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Waite, Morrison R.Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Waite, Morrison R.Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Wallace, George C.1914 - 1998Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Wallace, Henry A.1888 - 1965Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Wallace, Henry A.1888 - 1965Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
War of 18121812 - 1814General summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
War on Terrorism2001General summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
War Powers Act of 19731973General summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
War PowersGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
War PowersGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
WarGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Warner, John, and Carl Levin2003Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Warren Commission1963 - 1964General summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Warren, EarlBiographical information on significant figures.Biography
Warren, EarlPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington at the Constitutional ConventionPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington Writing Farewell AddressPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington's cabinetPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington, BushrodPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington, BushrodBiographical information on significant figures.Biography
Washington, George, Delivers His First Inaugural Address1789Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington, George, Presiding over the Constitutional Convention1787Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington, George, Taking the Oath of OfficeApr. 30, 1789Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington, GeorgeBiographical information on significant figures.Biography
Washington, George1732 - 1799Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington, George1732 - 1799Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Washington, George1732 - 1799Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Washington, Martha1731 - 1802Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Watergate ComplexPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Watergate ScandalGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Watergate Subpoena of President Richard NixonJul. 23, 1973Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Watergate SubpoenaPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
WatergateGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Watershed ElectionsGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Wayne, James M.Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Wayne, James M.Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Ways and Means Committee, HouseGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Ways and Means Subcommittee: 105th CongressPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Weaver, James B.1833 - 1912Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Weaver, James B.1833 - 1912Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Webster, Daniel, Addresses Nullification in Congress1830Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Webster, DanielPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Webster, DanielBiographical information on significant figures.Biography
Webster, Daniel1782 - 1852Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Weddings in the White HouseTables, graphs, and other statistical information.Facts & Figures
Weights and MeasuresGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
WelfareGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Were any members of Congress appointed directly to the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Westwood, JeanPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
What administrators, apart from the clerk and the marshal, work for the Supreme Court, and what do they do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are caucuses?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are checks and balances?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are checks and balances?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are continuing resolutions? How often are they used?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are executive agreements?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are executive orders, and how many have various presidents signed?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are fast-track procedures?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are implied powers?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are implied powers?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are majority-minority congressional districts?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are PACs?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are resolutions and concurrent resolutions?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are Senate classes?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are superdelegates to a party convention?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are the differences between a joint session and a joint meeting of Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are the rates of congressional incumbents winning reelection?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are the requirements for becoming a justice of the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are the requirements for being a representative?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are the requirements for being a senator?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are the requirements for serving as president and vice president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are the solicitor general's responsibilities?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are the special duties of the House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What are the special duties of the Senate?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What city has hosted the most conventions?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What committees are there now in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Endangered Species Act do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Fair Deal propose?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Fair Labor Standards Act do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Interstate Highway Act do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Judiciary Act of 1789 do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Legal Tender Acts do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the New Frontier program try to do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Social Security Act do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Baker v. Carr?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Barron v. Baltimore?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Buckley v. Valeo?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Champion v. Ames?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Chisholm v. Georgia?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Cooley v. Board of Wardens of Port of Philadelphia?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Dartmouth College v. Woodward?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Elkins v. United States?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Engel v. Vitale?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Ex parte Milligan?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Fletcher v. Peck?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Gibbons v. Ogden?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Gideon v. Wainwright?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Gitlow v. New York?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Gray v. Sanders?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Griggs v. Duke Power Company?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Griswold v. Connecticut?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Humphrey's Executor v. United States?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Lochner v. New York?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Mapp v. Ohio?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Marbury v. Madison?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in McCulloch v. Maryland?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Miranda v. Arizona?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Near v. Minnesota?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Planned Parenthood v. Casey?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Roe v. Wade?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Roth v. United States?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Schenck v. United States?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in School District of Abington Township v. Schempp?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Scott v. Sandford?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Standard Oil Co. v. United States?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Legal Tender Cases?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Scottsboro Cases?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Slaughterhouse Cases?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Butler?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Miller?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Nixon?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Watson?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in University of California Regents v. Bakke?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Wisconsin v. Yoder?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Supreme Court rule in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What did the Welfare Reform Act do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do congressional committee staffers do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do delegates to the House do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do law clerks do at the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do lobbyists do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do political parties do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do the amendments to the Constitution say, in brief?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do the House and Senate parliamentarians do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do the House majority and minority leaders do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do the House whips do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What do the Senate whips do, and how are they chosen?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does a floor manager do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does Article I of the Constitution say, in brief?