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386 Chapter 11 | Congress TA B L E 11 .1 Typical Workdays for a Congressional Representative Members of Congress are generally b ...

Congress and the people 387 Campaign Fund-Raising Raising money is also key to staying in office. Incumbents need money to pay f ...

388 Chapter 11 | Congress that tout their good deeds on behalf of constituents, and solicit citizens’ requests for help through ...

Congress and the people 389 Many House and Senate candidates distance themselves from the national party. For example, in a 2018 ...

390 Chapter 11 | Congress In theory, redistricting proceeds from a set of principles that define what districts should look like ...

391 NUTS & B O LT S 11 .1 Redistricting The new 9th district Previous Districts 10th—Dennis Kucinich nottuSytteB—ht31 9th—Ma ...

392 Chapter 11 | Congress Partisan Redistricting Partisan redistricting is the redrawing of legislative district lines in a way ...

Congress and the people 393 minority voters (called majority-minority districts). Figure 11.4 shows the plan the legislature ena ...

394 Chapter 11 | Congress The Responsibility–Responsiveness Dilemma As mentioned earlier, polls show that despite generally appr ...

The structure of Congress 395 constituents’ demands than to take on the responsibility of solving national problems. And when Co ...

396 Chapter 11 | Congress as members of Congress found ways to secure funding for their district or state. The late senator John ...

The structure of Congress 397 NUTS & B O LT S 11.2 Majority-Party Structure in the House of Representatives and the Senate M ...

398 Chapter 11 | Congress majority party determining committee leadership, the division of seats on committees, and the allocati ...

The structure of Congress 399 The Role of Parties and Conditional Party Government Political parties in Congress also reflect th ...

400 Chapter 11 | Congress levels in the post–World War II era in recent years. About 70 percent of all roll call votes were part ...

The structure of Congress 401 parties. But in the most recent Congress, the two parties are almost completely separated—that is, ...

402 Chapter 11 | Congress a campaign stop or a fund-raiser for a candidate with party leaders or the president. For example, Pre ...

The structure of Congress 403 Conference committees are formed as needed to resolve specific differences between House and Senat ...

404 Chapter 11 | Congress Congressional Staff The final component of the formal structure of Congress is congressional staff. Th ...

How a bill becomes a law 405 The conference committee works out any differences between the House and Senate versions of the bi ...