The American Congress Third Edition, Online Version © Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003 Additional Reading  Several  recent essays and papers on congressional politics have been selected to supplement the chapters of the text.   The papers are written by important scholars on congressional politics.  Many of these papers provide useful references for finding additional books and articles on congressional politics.  The papers are in PDF format.
	Chapter	Readings
Chapter 1	The American Congress:  Modern Trends	Jason Casellas,  "Latino Representation in Congress"
Chapter 2	Representation and Lawmaking: The Constitutional and Historical Context	Richard S. Beth & Michael F. Fauntroy, "Is the Committee of the Whole the House? Implications of Michel v. Anderson for District of Columbia Representation"
Chapter 3	The Rules of the Legislative Game	Don Wolfensberger, "Suspended Partisanship in the House:  How Most Laws Are Really Made"
Chapter 4	Congressional Elections and Policy Alignments	McConnell v. FEC (2003) NEW! Michael Malbin and Anne Bedlington, "Members of Congress as Contributors: When Every Race Counts"
Chapter 5	Members’ Goals, Resources, and Strategies	available soon
Chapter 6	Parties and Leaders	Ronald M. Peters, "Caucus and Conferences: Party Organization in the U.S. House of Representatives"
Chapter 7	The Standing Committees	available soon
Chapter 8	The Floor and Voting	available soon
Chapter 9	Congress and the President	Sarah Binder,  "The Consequences of Legislative Stalemate" Richard Fleisher, Jon Bond, and B. Dan Wood, "Which Presidents Are Uncommonly Successful in Congress" Gary Jacobson, "Partisan Polarization in Presidential Support" Barbara Sinclair, "The President in the Legislative Process: Preferences, Strategies, and Outcomes" Brandice Canes-Wrone and Ken Shotts, "The Conditional Nature of Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion"
Chapter 10	Congress and the Courts	Sarah Binder and Forrest Maltzman, "Senatorial Delay in Confirming Federal Judges, 1947-1998"
Chapter 11	Congress, Lobbyists, and Interest Groups	available soon
Chapter 12	Congress and Budget Politics	available soon
Chapter 13	The Spatial Theory of Legislative Politics	available soon