...Brian Dolan; Stephen Beitler; Antoine Johnson Abstract In September 1975, Frank Moss, an eighteen-year veteran of the Senate from Utah, donned the scruffiest clothes he could find and walked into a small clinic in New York that catered to Medicaid patients. Using a phony Medicaid card supplied...

...Sarah Khasawinah; Brian Kaskie Address correspondence to: Sarah Khasawinah, PhD, MHS, Deputy Staff Director, United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-SC), 628 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510. E-mail: Sarah_Khasawinah@aging.senate.gov 08 02...

... in the Brexit policymaking. Table 1 Brexit in committees’ minutes ^a EU affairs committee Period ^b Period ^c Chamber of Deputies’ EAC (%) 26.1 45.0 Senate’s EAC (%) 50 82.7 a We measured ‘presence of Brexit’ as an issue being either a part...

.../standard_publication_model ) Abstract: On first becoming consul in 70 bc, Pompey asked his friend Varro to provide him with a manual on how to conduct a session of the senate. The manual was later lost. Varro returned to the subject decades later in one or more letters to Oppianus. Aulus Gellius reports on both...

... to restructure this chamber? This research aims to explain the impasse of the reform of the Senate through evaluating three approaches. After stressing the qualities and defects of the legal inheritance and party bargaining frameworks, this article argues that the joint-decision trap perspective can help...

... political markets, few have examined agriculture. This study addresses contributions from twenty-six PAC aggregates to senators in the 103rd Congress. Using a tobit model, legislative attributes, such as tenure, committee membership, and ideology, were regressed on contributions. Overall, the agricultural...

... reproduced from contemporary documents and communiqués, including a letter from the Senate to the shahanshah Khusro II pleading for peace in 615, an official account of the siege of Constantinople in 626, and Heraclius' final victory dispatch from Persia. The dating is shown to be reliable...

... of the establishment of imperial residences in places other than in Rome, along with the implications of the city’s designation as New Rome; the sections that follow discuss the status of Constantinople in the mid- to late-fourth century (with a particular focus on the senate); the significance of Rome in the same...

... issues and epigraphy adds to the picture. In sum, this chapter suggests that it is necessary to read the history of fifth-century Rome in ways that account for all major interest groups—emperor and court, senate, papacy—lest its development in this period be misinterpreted as witnessing a swift eclipse...

... of popular assemblies: even within Polybius' own account the senate's predominance emerges strongly, in spite of his desire to emphasize the mixed nature of Rome's constitution. aristocracy democracy Polybius Punic War Rome Romans Syme R Tullius Cicero M cos 63 Athens Athenians Carthage Carthaginians...

... associations. The discussion of all-female collegia and organizations involves a comparison with the order of matrons and the conventus matronarum or women’s senate in Rome, and the Augustan seating arrangements of women in the theatres. On the one hand women were treated...

...The delegates viewed the U.S. Senate as a small body of leaders who could stop the unruly democratic urges of the House of Representatives. Representation in the Senate became the principle political battleground between the broad and narrow nationalists. The proponents of the New Jersey Plan...

... orders, often in derogation of openness and minority rights in the House. Minority complaints have been frequent and occasionally extreme. Conversely, constant filibuster threats in the Senate have enhanced minority party power there. An ‘inverse ratio’ between the greater complexity, importance...

... Francisco City Attorney, and strongly favored the city's case. Hearing took place in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, but with Lane in office and a strong San Francisco lobbying team, it was clear who would be the victor. The valley defenders fought furiously, but they were out numbered...

...The content of any legislation the Senate passed would be determined in negotiations between the Labor and Finance Committees. The business community’s desire for federal preemption greatly increased the Labor Committee’s influence. Developments in the House strengthened the Democratic leadership...

...In August 1973, John Dent was taken to task by the president of the Steelworkers union. In September, the House Labor Committee found its jurisdiction over pension reform in jeopardy. The Senate bill included both a portability program and termination insurance. There was to be “a Donnybrook...

...In 1902, U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge led four senators from the senate committee on the territories into New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma territory. While New Mexico had operated in Spanish in its courts, schools, and politics for decades, Beveridge’s team exposed the rest of the nation...

...This chapter begins with Vandenberg’s 1928 appointment to the Senate, detailing his credentials as a moderate reformer within the Republican fold and his defense of the Supreme Court’s independence. When possible, he sought the middle ground and served as a liaison between the president...

...This chapter analyzes the role of the party as a gatekeeper to running for U.S. Senate and delves more deeply into the role of the political party as an organization in the state legislature. It measures the function of partisanship in structuring the organization of state legislatures as well...

... in successfully overriding FDR’s veto of a revenue bill, yet the process ruptured the close relationship between Barkley and FDR. The latter would not support Barkley for the vice presidential nomination in 1944. Thus, Truman joined FDR on the victorious ticket that led the former Missouri senator to become...