Senate, 1789-1989, V. 4

Senate, 1789-1989, V. 4
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Publisher : Government Printing Office
Total Pages : 760
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ISBN-10 : 0160632560
ISBN-13 : 9780160632563
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Synopsis Senate, 1789-1989, V. 4 by : Robert C. Byrd

Includes lists, tables, and statistics on: Senators; Senatorial elections; Sessions; Party leadership and organization; Committees; Senate organization; and Senate powers.

The Senate, 1789-1989

The Senate, 1789-1989
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Total Pages : 768
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32437010267512
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Synopsis The Senate, 1789-1989 by : Robert C. Byrd

Senate, 1789-1989, V. 3: Classic Speeches, 1830-1993

Senate, 1789-1989, V. 3: Classic Speeches, 1830-1993
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Publisher : Government Printing Office
Total Pages : 816
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ISBN-10 : 0160632579
ISBN-13 : 9780160632570
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Senate, 1789-1989, V. 3: Classic Speeches, 1830-1993 by : Wendy Wolff

Contains the texts of 46 speeches by: Robert Y. Hayne, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Thomas Corwin, Thomas Hart Benton, William H. Seward, Jeremiah Clemens, William P. Fessenden, Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, Andrew Johnson, Henry Cabot Lodge, William E. Borah, Rebecca L. Fenton, Huey P. Long, Joseph R. McCarthy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Richard M. Nixon, Frank Church, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Michael J. Mansfield, Everett M. Dirksen, Gale W. McGee, Robert C. Byrd, and other Senators.

The Senate, 1789-1989: Classic speeches, 1830-1993

The Senate, 1789-1989: Classic speeches, 1830-1993
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Publisher : Senate Historical Office
Total Pages : 824
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D00289317R
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Synopsis The Senate, 1789-1989: Classic speeches, 1830-1993 by : Robert C. Byrd

Contains the texts of 46 speeches by: Robert Y. Hayne, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Thomas Corwin, Thomas Hart Benton, William H. Seward, Jeremiah Clemens, William P. Fessenden, Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, Andrew Johnson, Henry Cabot Lodge, William E. Borah, Rebecca L. Fenton, Huey P. Long, Joseph R. McCarthy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Richard M. Nixon, Frank Church, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Michael J. Mansfield, Everett M. Dirksen, Gale W. McGee, Robert C. Byrd, and other Senators.

Pro Tem

Pro Tem
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Publisher : Government Printing Office
Total Pages : 124
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ISBN-10 : PURD:32754075500805
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Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Pro Tem by : United States. Congress. Senate

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE --Significantly reduced list price Prepared under the direction of Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate. Includes a preface by Senator Robert C. Byrd, who was serving as the President Pro Tem in 2008. Provides a history of the office followed by portraits and brief biographies of the Senators who served as President Pro Tem between 1789 and 2007. Other resources produced by the United States (U.S./US) Senate can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/515"

The American Senate

The American Senate
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 470
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ISBN-10 : 9780199339570
ISBN-13 : 0199339570
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Senate by : Neil MacNeil

Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013 The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber. What happened to the house that forged American history's great compromises? In this groundbreaking work, a distinguished journalist and an eminent historian provide an insider's history of the United States Senate. Richard A. Baker, historian emeritus of the Senate, and Neil MacNeil, former chief congressional correspondent for Time magazine, integrate nearly a century of combined experience on Capitol Hill with deep research and state-of-the-art scholarship. They explore the Senate's historical evolution with one eye on persistent structural pressures and the other on recent transformations. Here, for example, are the Senate's struggles with the presidency--from George Washington's first, disastrous visit to the chamber on August 22, 1789, through now-forgotten conflicts with Presidents Garfield and Cleveland, to current war powers disputes. The authors also explore the Senate's potent investigative power, and show how it began with an inquiry into John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. It took flight with committees on the conduct of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and World War II; and it gained a high profile with Joseph McCarthy's rampage against communism, Estes Kefauver's organized-crime hearings (the first to be broadcast), and its Watergate investigation. Within the book are surprises as well. For example, the office of majority leader first acquired real power in 1952--not with Lyndon Johnson, but with Republican Robert Taft. Johnson accelerated the trend, tampering with the sacred principle of seniority in order to control issues such as committee assignments. Rampant filibustering, the authors find, was the ironic result of the passage of 1960s civil rights legislation. No longer stigmatized as a white-supremacist tool, its use became routine, especially as the Senate became more partisan in the 1970s. Thoughtful and incisive, The American Senate: An Insider's History transforms our understanding of Congress's upper house.

Administrative Notes

Administrative Notes
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Total Pages : 676
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433076452022
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Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

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