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does Article II of the Constitution say, in brief?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does Article III of the Constitution say, in brief?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does Article IV of the Constitution say, in brief?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does Article V of the Constitution say, in brief?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does Article VI of the Constitution say, in brief?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does Article VII of the Constitution say, in brief?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does Congress do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does it cost to win a House seat?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does it cost to win a Senate seat?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does separate but equal mean?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Agriculture Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the attorney general do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the chief justice of the Supreme Court do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the clerk of the House do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the clerk of the Supreme Court do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Commerce Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Congressional Budget Office do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Defense Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Education Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Energy Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the first lady get paid?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the General Accounting Office do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Health and Human Services Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the House Rules Committee do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Housing and Urban Development Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Interior Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Justice Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Labor Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the marshal of the Supreme Court do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Office of Management and Budget do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the president do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the president get paid?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the presiding officer do in the Senate? The House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the secretary of the Senate do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Speaker of the House do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the State Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Supreme Court do if a case is moot?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Supreme Court do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Transportation Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Treasury Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the Veterans Affairs Department do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the vice president do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What does the vice president get paid?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What experience have presidents had before being elected?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What figure adorns the top of the Capitol Building?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happened in the Belknap scandal?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happened in the Iran-Contra affair?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happened in the Watergate scandal?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happened in the Whiskey Ring scandal?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happens at the Supreme Court on the first Monday in October?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happens if the president dies after inauguration?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happens if the president is incapacitated after inauguration?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happens if the president resigns or is removed from office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happens if the president-elect dies or is incapacitated after the electoral college has voted but before inauguration?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What happens when new congressional districts must be drawn in a state?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What has voter turnout been like for eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What have retirement rates been for members of Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What have the results been for presidential elections?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What have voter turnouts been like over time?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a Christmas tree bill?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a class action suit?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a clean bill?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a conference committee?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a dark horse candidate?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a filibuster, and how can one be ended?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a gerrymander?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a legislative veto?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a mark-up session?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a motion to table?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a pocket veto?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a point of order?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a presidential commission?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a presidential doctrine?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a quorum?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a rider?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a shadow senator or representative?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a special election?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a test case?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a treaty?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is a veto?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is absentee voting?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is affirmative action?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is amicus curiae?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is an executive session in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is certiorari?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is common law?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is congressional immunity?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is due process?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is exclusion from Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is executive privilege?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is impeachment?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is impoundment?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is judicial restraint?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is judicial review?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is logrolling?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is patronage?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is pork-barrel politics?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is probable cause?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is separation of powers?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is separation of powers?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is strict construction?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Bill of Rights?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the cabinet?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the coattail effect?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Committee of the Whole?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the congressional "College of Cardinals"?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Consent Calendar?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the difference between "hard money" and "soft money"?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the difference between a public and a private bill?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the difference between an authorization bill and an appropriations bill?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the exclusionary rule?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Hatch Act?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the incorporation doctrine?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Lame Duck Amendment?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the line-item veto?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Monroe Doctrine?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Motor Voter Act?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the National Security Council?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the oath of office for a member of Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the oversight power?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the oversight power?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the preemption doctrine?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the presidential oath of office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the previous question motion?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the procedure for impeaching an official?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Reform Party?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the role of the House Ways and Means Committee?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Roosevelt corollary?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the seniority system in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the supremacy clause?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Supreme Court's oath of office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the Truman Doctrine?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is the War Powers Act?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What is unanimous consent?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What kinds of votes are there in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What major acts did Congress pass in the 1950s?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What major acts did Congress pass in the 1960s?