Assignment:
- Chapters 1, 2 and 3, Analyzing Congress
- The U.S. Constitution, Appendix B of Analyzing Congress
Agenda For Topic 1
Assignment:
Agenda For Topic 2
Current Congressional Leaders
How a Bill Becomes a Law
The Congressional Committee System (Part 1)
The Congressional Committee System (Part 2)Assignment:
- Preface, Prologue, and Chapters 1, 2, and 3, Congress Reconsidered
Agenda For Topic 3
Democrat-Republican Party System: 1879-2009
GDP and Unemployment (as of January 2010)
Budget and Deficit (as of January 2010)
Health Spending and Lobbyists (as of January 2010)
Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Healthcare, by Robert William Fogel, September 2009, The American,
a publication of the American Enterprise Institute.
Cloture Votes 1919 - 2008
Dodd and Oppenheimer, Chapter 2, Observations
Mann and Ornstein, Chapter 3, Observations
Study Questions for Midterm
Assignment:
- Chapter 7, Analyzing Congress
- Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10, Congress Reconsidered
- Chapters 1 - 4, and 6, Ideology and Congress
Agenda For Topic 4
Assignment:
- Chapters 4, 5, and 6, Analyzing Congress
- Chapters 4, 5, and 6, Congress Reconsidered
- Chapter 5, Ideology and Congress
Agenda For Topic 5
Study Questions for Final
Assignment:
- Chapters 8 and 9, Analyzing Congress
- Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, Congress Reconsidered
- Chapter 9, Ideology and Congress
Agenda For Topic 6
Assignment:
- Chapters 16, 17, and 18, Congress Reconsidered
- Chapter 12, Ideology and Congress