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W War Powers – Writing to a Member of Congress

	Document Name	Date	Document Type
Select praz3d-180-9145-557758	War Powers			Encyclopedia Entry
Select coaz4d-179-9159-558139	Warner, John, and Carl Levin	2003		Image
Select coaz4d-179-9229-561455	Washington, George, Presiding over the Constitutional Convention	1787		Image
Select coaz4d-179-9233-561532	Watergate Complex			Image
Select coaz4d-179-8954-501487	Watergate Scandal			Encyclopedia Entry
Select coaz4dr-897-29872-1411941	Ways and Means Committee, House			Encyclopedia Entry
Select coaz4d-179-9221-561292	Ways and Means Subcommittee: 105th Congress			Image
Select coaz4d-179-9233-561536	Webster, Daniel, Addresses Nullification in Congress	1830		Image
Select coaz4d-179-8954-501491	Webster, Daniel	1782 - 1852		Biography
Select qwh60076	What are caucuses?			Q & A
Select qwh60605	What are checks and balances?			Q & A
Select qwh60042	What are continuing resolutions? How often are they used?			Q & A
Select qwh60048	What are fast-track procedures?			Q & A
Select qwh60607	What are implied powers?			Q & A
Select qwh60011	What are majority-minority congressional districts?			Q & A
Select qwh60041	What are resolutions and concurrent resolutions?			Q & A
Select qwh60112	What are Senate classes?			Q & A
Select qwh60063	What are the differences between a joint session and a joint meeting of Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60077	What are the rates of congressional incumbents winning reelection?			Q & A
Select qwh60124	What are the requirements for being a representative?			Q & A
Select qwh60107	What are the requirements for being a senator?			Q & A
Select qwh60123	What are the special duties of the House?			Q & A
Select qwh60104	What are the special duties of the Senate?			Q & A
Select qwh60070	What committees are there now in Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60160	What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do?			Q & A
Select qwh60162	What did the Endangered Species Act do?			Q & A
Select qwh60157	What did the Fair Labor Standards Act do?			Q & A
Select qwh60159	What did the Interstate Highway Act do?			Q & A
Select qwh60145	What did the Judiciary Act of 1789 do?			Q & A
Select qwh60149	What did the Legal Tender Acts do?			Q & A
Select qwh60156	What did the Social Security Act do?			Q & A
Select qwh60164	What did the Welfare Reform Act do?			Q & A
Select qwh60068	What do congressional committee staffers do?			Q & A
Select qwh60139	What do delegates to the House do?			Q & A
Select qwh60030	What do lobbyists do?			Q & A
Select qwh60050	What do the House and Senate parliamentarians do?			Q & A
Select qwh60051	What do the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms do?			Q & A
Select qwh60136	What do the House majority and minority leaders do?			Q & A
Select qwh60137	What do the House whips do?			Q & A
Select qwh60117	What do the Senate whips do, and how are they chosen?			Q & A
Select qwh60047	What does a floor manager do?			Q & A
Select qwh60005	What does Congress do?			Q & A
Select qwh60138	What does the clerk of the House do?			Q & A
Select qwh60647	What does the Congressional Budget Office do?			Q & A
Select qwh60649	What does the General Accounting Office do?			Q & A
Select qwh60141	What does the House Rules Committee do?			Q & A
Select qwh60015	What does the presiding officer do in the Senate? The House?			Q & A
Select qwh60118	What does the secretary of the Senate do?			Q & A
Select qwh60130	What does the Speaker of the House do?			Q & A
Select qwh60627	What figure adorns the top of the Capitol Building?			Q & A
Select qwh60010	What happens when new congressional districts must be drawn in a state?			Q & A
Select qwh60079	What have retirement rates been for members of Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60046	What is a Christmas tree bill?			Q & A
Select qwh60044	What is a clean bill?			Q & A
Select qwh60069	What is a conference committee?			Q & A
Select qwh60006	What is a Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60119	What is a filibuster, and how can one be ended?			Q & A
Select qwh60012	What is a gerrymander?			Q & A
Select qwh60036	What is a legislative veto?			Q & A
Select qwh60075	What is a mark-up session?			Q & A