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What major acts did Congress pass in the 1970s?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What major acts did Congress pass in the 1990s?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What major acts did Congress pass in the 1980s?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What major treaties has the Senate approved since the 1950s?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What percent of members of Congress have been lawyers?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What profession is most common for presidents?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What session of Congress was the longest?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What sitting governors have become president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What states have had a female senator and a female governor at the same time?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What summit conferences with the Soviets did U.S. presidents attend during the cold war?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What Supreme Court decisions were overturned by amendments to the Constitution?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What types of congressional committees are there?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What types of opinions does the Supreme Court issue?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was Abscam?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the "Great Compromise" made by the Framers of the Constitution?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the banking scandal in the House about?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the closest popular vote for president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the closest popular vote for a senator?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Compromise of 1850?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Constitutional Convention?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Court-packing scheme?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Era of Good Feelings?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Federal Reserve Bank Act?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the first law passed by Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the first presidential appointment ever made?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the GI Bill of Rights?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Great Society?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the kitchen cabinet?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the largest presidential landslide?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Lewinsky scandal about?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Marshall Plan?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Missouri Compromise?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the New Deal?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Pendleton Act?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Republican Contract with America?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the shortest session of Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Tax Reform Act of 1986?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Teapot Dome scandal?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Volstead Act?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What was the Whitewater scandal about?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What were the Articles of Confederation?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
What were the first nine states to ratify the Constitution?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Wheeler, William A.1819 - 1887Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
When did Congress first appear on television?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When did Congress formally adopt the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When did eighteen-year-olds get the vote?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When did live television coverage of the president's inaugural address begin?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When did the first woman run for president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When did the justices of the Supreme Court serve?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When did the post office become a government-run corporation?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When did the practice of including the vice president in cabinet meetings become firmly established?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When did the Social Security Administration become an independent agency?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When did the Supreme Court first tape arguments, and what happens to the tapes?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When has Congress been called into emergency session and why?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When has the country been without a vice president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When has the same party controlled the White House and both houses of Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When is inauguration day?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When the Constitution was ratified, who was eligible to vote in national elections?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the Capitol enlarged?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the Democratic Party founded?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the Federal Election Commission (FEC) created?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the first attempt to impeach a president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the first convention?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the first political convention televised?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the last lame duck session of Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the longest filibuster, and what was it about?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the longest political party convention on record?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the longest time the Supreme Court went without a change in membership?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the post office founded?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the Republican Party founded?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When was the White House built?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When were blacks allowed to vote in national elections?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When were most former presidents alive?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When were senators first elected by popular vote?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When were the "First Hundred Days"?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When were the departments represented in the cabinet created?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When were the modern conveniences added to the White House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When were voting machines first used?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
When were women allowed to vote in national elections?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where can campaign finance reports filed with the FEC be found?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where can copies of treaties be found?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where can presidential papers and speeches be found?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where can the opinions of the Supreme Court be found in printed form?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where can the original Constitution be viewed?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where can you find copies of laws? Of bills, with legislative histories?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where can you find the voting records of members of Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where did the term lame duck originate?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where is the president's hotline to Moscow located?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Where is the right of privacy mentioned in the Constitution?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which African Americans have run for president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which amendment took the longest to ratify?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which black member of Congress served the longest?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which blacks have served in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which cabinet members have been convicted of crimes?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which cabinet members have taken the Fifth Amendment?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which candidate has run for president most often?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which chief justices of the Supreme Court were former associate justices?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which colleges graduated the most Supreme Court justices?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which colleges have produced the most presidents?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which Congress enacted the most public laws?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which defeated presidential candidates eventually won?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which female member of Congress served the longest?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which first lady had the most children?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which first lady had the most influence over national affairs?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which first lady was first to hire her own press agent?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which first lady was first to hire her own staff to answer mail and press questions?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which former president was elected to the Confederate Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which full-term president did not appoint any Supreme Court justices?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which Hispanic member of Congress has served the longest?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which Hispanics have served in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which incumbent presidents did not run again?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which incumbent presidents were defeated?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which justice served longest on the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which justice wrote the most of each type of Supreme Court opinion?