Congressional Pay and Benefits

Congressional Pay and Benefits

In Legislation

Congressional Pay and Benefits in the U.S. Code: Title 2, Chapter 45

The current, permanent, in-force federal laws regulating congressional pay and benefits are compiled in the United States Code under Title 2, Chapter 45. It constitutes “prima facie” evidence of statutes relating to Congress (including congressional pay and benefits) of the United States. The reader can further narrow his/her legal research of the general topic (in this case, Congressional Pay and Benefits of the US Code, including congressional pay and benefits) by chapter and subchapter.

Resources

Further Reading

• Aberbach, Joel D. Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1990.
• Bond, Jon R., and Richard Fleisher, eds. Polarized Politics: Congress and the President in a Partisan Era. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarerly Press, 2000.
• Fisher, Louis. Constitutional Conflicts between Congress and the President. 4th ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.
• King, David C. Turf Wars: How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
• Mayhew, David R. Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking and Investigating, 1946–1990. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Universtiy Press, 1991.
• Swift, Elaine K. The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787–1841. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
• Binder, Sarah A . Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
• Evans, C. Lawrence , and Walter Oleszeck. Congress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican Majority. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
• Jones, Charles W. Separate but Equal Branches: Congress and the Presidency. 2d ed. New York: Chatham House Publishers, 1999.
• MacNeil, Neil. Forge of Democracy: The House of Representatives. New York: McKay, 1963.
• Sinclair, Barbara . The Transformation of the U.S. Senate. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
• Baker, Ross K . House and Senate. 3d ed. New York: Norton, 2001.
• Deering, Christopher J., and Steven S. Smith. Committees in Congress. 3d ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1997.
• Hibbing, John R. Congressional Careers: Contours of Life in the U.S. House of Representatives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
• Longley, Lawrence D., and Walter J. Oleszek. Bicameral Politics: Conference Committees in Congress. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press,
• Rohde, David W. Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
• Arnold, R. Douglas. The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1980.
• Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
• Galloway, George B. History of the House of Representatives. Rev. ed. New York: Crowell, 1976.
• Krehbiel, Keith. Information and Legislative Organization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
• Polsby, Nelson W. How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.