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On September 14, 2017, Congressman Steve Cohen introduced a concurrent resolution asking that the sense of Congress be expressed that: (1) Congress and the states should consider a constitutional amendment to reform the Electoral College and establish a process for electing the President and Vice President by a national popular vote, and (2 ...
Renamed the Legislative Reference Service as the Congressional Research Service, gave it greater autonomy from the Library of Congress, expanded the services that it provided, and directed it to triple its staff. [7] Revised the executive oversight functions of standing committees, requiring committees to issue biennial reports. [8]
For instance, the conference report for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was a key document that reconciled differences between the House and Senate versions of the tax reform bill, leading to major changes in the U.S. tax code. [12] Another example is the conference report for the Affordable Care Act, which helped finalize the landmark ...
(The Center Square) – Legislators in Washington, D.C., have taken a number of steps over the past few days to push for insurance and pharmaceutical reforms to be passed before the end of the year.
Typical examples include the House of Representatives, where all members are elected in single-member districts, by First-past-the-post voting, instant-runoff voting, or by the two-round system. The number of representatives from each state is set in proportion to each state's population in the most recent decennial census .
Congressional archives consist of records and personal papers that document the history and activities of the United States Congress.The National Archives and Records Administration’s Center for Legislative Archives collects and preserves the official administrative and legislative records of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA) (Pub. L. 104–1 (text)), the first piece of legislation passed by the 104th United States Congress, applied several civil rights, labor, and workplace safety and health laws to the U.S. Congress and its associated agencies, requiring them to follow many of the same employment and workplace safety laws applied to businesses and the federal ...
By the end of the war, many legislators had concluded that the only way to recapture their lost stature was to reform the Congress. A key leader of the reform movement was the veteran Wisconsin senator Robert M. La Follette Jr., scion of Wisconsin's famous political dynasty. In 1945, he and Oklahoma representative A. S. "Mike" Monroney co ...