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47-53	March 2008 Article Beltway Bacchanal: Congress lives high on the contributor’s dime: Congress lives high on the contributor's dime By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Ethics; Restaurants; United States. Congress PDF TEXT IMAGES
53-61	July 2007 Article Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.'s lobbyists for hire By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Ethics; Human Rights; Lobbyists; Political ethics; Turkmenistan; United States. Congress PDF TEXT IMAGES
63-69	January 2007 Article Republic or empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States By Chalmers A. Johnson SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Democracy; Executive power; Bush, George W.; Imperialism; Keynesian economics; Military Industrial Complex; Military policy; 2001-; Political corruption; Powers and duties; Representative government and representation; Republicanism; United States. Congress PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	January 2007 Notebook/Article Uncle Sam By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Democracy; Bush, George W.; Military Industrial Complex; 2001-; Political corruption; Powers and duties; Uncle Sam (Nickname); United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
27-35	March 2006 Article The case for impeachment: Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as member of U.S. Congress; Causes; Bush, George W.; Iraq War, 2003-; Conyers, John; Military leadership; 2001-; Political corruption; Powers and duties; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
31-38	July 2005 Article The great American pork barrel: Washington streamlines the means of corruption By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Lobbyists; Political corruption; United States. Congress; Waste in government spending PDF TEXT IMAGES
26	October 2004 Readings/Article Block the vote! SEE ALSO: Raymond, Allen; McGee, Chuck; Corrupt practices; Elections; Political corruption; Telephone in politics; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
65-68	May 2004 Article The passion of the Rumsfeld: Congress stages an ordeal by rubber stamp By Wayne Biddle SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Career as U.S. secretary of defense; Rumsfeld, Donald; Military policy; 2001-; United States. Congress; United States. Dept. of Defense; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
88	February 2002 Article Sprawling for prisoners By Robert Whiteside SEE ALSO: Arizona; Election districts; Florence; Legal status, laws, etc.; Population; Prisoners; Prisons; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
12-15	March 1999 Notebook/Article Exorcism By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Impeachment; Mass media; Trials (Impeachment); United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
9-11	June 1997 Notebook/Article Field trip By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Capital and capitol; 1993-; Press conferences; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
25-26	May 1997 Readings/Article Everyone's price (public sector) SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Ethics; Political action committees; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
43-53	March 1995 Article A revolution, or business as usual? By William Kristol, Frank I. Luntz, Mike Murphy, James P. Pinkerton, Ralph Reed, and David Frum SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Caricatures and cartoons; Leadership; 1993-; Gingrich, Newt; Public Relations; Reed, Ralph; The Republican Party; United States. Congress; Kristol, William PDF IMAGES
6-9	January 1995 Notebook/Article Thunder on the right By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: 1993-; The Republican Party; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
21	May 1992 Readings/Article Praying for good press By Richard C. Halverson SEE ALSO: Chaplains; Investigative reporting; Prayers; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
15-16	October 1986 Readings/Article Character in '86 By Geoffrey Garin SEE ALSO: Elections, 1986; 1981-1989; Political candidates; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
48-55	July 1982 Article How everyone but the rich got shut out of Congress By Walter Shapiro SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Campaign management; Election law; Reform; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
52	July 1982 Article Cheap seats By Walter Shapiro SEE ALSO: Election districts; Politics, Practical; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
34-36	January 1981 The public record/Article The public record SEE ALSO: Administrative agencies; Control; Vogt, George; Government correspondence; Mice; Publication of proceedings; Records and correspondence; Bruns, Roger; United States. Congress; Your government inaction (Book) PDF IMAGES
11-15	August 1980 Washington/Article Well-meaning government: Size and possibility By Michael A. Scully SEE ALSO: Powers and duties; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
41-117	October 1979 Article Fooling with the budget: How Congress causes inflation By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Consumption (Economics); Deficit financing; Inflation (Finance); United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
26-32	September 1979 Article Rewriting the Constitution: Life, liberty, and a balanced budget By Benjamin Martin SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Constitutional amendments; Constitutional conventions; 1977-1981; Rules and practice; Tax and expenditure limitations; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
24-28	April 1979 Washington/Article The disadvantaged Congress: Generous pensions are not the only incentive to early retirement By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Financial disclosure; Pensions; Term of office; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
