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|  | War Powers | |  | Encyclopedia Entry |
|  | Warner, John, and Carl Levin | 2003 |  | Image |
|  | Washington, George, Presiding over the Constitutional Convention | 1787 |  | Image |
|  | Watergate Complex | |  | Image |
|  | Watergate Scandal | |  | Encyclopedia Entry |
|  | Ways and Means Committee, House | |  | Encyclopedia Entry |
|  | Ways and Means Subcommittee: 105th Congress | |  | Image |
|  | Webster, Daniel, Addresses Nullification in Congress | 1830 |  | Image |
|  | Webster, Daniel | 1782 - 1852 |  | Biography |
|  | What are caucuses? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are checks and balances? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are continuing resolutions? How often are they used? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are fast-track procedures? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are implied powers? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are majority-minority congressional districts? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are resolutions and concurrent resolutions? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are Senate classes? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are the differences between a joint session and a joint meeting of Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are the rates of congressional incumbents winning reelection? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are the requirements for being a representative? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are the requirements for being a senator? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are the special duties of the House? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What are the special duties of the Senate? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What committees are there now in Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What did the Endangered Species Act do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What did the Fair Labor Standards Act do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What did the Interstate Highway Act do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What did the Judiciary Act of 1789 do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What did the Legal Tender Acts do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What did the Social Security Act do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What did the Welfare Reform Act do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What do congressional committee staffers do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What do delegates to the House do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What do lobbyists do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What do the House and Senate parliamentarians do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What do the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What do the House majority and minority leaders do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What do the House whips do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What do the Senate whips do, and how are they chosen? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What does a floor manager do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What does Congress do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What does the clerk of the House do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What does the Congressional Budget Office do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What does the General Accounting Office do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What does the House Rules Committee do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What does the presiding officer do in the Senate? The House? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What does the secretary of the Senate do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What does the Speaker of the House do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What figure adorns the top of the Capitol Building? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What happens when new congressional districts must be drawn in a state? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What have retirement rates been for members of Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a Christmas tree bill? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a clean bill? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a conference committee? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a filibuster, and how can one be ended? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a gerrymander? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a legislative veto? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a mark-up session? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a motion to table? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a point of order? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a quorum? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a rider? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is a shadow senator or representative? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is an executive session in Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is congressional immunity? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is exclusion from Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is impeachment? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is impoundment? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is logrolling? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is pork-barrel politics? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is separation of powers? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the Committee of the Whole? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the congressional "College of Cardinals"? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the Consent Calendar? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the difference between a public and a private bill? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the difference between an authorization bill and an appropriations bill? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the oath of office for a member of Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the oversight power? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the previous question motion? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the procedure for impeaching an official? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the role of the House Ways and Means Committee? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the seniority system in Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is the War Powers Act? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What is unanimous consent? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What kinds of votes are there in Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What major acts did Congress pass in the 1950s? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What major acts did Congress pass in the 1960s? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What major acts did Congress pass in the 1970s? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What major acts did Congress pass in the 1990s? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What major acts did Congress pass in the 1980s? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What major treaties has the Senate approved since the 1950s? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What percent of members of Congress have been lawyers? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What session of Congress was the longest? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What states have had a female senator and a female governor at the same time? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What types of congressional committees are there? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was Abscam? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the banking scandal in the House about? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the Compromise of 1850? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the Federal Reserve Bank Act? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the first law passed by Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the GI Bill of Rights? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the Missouri Compromise? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the Pendleton Act? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the Pure Food and Drug Act? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the Sherman Antitrust Act? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the shortest session of Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the Tax Reform Act of 1986? | |  | Q & A |
|  | What was the Volstead Act? | |  | Q & A |
|  | When did Congress first appear on television? | |  | Q & A |
|  | When did Congress formally adopt the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem? | |  | Q & A |
|  | When has Congress been called into emergency session and why? | |  | Q & A |
|  | When has the same party controlled the White House and both houses of Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | When was the Capitol enlarged? | |  | Q & A |
|  | When was the last lame duck session of Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | When was the longest filibuster, and what was it about? | |  | Q & A |
|  | When were senators first elected by popular vote? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Where can you find copies of laws? Of bills, with legislative histories? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Where can you find the voting records of members of Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which black member of Congress served the longest? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which blacks have served in Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which Congress enacted the most public laws? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which female member of Congress served the longest? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which Hispanic member of Congress has served the longest? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which Hispanics have served in Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which member has served longest in the House? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which member has served longest in the Senate? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which members of Congress have been expelled? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which members of Congress have been censured or reprimanded? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which members of Congress have died in the Capitol? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which members of Congress have fought each other in duels? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which members of Congress have married other members? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which senator served the shortest time? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which sitting senators have been indicted? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which states have never elected African Americans to Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Which states have passed term limitation legislation? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Whitten, Jamie L. | 1910 - 1995 |  | Biography |
|  | Whitten, Jamie, and William H. Natcher Confer | 1991 |  | Image |
|  | Who designed the Capitol Building? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who had the least seniority in the House when elected Speaker? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who had the longest term as Speaker of the House? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who has been impeached by Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who has served as Speaker of the House? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who missed the fewest votes in Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who must agree to treaties between the United States and other countries? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who served the longest time in Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who serves as the president pro tempore of the Senate, and what does the job involve? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who serves as the Senate majority and minority leaders? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who was the first woman to preside over the Senate? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who was the last president to attend Congress during a floor debate? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who was the oldest member of Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who was the only Speaker of the House to serve as president? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who was the youngest member of Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who were the first black, Hispanic, Native American, female, Asian, Indian, and Hawaiian representatives and senators? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who were the first Catholics in the House and Senate? The first Jews? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who were the first women to chair committees in the House and Senate? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Who were the Keating Five, and what did they do? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Why do states sometimes gain or lose seats in Congress? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Why was Medicare legislation important? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Why was the Yellowstone National Park Act important? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Why were the Alien and Sedition Acts passed? | |  | Q & A |
|  | Wilson, Woodrow, Signing Legislation | 1916 |  | Image |
|  | Wolf, Frank, Offers an Amendment | |  | Image |
|  | Women in Congress | |  | Encyclopedia Entry |
|  | Women Members of Congress, 1917–2003 | 1917 - 2003 |  | Facts & Figures |
|  | Women of 71st Congress | |  | Image |
|  | Women Picket the White House | |  | Image |
|  | Women's Suffrage | |  | Encyclopedia Entry |
|  | Wright, Jim | |  | Biography |
|  | Wright, Jim | |  | Image |
|  | Writing to a Member of Congress | |  | Facts & Figures |