Congressional Quarterly Press. 2003.
Government’s Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security
By Paul Light. Brookings Institution Press, 2002.
Stealth Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs About How Government Should Work
By John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Links
Information Sources Related to Congress
- Office of the Clerk of the House
http://clerk.house.gov/ - Congressional District Demographic Data
http://fastfacts.census.gov/home/cws/main.html - Map of # of Representatives per state
http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/map03.gif - Congress for Kids
http://kids.clerk.house.gov/ - Ben's Guide to the Government for Kids
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/ - Congressional Schedules
http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/schedule.htm - Congressional Member Online Directory
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?command=congdir - Reports on Congressional Procedures
http://www.house.gov/rules/crs_reports.htm - Congressional Pictorial Directory
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pictorial/index.html
Media Sources on Congress
- FedNet
http://www.fednet.net/
Historical Documents
- Historical Records of Congress
http://www.archives.gov/
Other Research Centers
Related to Congress
- Congress Online Project
http://www.congressonlineproject.org/ - The Congressional Institute
http://www.conginst.org/ - Association of Centers for the Study of Congress
http://www.congresscenters.org/ - The Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma
http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/main.html
Other Links
- GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legislative.html - Quotes from the Capitol
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/cc_quotations.cfm - United States Association of Former Members of Congress
http://usafmc.org/ - General Accounting Office [GAO] Reports
http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/repandtest.html - Political Party Leadership Sites
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/legbranch/otherleg.html#partisan - Women Members of Congress: Bios
http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/ - Congressional Papers and Publications
http://library.wustl.edu/units/westcampus/govdocs/congress/congressionalpapers.htm