California Lawmaker

California Lawmaker
Author: Alexander C. Vassar
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2017-01-21
Genre: Legislators
ISBN: 9781541381896
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California's Legislature and the people who have served in it have an amazingly rich history. Some have held positions of national importance like Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger or US Supreme Court Justices Joseph McKenna and Stephen J. Field (all of whom served in the Assembly). Henry G. Worthington, an Assemblyman elected in 1862, would later serve as a pallbearer at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Not all these stories end well. California legislators have also been fatally wounded in a bar brawl or died in a drunken canoeing accident. Current through the start of the 92nd Session (2017-18), this is the story of the 4,424 men and women who have served in the California Legislature. In addition to the current session, this book explores the history of the legislature since 1849.

Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress

Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
Author: Craig Volden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-10-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0521761522
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This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

Stephen M. White

Stephen M. White
Author: Stephen Mallory White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1903
Genre: United States
ISBN:
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Broderick and Gwin

Broderick and Gwin
Author: James O'Meara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1881
Genre: History
ISBN:
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Between Two Empires

Between Two Empires
Author: Lately Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN:
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California's Legislative Gadfly

California's Legislative Gadfly
Author: Robert Peterson
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781413720556
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This is the story of Ralph Morrell, a retired U.S. Navy chief warrant officer who made a second career of bird-dogging California lawmakers and exposing everything from simple disingenuousness to blatant dishonesty and questionable legality by members of the California Legislature. Morrell sincerely believes in the value of upholding the tenets of this country's founding documents. He also honestly believes that too often these tenets are being ignored and/or trampled upon in the political arena. Lawmakers accused him of acting irresponsibly and in the process doing damage to the integrity of the Legislature and to the public's perception of government. Morrell, in fact, at times acted akin to Don Quixote, flailing at proverbial political windmills. But the message in this story is clear: never underestimate the persistence of an angry determined citizen. Ralph Morrell clearly gave the California Legislature a fight for a full accounting of the people's money.

California Legislative Leaders

California Legislative Leaders
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Total Pages:
Release: 1977
Genre: Apportionment (Election law)
ISBN:
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Interviews with legislative leaders during the Knight/Brown administrations. Copies of photographs and of supporting documentary material inserted. Issues discussed include party organization and campaigns; California water plan; legislative reapportionment; capital punishment and the Caryl Chessman case; mental health; civil rights; oil industry and politics; education; government reorganization; etc. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, v. 1; Thomas W. Caldecott. Perspectives on the Republican Party and the Legislature: A Prominent Assemblyman Reviews the Goodwin Knight Era. Hugo Fisher. State Senator from San Diego, 1958-1962. Frank D. Lanterman. Crusades of a Republican Legislative Leader, 1951-1978; Water, Mental Health, Education, Ways and Means. Richard Richards. South of the Tehachapis: A Southern California Senator Comments on the 1953-1966 era. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, v. 2; Bruce F. Allan. California Oil and Water, and the Politics of Reform, 1953-1960. Hugh M. Burns. Legislative and Political Concerns of the Senate Pro Tem, 1957-1970. With an introduction by Richard E. Combs. Luther H. Lincoln. Young Turk to Speaker of the California Assembly, 1948-1958. Joseph A. Rattigan. A Judicial Look at Civil Rights, Education, and Reapportionment in the State Senate, 1959-1966. Bruce W. Sumner. California State Assemblyman and Chairman of the Constitution Revision Commission, 1964-1970. With these, 1 portfolio: copies of documentary material supporting Richards interview.