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which law schools graduated the most Supreme Court justices?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which member has served longest in the House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which member has served longest in the Senate?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which members of Congress have been expelled?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which members of Congress have been censured or reprimanded?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which members of Congress have died in the Capitol?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which members of Congress have fought each other in duels?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which members of Congress have married other members?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which nominees to the Supreme Court have failed to be confirmed by the Senate?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which of the current justices once clerked on the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which party had the longest series of consecutive presidencies?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which party has dominated both houses of Congress for the longest series of consecutive Congresses?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president appointed the most Supreme Court justices?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president had successful cancer surgery while in office and managed to keep it a secret?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president lived the longest?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president never attended a school of any type?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president resigned?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president served in the House after leaving office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president served in the Senate after leaving the White House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president served the shortest time in office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president started the tradition of taking the oath of office with one hand on the Bible?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president supported an illegitimate child?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which president's grandfather was also president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidential elections were decided by Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents and vice presidents served when?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents changed their names?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents died in office of natural causes?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents died on the Fourth of July?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents fought in which wars?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents got married while in office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents have been elected without winning the popular vote?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents have been generals?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents have not delivered State of the Union addresses to Congress in person?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents never went to college?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents once served in the cabinet?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents survived assassination attempts?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents were assassinated?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents were bachelors when elected?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents were delegates to the Continental Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents were denied their party's nomination?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents were distant cousins?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which presidents were impeached?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which senator served the shortest time?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which sitting senators have been indicted?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which state has produced the most presidents?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which state has produced the most vice presidents?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which state was first to hold all elections by mail?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which states have caucuses?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which states have never elected African Americans to Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which states have passed term limitation legislation?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which states have primaries?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which states have produced the most Supreme Court justices?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which Supreme Court justice attended law school classes after being nominated to the Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which Supreme Court justice killed a person in peacetime?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which Supreme Court justice was confirmed the quickest?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which Supreme Court justices once served as solicitor general?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which Supreme Court nominee was rejected in the Senate by only one vote?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which third-party candidates won more than 6 percent of the popular vote?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which tickets of sitting presidents and sitting vice presidents have lost?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice president held no other elective office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice president killed a man while in office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice president lived the longest?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice president served longest in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice president served the longest?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice president served the shortest term?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice president was the first to serve as acting president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice president was tried for treason?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidential elections did Congress decide?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidential nominees have debated?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidents died in office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidents have also been senators?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidents have cast the deciding vote in the Senate?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidents resigned from office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidents served in the Continental Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidents served in the House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidents served under more than one president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidents since 1900 tried unsuccessfully for the presidency?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Which vice presidents succeeded to the presidency?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Whig Party (1834–1856)General summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Whiskey Rebellion1792General summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Whiskey Ring ScandalGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Whistle StopGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
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White HouseGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
White PrimaryGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
White, Byron R.Photograph of an individual or event.Image
White, Byron R.Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
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Whittaker, Charles E.Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Whitten, Jamie L.1910 - 1995Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
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Who are considered the greatest justices of the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who are considered the greatest presidents?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who are the Joint Chiefs of Staff?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who became president after being elected to only one other office—the vice presidency?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who became president without having been elected to that office or to the vice presidency?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who can appoint and remove officials in the executive branch?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who can appoint and remove officials in the executive branch?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who can practice law before the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who declined to serve on the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who designed the Capitol Building?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who failed to be confirmed by the Senate for a cabinet post?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who had the least seniority in the House when elected Speaker?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who had the longest term as Speaker of the House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who had the most vetoes overridden?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who has been impeached by Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who has resigned or retired from the Supreme Court for reasons other than health, and why?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who has served as Speaker of the House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who have presidents pardoned?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who held the most cabinet posts?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who hired the first Supreme Court law clerk?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who is the only Supreme Court justice to have played professional football?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who is the only Supreme Court justice who had no political or judicial experience before being nominated?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who missed the fewest votes in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who must agree to treaties between the United States and other countries?