RESOURCES ON CONGRESS

Recommended by Don Wolfensberger

Director, The Congress Project
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Recent Books on Congress:

The American Congress: The Building of Democracy. 2004. Julian E. Zelizer, editor. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company.

Congress on Display, Congress at Work. 2000. William T. Bianco, editor. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press.

Congress Reconsidered. 2001. Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer, editors.

Washington, D.C., CQ Press 2001, seventh edition.

Oleszek, Walter, J. Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process. 2001. Washington,
D.C.: CQ Press, fifth edition.

Davidson, Roger H., and Walter J. Oleszek. Congress and Its Members. 2000. Washington,
D.C.: CQ Press, seventh edition.

Fenno, Richard F. Learning to Govern: An Institutional View of the 104th Congress. 1997.
Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution Press.

Hamilton, Lee H. How Congress Works and Why You Should Care. 2004. Bloomington,
Ind.: Indiana University Press.

Hilley, John L. The Challenge of Legislation: Bipartisanship in a Partisan World. 2008.

Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

Mann, Thomas E., and Norman Ornstein. The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing
America and How to Get It Back on Track. 2007. New York: Oxford University Press.

Masters of the House: Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries. 1998. Roger H.
Davidson, Susan Webb Hammond, and Raymond W. Smock, editors. Boulder: Westview Press.

Mayhew, David R. America’s Congress: Action in the Public Sphere, James Madison Through
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Newt Gingrich. 2000. New Haven: Yale University Press.

New Majority or Old Minority? The Impact of Republicans on Congress. 1999. Nicol C. Rae
and Colton C. Campbell, editors. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Oleszek, Walter J. 2007. Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process. 2007.
Washington: CQ Press.

The Permanent Campaign and Its Future. 2000. Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, editors.
Washington, D.C.: AEI and Brookings.

Peters, Ronald Mr., Jr. The American Speakership: The Office in Historical Perspective. 1990,
1997. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Polsby, Nelson W. How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change. 2004. New
York: Oxford University Press.

The Postreform Congress. 1992. Roger H. Davidson, editor. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Remaking Congress: Change and Stability in the 1990s. 1995. James A. Thurber and Roger
H. Davidson, editors. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

Remini, Robert V. The House. The History of the House of Representatives. 2006. New
York: Harpers Collins.

Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations. 2006. James A. Thurber, editor.

Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Inc.

Rohde, David W. Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House. 1991. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.

Sinclair, Barbara. Legislators, Leaders and Lawmaking: The U.S. House of Representatives in
the Postreform Era. 1995. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

_________________. Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U.S.

Congress. 2000. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

Strahan, Randall. Leading Representatives: The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of he U.S.
House. 2007. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Wolfensberger, Donald R. Congress and the People: Deliberative Democracy on Trial. 2000.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
Websites on Congress:
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Association of Centers for the Study of Congress: http://www.congresscenters.org/

Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress: http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
The Carl Albert Center for Congressional Research and Studies:
http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/cachome.html
The Center on Congress (Indiana U.): http://congress.indiana.edu/
Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (American U.): http://spa.american.edu/ccps/
The Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives:
http://www.archives.gov/legislative/index.html
Congressional Sources on the Internet: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/congress.html
C-SPAN Online: http://www.cspan.org/
The Dirksen Congressional Center: http://www.dirksencongressionalcenter.org/
Government Printing Office “Legislative Branch Resources”:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legislative.html
The Hill Online: http://www.hillnews.com/
House Rules Committee “How Congress Works”: http://www.rules.house.gov/comm_procs.htm
Howard Baker Center for Public Policy: http://bakercenter.utk.edu/main/
John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress: http://www.nyu.edu/brademas/
Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/index.html
Roll Call: http://www.rollcall.com/
Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Inc.: http://www.byrdcenter.org/
Senate Historical Office:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Senate_Historical_Office.htm
SenateRulesCommittee:“How Congress Works”:

http://rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=HowCongressWorks.SenateFloorProcedur
es
Stennis Center for Public Service: http://www.stennis.gov/
THOMAS: http://thomas.loc.gov/
Woodrow Wilson Center, Congress Project: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/congress
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