Community structure in the U.S. House of Representatives. by Porter, M, Friend, A, Mucha, P, Newman, M

A network analysis of committees in the U.S. House of Representatives. by Porter, M, Mucha, P, Newman, M, Warmbrand, C

“…Here, we investigate the U.S. House of Representatives network of committees and subcommittees, with committees connected according to "interlocks," or common membership. …”

Proxy voting in the U.S. House of Representatives: Legislative shirking in new clothing? by Franklin G. Mixon, Benno Torgler

“…Thus, it appears that the proxy voting mechanism introduced in 2020 via a U.S. House resolution represents a new configuration of traditional legislative shirking or vote skipping.…”
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The Deinstitutionalization (?) of the House of Representatives: Reflections on Nelson Polsby's “The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives” at Fifty

“…This article revisits Nelson Polsby's classic article The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives fifty years after its publication, to examine whether the empirical trends that Polsby identified have continued. …”
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The Deinstitutionalization (?) of the House of Representatives: Reflections on Nelson Polsby's “The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives” at Fifty by Jenkins, Jeffery A., Stewart III, Charles H

“…This article revisits Nelson Polsby's classic article The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives fifty years after its publication, to examine whether the empirical trends that Polsby identified have continued. …”
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Maine’s Congressional Delegation Reflections on Our Shared Ocean by Susan M. Collins, Angus King, Chellie Pingree, Jared Golden

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Solving the debt crisis: Debt relief and adjustment by LUIZ CARLOS BRESSER-PEREIRA

“…ABSTRACT On January 5, 1989, Professor Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, full professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas and editor of this Journal, presented the following testimony before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives.…”
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Cleaning OCR'd text with Regular Expressions by Laura Turner O'Hara

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Reimagining solidarity with strawberry farmworkers in the United States by Emily Nink

“…H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021—providing a path to citizenship for undocumented agricultural workers—had just passed the U.S. House of Representatives (for the second time). Supported by agricultural trade organizations and a small handful of farm labor groups as a compro­mise measure (Farmworker Justice, 2021), the bill is also opposed by farmworker advocacy groups such as the Food Chain Workers Alliance for its failure to provide stronger protections (Food Chain Workers Alliance, n.d.). . . .…”
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Barack Obama, John Lewis, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Struggle by Glenn T. Eskew

“…In 1986 he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Atlanta’s Fifth Congressional District, a seat he continues to hold today.…”
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Anti-Trafficking in the Time of FOSTA/SESTA: Networked Moral Gentrification and Sexual Humanitarian Creep by Jennifer Musto, Anne E. Fehrenbacher, Heidi Hoefinger, Nicola Mai, P. G. Macioti, Calum Bennachie, Calogero Giametta, Kate D’Adamo

“…The 2018 passage of the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the corresponding Senate bill, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), is a case study in how efforts to curb sexual exploitation online actually heighten vulnerabilities for the people they purport to protect. …”
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Sharper p-Values for Stratified Election Audits by Higgins, Michael J., Rivest, Ronald L, Stark, Philip B.

“…We give analogous results for the 2008 U.S. House of Representatives contests in California. Keywords: post-election audits; knapsack problem…”
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Human health risk assessment of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury ingestion from baby foods by Gwendolyn H. Parker, Caroline E. Gillie, Julie V. Miller, Deanna E. Badger, Marisa L. Kreider

“…Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives reported on the presence of heavy metals in raw ingredients used in baby foods and in finished baby food products themselves. …”
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Health Equity Journal: Special Issue Guest Editorial

“…In 2020, the Ways and Means Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives asked professional societies across medical disciplines to rethink their use of race-based clinical algorithms. …”
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