Delegates to Congress

Delegates to Congress

In Legislation

Delegates to Congress in the U.S. Code: Title 48, Chapter 16

The current, permanent, in-force federal laws regulating delegates to congress are compiled in the United States Code under Title 48, Chapter 16. It constitutes “prima facie” evidence of statutes relating to Territories (including delegates to congress) of the United States. The readers can further narrow their legal research on the topic 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.
• 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.
• Binder, Sarah A. Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Bond, Jon R., and Richard Fleisher, eds. Polarized Politics: Congress and the President in a Partisan Era. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarerly Press, 2000.
• Davidson, Roger. H. The Role of the Congressman. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
• Evans, C. Lawrence. Leadership in Committee: A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Behavior in the U.S. Senate. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991
• Fisher, Louis. Constitutional Conflicts between Congress and the President. 4th ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.
• Hall, Richard I. Participation in Congress. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996.
• Jacobson, Gary C. The Politics of Congressional Elections. 6th ed. New York: Pearson-Longman, 2004.
• King, David C. Turf Wars: How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
• Krehbiel, Keith . Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
• Loomis, Burdett , ed. Esteemed Colleagues: Civility and Deliberation in the U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000.
• Mayhew, David R. Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking and Investigating, 1946–1990. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Universtiy Press, 1991.
• Pool, Keith T., and Howard Rosenthal. Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Sinclair, Barbara. Legislators, Leaders, and Lawmaking: The U.S. House of Representatives in the Postreform Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
• Swift, Elaine K. The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787–1841. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
• Ahuja, Sunil, and Robert E. Dewhirst, eds. Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003.
• Baker, Ross K. Friend and Foe in the U.S. Senate. New York: Free Press, 1980.
• Binder, Sarah A . Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
• Cain, Bruce, John Ferejohn, and Morris Fiorina. The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
• Davidson, Roger. H , Susan Webb Hammond, and Raymond W. Smock, eds. Masters of the House: Congressional Leaders Over Two Centuries. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998.
• Evans, C. Lawrence , and Walter Oleszeck. Congress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican Majority. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
• Fiorina, Morris P. Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment. 2d ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989.
• Herrnson, Paul S. Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2004.
• Jones, Charles W. Separate but Equal Branches: Congress and the Presidency. 2d ed. New York: Chatham House Publishers, 1999.
• Kingdon, John W. Congressmen’s Voting Decisions. 3d ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.
• Krutz, Glen. Omnibus Legislating in the U.S. Congress. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001.
• MacNeil, Neil. Forge of Democracy: The House of Representatives. New York: McKay, 1963.
• Oleszek, Walter. Congressional Procedures and the U.S. Policy Process. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001.
• Price, David E. The Congressional Experience: A View from the Hill. 2d ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000.
• Sinclair, Barbara . The Transformation of the U.S. Senate. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
• Thurber, James A., ed. The Battle for Congress: Consultants, Candidates, and Voters. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.