32-38	March 1978 Article Disguising the tax burden: Little-known facts beneath the rhetoric of reform By Paul Craig Roberts SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Income tax; 1977-1981; Tax shelters; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
113-115	March 1977 The fourth estate/Article In which it is argued that the balcony has become the pit By Peter H. Schuck SEE ALSO: Claims vs. Periodical Correspondents' Association; Consumers Union; Freedom of the press; Government and the press; Periodical Correspondents' Association; Press coverage; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
113-117	March 1977 The fourth estate/Article In which it is argued that the balcony has remained true to itself By Neil MacNeil SEE ALSO: Claims vs. Periodical Correspondents' Association; Consumers Union; Government and the press; Lobbying; Periodical Correspondents' Association; Press coverage; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
16-19	October 1976 Article The essential reform By David Lebedoff SEE ALSO: Apportionment (Election law); Election districts; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
18-28	May 1975 Article The most embarrasing list in Washington By Barney Collier SEE ALSO: Evacuation of civilians; Federal government; Leadership; Military planning; Nuclear bomb shelters; Nuclear warfare; Official secrets; United States. Congress; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
36-41	February 1975 Article Victory for the big, dumb money By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. vice president; Caricatures and cartoons; Committees; Legislative hearings; Millionaires; 1974-1977; Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich); Testimony before U.S. Senate Rules Committee, 1974; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
40-43	October 1974 Article Crimes of weakness By Taylor Branch SEE ALSO: Impeachment; 1969-1974; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); United States. Congress; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; Watergate Trial, Washington, D.C., 1973 PDF IMAGES
14-23	March 1974 Article The sunny side of the energy crisis By Taylor Branch SEE ALSO: Energy policy; Lobbying; 1969-1974; 1971-1981; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
61	December 1973 Countersigns/Article Conscience and Congress: The dilemmas of obedience By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Cox, Archibald; Career as special Watergate prosecutor; Impeachment; 1969-1974; Relations with U.S. Congress; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Special prosecutors; United States. Congress; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 PDF IMAGES
16-22	September 1973 The easy chair/Article How to save some of your tax money By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; 1971-1981; United States. Congress; Waste (Economics) PDF IMAGES
41	July 1973 Countersigns/Article A way out for Richard Nixon By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Executive power; Impeachment; 1969-1974; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Staff; United States. Congress; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 PDF IMAGES
63-72	July 1973 Article Profiles in caution By Taylor Branch SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Executive power; Leadership; Legislative power; 1969-1974; Relationship with U.S. Congress; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Separation of powers; United States. Congress; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 PDF IMAGES
47	September 1972 Countersigns/Article In praise of inefficient government By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Celler, Emanuel; Government productivity; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
21-40	October 1970 The easy chair/Article The coming upheaval in Congress By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Albert, Carl Bert; 1969-1974; Reform; Speaker; United States. Congress; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
45-51	March 1970 Article The Nixon supremacy By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Cabinet officers; 1969-1974; Public opinion; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Staff; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
28-38	March 1969 Washington report/Article 536 characters in search of a legislative program By Arthur I. Blaustein SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Legislation; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
30-40	December 1968 Washington report/Article Strom's dirty movies By John Corry SEE ALSO: Fortas, Abe; Committees; Freedom of speech; Nomination for chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1968; Obscenity (Law); Officials and employees; Selection and appointment; Thurmond, Strom; United States. Congress; United States. Supreme Court; Views on Abe Fortas; Views on U.S. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
58-71	October 1968 Article Inside Capitol Hill: How the House really works By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Committees; 1963-1969; Politics, Practical; United States. Congress; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
67-74	July 1968 Article Charles Evers: Mississippi's representative man? By Robert Canzoneri SEE ALSO: African American politicians; Career as Mississippi congressional candidate; Career in politics; Evers, Charles; Jackson; 1951-; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
37-40	October 1967 Washington insight/Article The capital's bourgeoisie By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Home rule; Officials and employees; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
