Congressional Accountability

Finding the law: Congressional Accountability in the U.S. Code

A collection of general and permanent laws relating to congressional accountability, passed by the United States Congress, are organized by subject matter arrangements in the United States Code (U.S.C.; this label examines congressional accountability topics), to make them easy to use (usually, organized by legal areas into Titles, Chapters and Sections). The platform provides introductory material to the U.S. Code, and cross references to case law. View the U.S. Code’s table of contents here.

Congressional Accountability

In Legislation

Congressional Accountability in the U.S. Code: Title 2, Chapter 24

The current, permanent, in-force federal laws regulating congressional accountability are compiled in the United States Code under Title 2, Chapter 24. It constitutes “prima facie” evidence of statutes relating to Congress (including congressional accountability) of the United States. The reader can further narrow his/her legal research of the general topic (in this case, Congressional Accountability of the US Code, including congressional accountability) by chapter and subchapter.

Resources

Further Reading

• Baker, Richard A., and Roger H. Davidson, eds. First among Equals: Outstanding Senate Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1991.
• Davidson, Roger. H. The Role of the Congressman. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
• Hall, Richard I. Participation in Congress. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996.
• Krehbiel, Keith . Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
• Pool, Keith T., and Howard Rosenthal. Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Ahuja, Sunil, and Robert E. Dewhirst, eds. Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003.
• Cain, Bruce, John Ferejohn, and Morris Fiorina. The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
• Fiorina, Morris P. Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment. 2d ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989.
• Kingdon, John W. Congressmen’s Voting Decisions. 3d ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.
• Oleszek, Walter. Congressional Procedures and the U.S. Policy Process. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001.
• Thurber, James A., ed. The Battle for Congress: Consultants, Candidates, and Voters. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.
• Binder, Sarah A , and Steven S. Smith. Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997.
• Fenno, Richard F., Jr. Home Style: House Members in Their Districts. New York: Addison-Wesley Longman, 2003.
• Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. On The Hill: A History of the American Congress. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980.
• Maltzman, Forrest. Competing Principals: Committees, Parties, and the Organization of Congress. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
• Sinclair, Barbara . Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2000.
• Bianco, William, ed. Congress on Display, Congress at Work. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
• Edwards, George C. At the Margins: Presidential Leadership of Congress. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989.
• Hibbing, John R , and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Congress as Public Enemy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Loomis, Burdett. The New American Politician. New York: Basic Books, 1998.
• Schickler, Eric. Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.