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who must agree to treaties between the United States and other countries?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who named the White House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who never held elective office before reaching the White House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who originated the Monroe Doctrine?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who originated the term veep for vice president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who pocket vetoed the most bills?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who served in the cabinet of the most presidents?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who served longest as chief justice of the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who served longest in the cabinet?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who served the longest time in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who served the shortest time on the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who served two separate terms on the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who serves as the president pro tempore of the Senate, and what does the job involve?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who serves as the Senate majority and minority leaders?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who thought of the names president and vice president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first black contender for the vice presidential nomination of a major party?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first black Supreme Court justice?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first Catholic nominated for president by a major party?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first Catholic president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first Catholic Supreme Court justice?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first Democratic president? The others?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first divorced president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first Jewish Supreme Court justice?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first person elected president in his own right after finishing his predecessor's term in the White House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first president heard on radio? Seen on TV?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first president to ask Congress to declare war?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first president to die in office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first president to get a pension?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first president to have a press secretary?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first president to hold a press conference?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first president to travel abroad while in office?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first president's wife to be called "first lady"?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first Republican president? The others?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first senator elected on a write-in vote?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first Supreme Court nominee to testify before a Senate committee for confirmation?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first vice president to head a presidential commission?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first vice president to make an official trip abroad?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first vice president to mount a vigorous nationwide campaign?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first vice president to succeed to the presidency during his term?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first vice president who was not elected president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first Whig president? The others?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first woman nominated for vice president by a major political party?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first woman Supreme Court justice?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the first woman to preside over the Senate?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the last president to attend Congress during a floor debate?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the last Supreme Court justice never to have attended law school?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the last Supreme Court justice not to have a law degree?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the oldest justice to serve on the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the oldest member of Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the oldest president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the oldest vice president elected?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the only person elected to two terms as vice president and then two terms as president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the only president never to have married?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the only president to have a Ph.D.?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the only president to have served nonconsecutive terms?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the only president to serve more than two terms?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the only president to serve on the Supreme Court after leaving the White House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the only president who did not live in the White House?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the only Speaker of the House to serve as president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the only Supreme Court justice to be impeached?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the Supreme Court's "great dissenter"?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the youngest justice to serve on the Supreme Court?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the youngest member of Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the youngest person to be president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who was the youngest vice president elected?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who were the first black, Hispanic, Native American, female, Asian, Indian, and Hawaiian representatives and senators?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who were the first Catholics in the House and Senate? The first Jews?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who were the first female, black, and Hispanic members of the cabinet?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who were the first women to chair committees in the House and Senate?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who were the Keating Five, and what did they do?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who were the presidents whose sons also became president?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who writes the Supreme Court's opinions?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Who wrote the first dissent in a Supreme Court case?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Whose departure from the Supreme Court caused the longest vacancy?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Why do states sometimes gain or lose seats in Congress?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Why is election day on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Why is the New Hampshire primary important?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Why was Medicare legislation important?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Why was the Yellowstone National Park Act important?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
Why were the Alien and Sedition Acts passed?A question with a concise answer.Q & A
William Henry Harrison Memorial ArmbandPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" CartoonPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Williams, Anthony, Mayor of Washington, D.C.Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Willkie, Wendell L.1892 - 1944Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Wilson Depicted as a PharoahPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Wilson, Edith1872 - 1961Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Wilson, Edith1872 - 1961Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Wilson, Henry1812 - 1875Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Wilson, JamesBiographical information on significant figures.Biography
Wilson, JamesPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Wilson, Woodrow, in League of Nations CartoonPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Wilson, Woodrow, Signing Legislation1916Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Wilson, Woodrow1856 - 1924Photograph of an individual or event.Image
Wilson, Woodrow1856 - 1924Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Winner Take AllGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
WiretappingGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
WitnessesGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Wolf, Frank, Offers an AmendmentPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Women in CongressGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Women Members of Congress, 1917–20031917 - 2003Tables, graphs, and other statistical information.Facts & Figures
Women of 71st CongressPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Women Picket the White HousePhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Women Registering to VotePhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Women's SuffrageGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Women's SuffrageGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
WomenGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
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Woods, William B.Biographical information on significant figures.Biography
Workers World Party (1959– )General summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Workload of the CourtGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
World War I1914 - 1918General summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
World War II1939 - 1945General summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Wright, JimPhotograph of an individual or event.Image
Wright, JimBiographical information on significant figures.Biography
Write-In VoteGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Writing OpinionsGeneral summary of issues, concepts, processes, events, and historical figures.Encyclopedia Entry
Writing to a Member of CongressTables, graphs, and other statistical information.Facts & Figures


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