Congressional Committees

Congressional Committees

In Legislation

Congressional Committees in the U.S. Code: Title 2, Chapter 43

The current, permanent, in-force federal laws regulating congressional committees are compiled in the United States Code under Title 2, Chapter 43. It constitutes “prima facie” evidence of statutes relating to Congress (including congressional committees) of the United States. The reader can further narrow his/her legal research of the general topic (in this case, Congressional Committees of the US Code, including congressional committees) by chapter and subchapter.

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Further Reading

• Arnold, R. Douglas. Congress and the Bureaucracy: A Theory of Influence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979.
• Baker, Ross K . House and Senate. 3d ed. New York: Norton, 2001.
• Binder, Sarah A , and Steven S. Smith. Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997.
• Cannon, David T. Race, Redistricting, and Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
• Deering, Christopher J., and Steven S. Smith. Committees in Congress. 3d ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1997.
• Fenno, Richard F., Jr. Home Style: House Members in Their Districts. New York: Addison-Wesley Longman, 2003.
• Gaddie, Ronald Keith, and Charles S. Bullock III. Elections to Open Seats in the U.S. House: Where the Action Is. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
• Hibbing, John R. Congressional Careers: Contours of Life in the U.S. House of Representatives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
• Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. On The Hill: A History of the American Congress. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980.
• Krasno, Jonathan S. Challengers, Competition, and Reelection. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994.
• Longley, Lawrence D., and Walter J. Oleszek. Bicameral Politics: Conference Committees in Congress. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press,
• Maltzman, Forrest. Competing Principals: Committees, Parties, and the Organization of Congress. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
• Peters, Ronald M., Jr. The American Speakership: The Office in Historical Perspective. 2d ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
• Rohde, David W. Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
• Sinclair, Barbara . Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2000.
• Wilson, Woodrow. Congressional Government. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
• Arnold, R. Douglas. The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1980.
• Bianco, William, ed. Congress on Display, Congress at Work. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
• Binkley, Wilfred President and Congress. New York: Knopf, 1947.
• Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
• Edwards, George C. At the Margins: Presidential Leadership of Congress. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989.
• Fenno, Richard F . Congressmen in Committees. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.
• Galloway, George B. History of the House of Representatives. Rev. ed. New York: Crowell, 1976.
• Hibbing, John R , and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Congress as Public Enemy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Kazee, Thomas A., ed. Who Runs for Congress? Ambition, Context, and Candidate Emergence. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1994.
• Krehbiel, Keith. Information and Legislative Organization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
• Loomis, Burdett. The New American Politician. New York: Basic Books, 1998.
• Mayhew, David R. Congress: The Electoral Connection. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1974.
• Polsby, Nelson W. How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Schickler, Eric. Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
• Smith, Steven S. Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1989.