Select qwh60049	What is a motion to table?			Q & A
Select qwh60053	What is a point of order?			Q & A
Select qwh60054	What is a quorum?			Q & A
Select qwh60045	What is a rider?			Q & A
Select qwh60029	What is a shadow senator or representative?			Q & A
Select qwh60062	What is an executive session in Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60022	What is congressional immunity?			Q & A
Select qwh60021	What is exclusion from Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60023	What is impeachment?			Q & A
Select qwh60646	What is impoundment?			Q & A
Select qwh60066	What is logrolling?			Q & A
Select qwh60032	What is pork-barrel politics?			Q & A
Select qwh60604	What is separation of powers?			Q & A
Select qwh60140	What is the Committee of the Whole?			Q & A
Select qwh60074	What is the congressional "College of Cardinals"?			Q & A
Select qwh60143	What is the Consent Calendar?			Q & A
Select qwh60038	What is the difference between a public and a private bill?			Q & A
Select qwh60039	What is the difference between an authorization bill and an appropriations bill?			Q & A
Select qwh60014	What is the oath of office for a member of Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60608	What is the oversight power?			Q & A
Select qwh60144	What is the previous question motion?			Q & A
Select qwh60024	What is the procedure for impeaching an official?			Q & A
Select qwh60142	What is the role of the House Ways and Means Committee?			Q & A
Select qwh60073	What is the seniority system in Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60655	What is the War Powers Act?			Q & A
Select qwh60055	What is unanimous consent?			Q & A
Select qwh60065	What kinds of votes are there in Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60165	What major acts did Congress pass in the 1950s?			Q & A
Select qwh60166	What major acts did Congress pass in the 1960s?			Q & A
Select qwh60167	What major acts did Congress pass in the 1970s?			Q & A
Select qwh60169	What major acts did Congress pass in the 1990s?			Q & A
Select qwh60168	What major acts did Congress pass in the 1980s?			Q & A
Select qwh60105	What major treaties has the Senate approved since the 1950s?			Q & A
Select qwh60100	What percent of members of Congress have been lawyers?			Q & A
Select qwh60095	What session of Congress was the longest?			Q & A
Select qwh60122	What states have had a female senator and a female governor at the same time?			Q & A
Select qwh60067	What types of congressional committees are there?			Q & A
Select qwh60658	What was Abscam?			Q & A
Select qwh60660	What was the banking scandal in the House about?			Q & A
Select qwh60148	What was the Compromise of 1850?			Q & A
Select qwh60154	What was the Federal Reserve Bank Act?			Q & A
Select qwh60007	What was the first law passed by Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60158	What was the GI Bill of Rights?			Q & A
Select qwh60147	What was the Missouri Compromise?			Q & A
Select qwh60151	What was the Pendleton Act?			Q & A
Select qwh60153	What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?			Q & A
Select qwh60152	What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?			Q & A
Select qwh60096	What was the shortest session of Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60163	What was the Tax Reform Act of 1986?			Q & A
Select qwh60155	What was the Volstead Act?			Q & A
Select qwh60058	When did Congress first appear on television?			Q & A
Select qwh60575	When did Congress formally adopt the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem?			Q & A
Select qwh60061	When has Congress been called into emergency session and why?			Q & A
Select qwh60582	When has the same party controlled the White House and both houses of Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60626	When was the Capitol enlarged?			Q & A
Select qwh60097	When was the last lame duck session of Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60120	When was the longest filibuster, and what was it about?			Q & A
Select qwh60108	When were senators first elected by popular vote?			Q & A
Select qwh60043	Where can you find copies of laws? Of bills, with legislative histories?			Q & A
