Sealed for 50 years, the transcripts of the executive session hearings conducted by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, as chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in 1953 and 1954, were recently opened for research. The Senate Historical Office edited the transcripts for publication by the Government Printing Office and on the…

Perhaps more than any other figure in American history, William Jennings Bryan is remembered for specific and identifiable moments of rhetorical action: the much-revered 1896 "Cross of gold" speech and the much-maligned Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925. The dissonance between these two events, at least with respect to the ways in…

Differences in political ideology between college and university administrators and federal legislators have brought about lack of communication, mistrust, and indifference between Congress and higher education. This article discusses the bridging of these differences through common understanding and collaboration to meet the challenges faced by…

The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) hosts an annual undergraduate research poster session on Capitol Hill to communicate to the US Congress the importance of undergraduate research and to express thanks for the federal funding of undergraduate research programs. At the "Posters on the Hill" event held on 19 April 2005 in the Rayburn House…

The Principle of legality of crimes and punishments (nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege) refers to the fact that an act is not considered a crime and deserves no punishment, unless the Legislator determines and announces the criminal title and its penalty before. The legality principle protects individual security by ensuring basic individual…

On September 23, 2008, Latino state legislators from throughout the United States participated in a Legislative Hearing on Pre-K and the Early Grades on Capitol Hill. The nation's leading experts on Latinos and early childhood education presented new research and information on programs and policies that work. Their testimony provided an in-depth…

While the major urban centers around the country were flooded by millions of protesters demanding immigrant rights in March 2006, the San Francisco Bay Area remained relatively quiet. A coalition of organizers, including Centro Legal de la Raza, Deporten A La Migra, and the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition mobilized a one-week hunger strike,…

This article relates the experience of one state principals' association in influencing the passage of desirable legislation. The legislative network described here has worked for Massachusetts. (Editor)

Article presented the opinions of our political leaders and policymakers with regard to their views about art education and their interests in the aesthetic survival of man. (Editor/RK)

A study involving legislators was conducted by the Region 8 Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute (Colorado) and four Region 8 States to improve State legislative support for vocational rehabilitation programs, especially delivery of rehabilitation services to the rural disabled. Suggestions for improving ways to meet legislative information…

This paper examines two issues in telecommunications policy in which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has attempted to pursue policies that were distant from the policy desires of their supervising committees in Congress, and in which congressmen made use of various instruments of congressional influence: the FCC's attempt to…

Authors offered a provocative guide to what the public response to the Coleman Report may be; they reacted both positively and negatively in the name of parents, young people, taxpayers, teachers, and legislators. (Editor/RK)

Part of a symposium on studies of legislative and judicial communications. (CH)

Article discussed the use of television broadcasting with regard to the political process, the legislators involved, and the techniques associated with television presentation. (RK)

The pattern of Chicano political representation in the territorial and state legislatures of California, Colorado, and New Mexico was examined. (NQ)