Concept information
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political science
American politics and society
United States Presidency
principles of government
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political science
American politics and society
United States Supreme Court
principles of government
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
principles of government
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criminology
key organizations (criminology)
United States Supreme Court
principles of government
Preferred term
powers of Congress
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- ad-hoc committees
- admission of new states
- appropriations bills
- Army-McCarthy hearings
- bipartisanship
- campaign finance
- caucuses
- censure
- checks and balances
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- cloakrooms
- cloture
- commerce clause
- committees
- conference committees
- confirmation power of the Senate
- Congress and commerce
- congressional ethics
- congressional immunity
- congressional investigations
- congressional oath of office
- congressional voting methods
- constitutional amendments
- constitutional amendments affecting the presidency
- contempt of Congress
- exclusion of members of congress
- expressed powers
- filibustering
- foreign policy powers
- franking
- Gibbons vs. Ogden
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- House of Representative elections
- House of Representatives
- House of Representatives calendars
- how a bill becomes a law
- impeachment power
- implied powers
- impoundment
- iran-contra hearing
- Iraq War Resolution
- joint committees
- joint session
- Library of Congress
- line-item veto
- lobbying and Congress
- majority leader
- minority leader
- non-voting members of congress
- patronage
- pork-barrel spending
- power of the purse
- power to investigate
- power to raise an army
- power to select the President
- President and Congress
- private bills
- reapportionment
- redistricting
- senate
- senate calendars
- senate elections
- Senate impeachment rules
- senatorial courtesy
- seniority system
- sergeant at arms
- sessions of Congress
- Seventeenth Amendment
- spoils system
- Supreme Court and Congress
- Teapot Dome scandal
- television coverage of Congress
- treaty power
- two-thirds rule
- vetoes and veto overrides
- Voting Rights Act
- war powers
- war powers resolution
- Watergate hearings
- whitewater investigations
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/powers_of_Congress
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