79-81	January 1967 Article What the new Congress needs most By Richard Walker Bolling SEE ALSO: Committees; 1963-1969; Rules and practice; United States. Congress; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
37-46	October 1966 Washington insight/Article The CIA under fire By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Central Intelligence Agency; Committees; Espionage; McCarthy, Eugene J.; Fulbright, J. William (James William); Powers and duties; Secret service; United States. Congress; Views on Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
50	April 1966 Washington insight/Article Too many blank checks? By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Powers and duties; Separation of powers; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
41-47	January 1965 Article Washington's second banana politicians By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Career in politics; King, Larry L.; Office practice in government; Officials and employees; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
62-68	December 1964 Article A forgotten lesson of the assassination By Carl Bakal SEE ALSO: Firearms; Gun control; National Rifle Association; Powers and duties; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
14-21	October 1964 The editor's easy chair/Article How to save a few million lives—and save money at the same time By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Birth control; Population; Population assistance, American; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
116-121	October 1964 Washington insight/Article The hidden change in Congress By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Leadership; 1951-; 1963-1969; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
56-62	May 1964 Article Arms and the big money men: Part III. The disarmament blues By Julius Duscha SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Defense contracts; Disarmament; Military Industrial Complex; United States. Congress; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
72-78	May 1964 Article A new kind of national election By Joseph S. Clark SEE ALSO: Elections; 1963-1969; Patronage, Political; Separation of powers; Term of office; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
59-65	April 1964 Article Arms and the big money men: Part II. The costly mysteries of defense spending By Julius Duscha SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Career as U.S. secretary of defense; Defense contracts; Military Industrial Complex; McNamara, Robert S.; United States. Congress; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
39-47	March 1964 Article Arms and the big money men: Part I. Congressmen, contractors, and the “defense” pork barrel By Julius Duscha SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Career as U.S. secretary of defense; Defense contracts; Military Industrial Complex; Military policy; Political ethics; McNamara, Robert S.; United States. Congress; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
86-94	May 1963 Article What the GOP is doing in the South: And how the result may be—paradoxically—a more liberal Congress By Virginius Dabney SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Conservatism; The Democratic Party; Byrd, Harry Flood; 1951-; The Republican Party; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
96-102	February 1962 Public and personal/Article The Kennedy era: Stage two By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Executive power; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
92-95	September 1960 Public and personal/Article Forecast for the next Congress By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Elections, 1960; 1953-1961; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
94-101	April 1960 Public and personal/Article In defense of congressional investigations By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Ethics; Governmental investigations; 1953-1961; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
73-86	March 1960 Article Two millionaires, two senators, and a Faubus: The curious constellation of Arkansas politics By Louis E. Lomax SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Career as U.S. senator; Career in Arkansas politics; Civil Rights; Elections, 1960; Fulbright, J. William (James William); McClellan, John L. (John Little); 1951-; Faubus, Orval Eugene; Political corruption; Racism; School integration; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
77-82	February 1959 Article The Florida swamp that swallows your money By L. Boyd Finch SEE ALSO: Davis, Arthur Vining; Ethics; Flood control; Flood dams and reservoirs; Homes and haunts; 1953-1961; Reclamation of land; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
74-77	January 1959 Article What to expect from the new Congress By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Career in politics; Civil Rights; The Democratic Party; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Leadership; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1953-1961; The Republican Party; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Rayburn, Sam; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
92-98	November 1958 Article The American genius for hypocrisy By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Ethics; Hypocrisy; 1953-1961; Political ethics; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
48-55	July 1958 Article A grass-roots guide to '58 and '60 By William G. (William Graves) Carleton SEE ALSO: Election forecasting; 1953-1961; 1960; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
14-20	May 1958 The editor's easy chair/Article How to keep Congress honest By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Conflict of interests; Corrupt practices; Ethics; Journalistic ethics; Political ethics; United States. Congress; United States. Federal Communications Commission PDF IMAGES
