Congress


Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives
Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy Series)
Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
The House: The History of the House of Representatives
On the House: A Washington Memoir
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism
True Compass: A Memoir
The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
Kings Of The Hill: How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course Of American History
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress. -John Adams
Sherman Edwards, 1776

Jon   Stewart
As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly w ...more
Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

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