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Take a look at the classs and trips we have going on this month also visit us at the splays and poets we just open this first satellite location i am pretty i am happy to welcome Julian Zelizer about his timely book the fierce urgency of now analysis of how Lyndon Johnson singled into the achieved the historic legislative successes of the mid 1960s. Professor Julian Zelizer looks back and offers a compelling case of a previous the celts of johnsons role may have been exaggerated or slightly off ...

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Despite attacks from their colleagues, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her peers are part of a proud tradition of influential legislators who moved their party left.

While all statesmen are politicians, not all politicians achieve the level of respect to be considered a statesman. David Skaggs is a statesman.

(Archived document, may contain errors) 5 April 1978 NA TIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AN EFFECTIVE CONGRESS (Executive Summary)

A postmortem

Officials

Of course, Jordan came to the House in 1973 with certain advantages. Her reputation as the first black woman elected to Congress from the South preceded her. And while there were dozens of look-alike white male fresh­men, no one was likely to confuse Bar­bara Jordan with anyone else. Still, it was another black woman—Yvonne Braithwaite Burke of Los Angeles—who was singled out as the real star; Burke had been temporary chairman of the 1972 Democratic Convention and her picture, not Jordan�...

AP Former state Sen. Bill Morris of Waukegan has some advice for the 19 House Democrats who want to overthrow Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. “They have to come up with a better name,” said Morris, a member of the so-called Crazy Eight group of independent-minded Democrats who sparked a six-week battle in 1977 for the Illinois Senate presidency. Morris was mostly joking. “The 19,” as the group is currently known, has bigger challenges than what to call itself, not least of which...