46-53	April 1958 Article CIA: Who watches the watchman? By Warren Unna SEE ALSO: Dulles, Allen Welsh; Career as CIA director; Career as U.S. senator; Legislative oversight; Mansfield, Mike; 1953-1961; National security; Powers and duties; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
55-60	October 1956 Article The fight for Congress By Charles B. Seib SEE ALSO: Elections, 1956; 1953-1961; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
73-78	September 1956 Article Why labor should vote Republican By Arthur Larson SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; Labor laws and legislation; Leadership; 1953-1961; The Republican Party; Trade-unions; United States. Congress; Working class PDF IMAGES
31-37	April 1955 Article The triumph of the moderates By William G. (William Graves) Carleton SEE ALSO: Elections, 1954; 1953-1961; Political parties; Political psychology; Radicalism; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
12-17	January 1955 The easy chair/Article One-way partnership derailed By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; Echo Park Dam (Colo.); Elections, 1954; Management; 1953-1961; National parks and reserves; United States. Congress; United States. Rural Electrification Administration PDF IMAGES
49-52	October 1953 The easy chair/Article Let's close the national parks By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Management; National parks and reserves; Public use; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
66-73	June 1952 Article Vox populi and foreign policy By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Cold War; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Powers and duties; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
77-81	June 1952 Article Who will win in '52? By Louis Hyman Bean SEE ALSO: Elections; 1952-; United States. Congress; Voting research PDF IMAGES
93	June 1952 Article “Old men for council, young men for war . . .” By Richard L. (Richard Lewis) Neuberger SEE ALSO: Age factors; Leadership; Political leadership; United States. Congress; Veterans PDF IMAGES
82-83	March 1952 Article Make them tell Congress the truth—or take the consequences By Lloyd N. Cutler and Herbert L. Packer SEE ALSO: False testimony; Legislative hearings; Libel and slander; Reform; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
90-94	October 1951 Article Trial by television By Allen Klots SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Conduct of court proceedings; Kefauver, Estes; Legislative hearings; Television and politics; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
64-67	November 1950 The easy chair/Article But sometimes they vote right too By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Authoritarianism; Career as U.S. senator; Ethics; McCarthy, Joseph; Representative government and representation; Specialists; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
228	October 1950 Article Our own exposed deformity By George Parsons Lathrop SEE ALSO: Ethics; Representative government and representation; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
41	June 1950 Article The secretary of state By Henry Adams SEE ALSO: Cabinet officers; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
36-40	April 1950 Article Forecasting the 1950 elections By Louis Hyman Bean SEE ALSO: Election forecasting; 1945-1953; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
60-65	March 1950 Article The chaos of Congress By Albert L. Warner SEE ALSO: Government productivity; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
106	August 1947 Article Congress getting out of hand By James Fenimore Cooper SEE ALSO: Ethics; Legislative power; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
509-512	September 1935 Editor's easy chair/Article The hat of Congress in the ring By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
766-768	May 1933 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Banks and banking; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
385-396	March 1931 Article Can business manage itself? By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Consumption (Economics); Depressions; Elections, 1930; Industrial management; 1929-1933; Overproduction; Price regulation; To 1933; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
253-256	January 1931 Editor's easy chair/Article Limitations of government By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Elections, 1930; Immigrants; Jewish-Arab relations; Jews; 1917-1948; 1917-1949; 1919-1933; Palestine; Prohibition; Territorial expansion; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
516	September 1930 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise SEE ALSO: Reform; Unemployment; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
147-153	July 1930 Article Squirt-gun politics By Charles Austin Beard SEE ALSO: Legislative oversight; Reform; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
144-152	January 1930 Article Whom does Congress represent? The problem behind the lobbies By Charles Austin Beard SEE ALSO: Business and politics; Ethics; Lobbying; 1783-1789; 1919-1933; Political ethics; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
389-392	August 1929 Editor's easy chair/Article Current maladies By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Big business; Death and burial; Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of; Ford, Henry; 1923-1929; Prohibition; United States. Congress; Views on prohibition PDF IMAGES
20-28	June 1928 Article The American political system: As seen by an English observer By Harold Joseph Laski SEE ALSO: Comparative government; 1923-1929; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 562-570	April 1927 Article Under the cast-iron dome: A study in Congressional Rococo By H.G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight SEE ALSO: 1923-1929; Powers and duties; Privileges and immunities;

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