Leaders in the Senate at the present time.
A list of some of the more important committees in each House of
Congress.
The procedure by which a bill becomes a law, from the time when it is introduced to the time it goes into effect as a law of the land.
Bills introduced in Congress by the representative from your district. The purposes of these bills. (Consult at home, at your public library, at your newspaper office.)
Follow the course of debate on some measure in the House of
Representatives or the Senate in the files of the Congressional
Record (files may be found at your public library, or at the
newspaper offices, if not in your school).
Conflict of opinion regarding the powers of the President and of the Senate in connection with the discussion of the treaty of peace with Germany.
"Filibustering" in Congress.
Clause 2 of section 6 of Article I of the Constitution says, "No person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office." Why is this?
The privileges of members of Congress under clause I of section 6 of Article I of the Constitution. Reasons for these privileges.
"Log-rolling" in Congress, what it is and why so called.