Select qwh60064	Where can you find the voting records of members of Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60090	Which black member of Congress served the longest?			Q & A
Select qwh60017	Which blacks have served in Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60099	Which Congress enacted the most public laws?			Q & A
Select qwh60088	Which female member of Congress served the longest?			Q & A
Select qwh60093	Which Hispanic member of Congress has served the longest?			Q & A
Select qwh60018	Which Hispanics have served in Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60126	Which member has served longest in the House?			Q & A
Select qwh60110	Which member has served longest in the Senate?			Q & A
Select qwh60019	Which members of Congress have been expelled?			Q & A
Select qwh60020	Which members of Congress have been censured or reprimanded?			Q & A
Select qwh60081	Which members of Congress have died in the Capitol?			Q & A
Select qwh60102	Which members of Congress have fought each other in duels?			Q & A
Select qwh60101	Which members of Congress have married other members?			Q & A
Select qwh60111	Which senator served the shortest time?			Q & A
Select qwh60121	Which sitting senators have been indicted?			Q & A
Select qwh60092	Which states have never elected African Americans to Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60078	Which states have passed term limitation legislation?			Q & A
Select coaz4d-179-8954-501495	Whitten, Jamie L.	1910 - 1995		Biography
Select coaz4d-179-9159-558134	Whitten, Jamie, and William H. Natcher Confer	1991		Image
Select qwh60624	Who designed the Capitol Building?			Q & A
Select qwh60133	Who had the least seniority in the House when elected Speaker?			Q & A
Select qwh60132	Who had the longest term as Speaker of the House?			Q & A
Select qwh60026	Who has been impeached by Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60131	Who has served as Speaker of the House?			Q & A
Select qwh60086	Who missed the fewest votes in Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60614	Who must agree to treaties between the United States and other countries?			Q & A
Select qwh60085	Who served the longest time in Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60113	Who serves as the president pro tempore of the Senate, and what does the job involve?			Q & A
Select qwh60115	Who serves as the Senate majority and minority leaders?			Q & A
Select qwh60114	Who was the first woman to preside over the Senate?			Q & A
Select qwh60057	Who was the last president to attend Congress during a floor debate?			Q & A
Select qwh60084	Who was the oldest member of Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60135	Who was the only Speaker of the House to serve as president?			Q & A
Select qwh60083	Who was the youngest member of Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60087	Who were the first black, Hispanic, Native American, female, Asian, Indian, and Hawaiian representatives and senators?			Q & A
Select qwh60094	Who were the first Catholics in the House and Senate? The first Jews?			Q & A
Select qwh60089	Who were the first women to chair committees in the House and Senate?			Q & A
Select qwh60665	Who were the Keating Five, and what did they do?			Q & A
Select qwh60009	Why do states sometimes gain or lose seats in Congress?			Q & A
Select qwh60161	Why was Medicare legislation important?			Q & A
Select qwh60150	Why was the Yellowstone National Park Act important?			Q & A
Select qwh60146	Why were the Alien and Sedition Acts passed?			Q & A
Select coaz4d-179-9211-561069	Wilson, Woodrow, Signing Legislation	1916		Image
Select coaz4d-179-9159-558125	Wolf, Frank, Offers an Amendment			Image
Select coaz4d-179-8954-501496	Women in Congress			Encyclopedia Entry
Select coaz4d-179-8900-500298	Women Members of Congress, 1917–2003	1917 - 2003		Facts & Figures
Select coaz4d-179-9233-561541	Women of 71st Congress			Image
Select coaz4d-179-9233-561545	Women Picket the White House			Image
Select coaz4d-179-8954-501500	Women's Suffrage			Encyclopedia Entry
Select coaz4d-179-8954-501502	Wright, Jim			Biography
Select coaz4d-179-9233-561547	Wright, Jim			Image
Select coaz4d-179-8900-500320	Writing to a Member of Congress			Facts & Figures

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