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Honor in the House : Speaker Tom Foley /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biggs, Jeffrey R., 1941-
Other Authors: Foley, Thomas S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pullman : Washington State University Press, [1999]
Subjects:
Foley, Thomas S.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
United States. > Congress. > House > Speakers > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
United States > Politics and government > 1989-
Table of Contents:
  • Western roots
  • Congress in the 1960s
  • The 1970s: prelude to House leadership
  • In the leadership: the Reagan years
  • Majority leader
  • Into the Maelstrom: the speakership
  • A new democratic speaker with an established Republican president
  • War without and war within
  • Congress on the defensive: the "house bank" and other "scandals"
  • The end of "gridlock"
  • Unified government: looking for a majority
  • Legislating a presidential agenda
  • Unseating a Speaker: the 1994 reelection race
  • What lies ahead, what's left behind.