Se eu fosse deputado If I were a Congressman by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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O social-trabalhismo do deputado federal Guerreiro Ramos by Américo Freire

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El límite imposible de un republicano cordobés, Antonio Jaén Morente (1879-1964) by Masaya Watanabe

“…Brief portrait of the historian and Republican Congressman Cordovan Antonio Jaén Morente, that the victory of Franco in 1939 forced, like many others, to take the path of exile.…”
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Liberalism, catholicism, and constitutionalism in 19th century Latin America: Jorge Huneeus and The Constitution before Congress (1879) by Fernando Muñoz León

“…This article contextualises and examines the trajectory and legacy of Jorge Huneeus, an important nineteenth-century Chilean constitutional law professor and congressman who sought to reconcile important commitments of his generation of Latin American jurists, such as a deep belief in Catholicism and a loyalty to the liberal ideals of his era, revealing the complexities and tensions of a legal culture in transition from a more traditional to a more modern social and cultural environment.…”
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Graphic Nonviolence: Framing “Good Trouble” in John Lewis’ March by Johannes C. P. Schmid

“…This paper investigates the graphic memoir trilogy March that U.S. Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis co-authored with Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell. …”
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Barack Obama, John Lewis, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Struggle by Glenn T. Eskew

“…The watershed election in 2008 of Barack Obama as the first President of the United States to have African ancestry resulted from the life work of such civil rights activists as U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Born on a sharecropper’s farm in 1940, the African American Lewis grew up in segregated Alabama. …”
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Anti-gender politics and the authoritarian turn in Brazil by Gustavo Gomes da Costa Santos

“… In 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, a former captain and congressman known for his racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks, was elected president of Brazil. …”
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Goldwater, Bush, Ryan and the Failed Attempts by Conservative Republicans to Reform Federal Entitlement Programs by Alf Tomas Tønnessen

“…Bush made partial privatization of Social Security a key component of his second-term domestic agenda. From 2010 to 2012 Congressman Paul Ryan advocated a reform of Medicare in which the federal government would give seniors vouchers to buy private insurance. …”
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Axiomatic Results for Weighted Allocation Rules under Multiattribute Situations by Yu-Hsien Liao

“…On the other hand, the importance or influence brought by operators may vary depending on many subjective and objective factors, such as the size of the constituency represented by a congressman, and the bargaining power of a business personnel which may vary. …”
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Unpacking Province Creation in The Philippines by Michael Tumanut

“…The tenacity and strategic actions of reform agent or policy entrepreneur (usually the congressman), sometimes assisted by social movement, is likewise found crucial in the pathways leading to reform outcomes. …”
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WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation by Rafael Evangelista, Fernanda Bruno

“…In the 2018 presidential election, Brazil elected a fringe congressman, Jair Bolsonaro, despite his radical rhetoric that would suffice to shake the public image of any candidate in the world and the lack of traditional resources of his campaign. …”
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“KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE” by Wolfgang Mieder

“… While this is a scholarly study of the proverbial language in John Lewis’s (born 1940) three books Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (1998), Across that Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change (2012), and March: Book One (2013), it is also a somewhat personal laudation of this U.S. Congressman from the state of Georgia, who is the last surviving member of the six major leaders of the Ameri-can civil rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. …”
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Segmentos econômicos e determinantes do financiamento político no Brasil by Rodrigo Dolandeli Santos

“…While small donors, also from all segments, invested preferentially in individual candidates: Congressman and state deputies. The article aimed to reflect on the existence of a specific dynamic of retribution or prospecting for political favors that depends of the company’s economic size, in addition to its respective incentives and collective sectoral interests…”
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Descripción histórica de la Institución Educativa Fulgencio Lequerica Vélez de la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias by Dioselina Iriarte Barbosa, Edgardo Passos Simanca, Amalia Peña, Ana Cecilia Puello Hernández, Marcos Suárez Ruiz

“…The institution owes its name to the father of Congressman Dr. Antonio Lequerica Martinez,who in year 1976 authorized the creation of this school,naming it after his father Antonio Lequerica Velez</p>…”
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Political and Institutional Approaches to Advancing International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Foreign Policy in 1998–2020 by V. A. Shchipkov

“…The article divides the reconstruction of this process into two periods formed by adopting two acts: in 1998 — the International Religious Freedom Act, and in 2016 — the amendment to this Act named after congressman Frank Wolf. The study concludes that over the past twenty years, religion has finally developed as an independent track of the US foreign policy, although it has been developing inconsistently and has undergone repeated corrections. …”
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The Stark law, from inception to COVID-19 blanket waivers: a review by Amrita Shenoy, Gopinath N. Shenoy, Gayatri G. Shenoy

“…Self-referral laws, therefore, are important to regulate overutilization and contain costs. In the 1980s, Congressman Fortney Stark initiated an act that was one of the precursors to one such self-referral law, known as the Stark Law. …”
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Derecho humanitario, totalitarismo y genocidio en Mariano Ruiz-Funes / Humanitarian law, Totalitarianism and Genocide in Mariano Ruiz-Funes by Jorge Novella Suárez

“…</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong>:</p><p>Mariano Ruiz-Funes was a Professor of Criminal Law, a Republican and a Congressman. He was one of the speakers in the committee for the 1931 Constitution. …”
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The influence of US international military campaigns on the adoption of Goldwater-Nichols act and its consequences by Oksana Manchulenko

“…This opposition also included members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prominent Senators and Congressman, and Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger. …”
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O Plano Nacional de Educação (Lei 10.172), de 9 de janeiro de 2001 The Educational National Plan (Law 10.172), January 9, 2001 by Jorge Fernando Hermida

“…Until its final approval, the official proposal was debated in the parliament with the PNE (a alternative proposal of the Brazilian society), elaborated together with educational syndicates, with support of senators and opposition congressman.This study pretends to realize political analyses of the two proposals, through an exploratory study, to find the origins of the proposals, its basic axiological premises and the political subjects behind its implementation.…”
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE? / by Iacocca, Lee, author 246254, Whitney, Catherine, author 188280

“…We learn what he discussed with Warren Buffett, DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche, Ronald Reagan, Senator John Kerry, Congressman John Murtha, Prince Charles and Camilla, former Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar, rapper Snoop Dogg, financier Kirk Kerkorian, Ted Turner, Bob Dole, and many more. …”