I. II. III. IV. V. VI. ELECTIONS TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The debate on popular election A. Elections practices in the colonial and state B. The Constitutional Convention and ratification The First Federal Elections A. District vs. general elections B. Campaigning for national office Congressional regulation of House elections A. Mandating district elections B. Establishment of uniform election dates C. Suffrage regulations 1. The Reconstruction amendments 2. Women's suffrage 3. Lowering the voting age Contested elections and seating controversies A. The development of House procedures B. Determining vote fraud and Members' qualifications Special Elections Campaign Financing I. II. III. IV. V. REAPPORTIONMENT AND REDISTRICTING House Series, Volume Two Traditional forms of representation in Great Britain and the colonies A. Territorial B. Population C. Representation in the Continental Congress and the Federal Convention Constitutional order of representation A. First apportionment and the Federal Census B. Proposed amendments for district size The House's role in reapportionment and redistricting B. Methods of apportionment Court Action on reapportionment A. Early appeals to the Supreme Court B. Baker vs. Carr and the decisions of the 1960s Congress and the regulation of state districts I. II. III. IV. V. VI. COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES House Series, Volume Three Historical Sources A. Committees in the British Parliament B. Reliance on committees in the colonial legislatures The Rise of the Standing Committees A. Expansion of the committee system, 1800-1840 B. Reliance on committees for consideration of legislation The Challenge of Committee Organization A. Progressive reform B. Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 C. The reforms of the 1970s 1. The growing influence of subcommittees Committee Chairmen A. From Clay to Cannon--The Speakers' domination of B. The Seniority System C. The Modern Chair Committee Membership A. Early assignment procedure B. The rule of Ways and Means C. Assignments in the wake of the reforms of the 1970s PARTY ORGANIZATION AND LEADERSHIP I. Origins of congressional parties II. III. IV. V. A. Fiscal and foreign policy divisions in the 1790s C. The reign of the caucus Parties in the nineteenth-century House A. Party organization in an age of sectional conflict The reinvigoration of congressional parties A. Speaker Reed and party loyalty B. Party roles in the aftermath of the revolt against 1. The fate of the caucus and conference C. Party structure in the modern House The Speaker of the House A. Evolution of the office 1. Colonial precedents for an active legislator B. The Speaker's authority in the twentieth century I. II. RULES House Series, Volume Five The House establishes its own rules A. Gradual accumulation of rules and procedures C. Adoption of Thomas Jefferson's manual in 1837 Codifying the House Rules A. The Speaker joins the select Committee on Rules, 1858 C. The new rules of 1880 and the standing Committee on Rules III. Rules for an effective and responsive legislature IV. V. VI. A. The Reed Rules of 1890 B. Revision of the rules following the revolt against Cannon Rule changes and the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 The Challenge to the Committee on Rules A. Controversy over the 21-day rule B. The reforms of the 1970s The Parliamentarian A. Guiding legislation B. The importance of precedent |