Migration and health: fact, fiction, art, politics by Tam Clarence C

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>The recent Immigration Bill debate in the United States Congress has again re-ignited the polemic regarding immigration policy. …”
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Perils of paradigm: Complexity, policy design, and the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program by Vogel Jason M

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>The Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP), mandated by the United States Congress in the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, attempts to protect public health from adverse endocrine effects of synthetic chemical compounds by establishing a new testing regime. …”
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JÓZEF MARIA HOENE-WROŃSKI’S CONCEPT OF “THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION” by Mirosław Bochenek

“…Political power in the federation was to be vested in a congregation representing all nations, modelled on the United States Congress. However, economic issues were to solved by individual member state on their own.…”
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Community structure in Congressional cosponsorship networks by Zhang, Y, Friend, A, Traud, A, Porter, M, Fowler, J, Mucha, P

“…We study the United States Congress by constructing networks between Members of Congress based on the legislation that they cosponsor. …”

Welcome to the Machine: A Model of Legislator Personality and Communications Technology Adoption by Gary E. Hollibaugh, Adam J. Ramey, Jonathan D. Klingler

“…Political scientists have long considered ideology, partisanship, and constituency in determining how members of the United States Congress make decisions. Meanwhile, psychologists have held that personality traits play central roles in decision making. …”
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US Tobacco 21 is Paving the Way for a Tobacco Endgame by Samuel C J Kim, Jason E Martinez, Yanjun Liu, Theodore C Friedman

“…On December 19, 2019, a measure to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21 from 18 was passed by the United States Congress and signed by President Donald Trump. …”
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Liberalization for Sale: Corporate Demands and Lobbying over FTAs by Michael Plouffe

“…I examine this relationship in the case of three free trade agreements passed by the United States Congress in 2011. I combine public statements from firms on the FTAs with corporate lobbying activities and find that both lobbying firms and those that lobbied and publicly disclosed their policy positions were more productive than the typical publicly traded firm. …”
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Title IX Literacy by Ellen J. Staurowsky, Erianne A. Weight

“…Celebrated by many and lamented by a vocal few, Title IX holds the distinction of being one of the few pieces of legislation passed by the United States Congress that has emerged as an iconic symbol unto itself. …”
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Stem cell therapy for neuropathic pain treatment by Dario Siniscalco, Francesco Rossi, Sabatino Maione

“…Pain is a national healthcare priority in US: the United States Congress has declared the present decade (2001-2010) as the “Decade of Pain Control and Research”. …”
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The Reasons behind Failure of Egypt Revolution and Collapse of Morsy Administration by محمد ستوده, mohammadali sadeghzadeh

“…We sincerely hope that with your election, the new administration and the United States Congress will have the opportunity for the first time to review the regional and international outcomes of that disastrous agreement without any reservations, as was promised to the voters.them. …”
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The rise of partisanship and super-cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives. by Clio Andris, David Lee, Marcus J Hamilton, Mauro Martino, Christian E Gunning, John Armistead Selden

“…It is widely reported that partisanship in the United States Congress is at an historic high. Given that individuals are persuaded to follow party lines while having the opportunity and incentives to collaborate with members of the opposite party, our goal is to measure the extent to which legislators tend to form ideological relationships with members of the opposite party. …”
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The politics and economics of recovery in colonial Philippines in the aftermath of World War I, 1918-1923 by Ybiernas, Vicente Angel S.

“…Self-government was primarily legislated by the United States Congress: the Philippine Bill of 1902 set the legal framework for the eventual establishment of an all-Filipino Philippine Assembly in 1907, while the Jones Law of 1916 completely removed the Americans from the legislature by abolishing the Philippine Commission and creating the all Filipino Philippine Senate.…”
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Debtor’s and creditor’s stronghold: Bankruptcy chapter 7, 11 & 13 by Faith Cajudo Orillaza

“…This law ensures creditors repay loans by engaging in a particular process. The United States Congress has enacted a decree governing bankruptcy in the form of the Bankruptcy Code. …”
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Politicians’ Facial Width-to-Height Ratio and their Electoral Success by Irena Pavela Banai, Benjamin Banai, Mladen Mavar

“…We used a digital database containing photographs of political candidates for the United States Senate (United States Congress and United States House of Representatives) and gubernatorial elections, representing Republican and Democratic Party. fWHR was calculated for the 259 male and 52 female candidates. …”
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Who is Right, Who is Wrong? Interpreting 14 Points of Wilson – A Case Study of Deontic Modals and their Meanings by Matulewska Aleksandra, Mikołajczyk Marek

“…The document titled “14 points of Wilson” was announced by the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson in his speech addressed to the United States Congress on 8th January 1918. The speech is one of the most well known documents of the First World War as it touched upon several world issues. …”
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Nine Decades of Dealing with Diversity: Language-Related Attitudes, Ideologies and Policies in Federal-Level US Legislative and Executive Documents from 1774 to 1861 by Sandor Czegledi

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Mask-Wearing as a Partisan Issue: Social Identity and Communication of Party Norms on Social Media Among Political Elites by Jieun Shin, Aimei Yang, Wenlin Liu, Hye Min Kim, Alvin Zhou, Jingyi Sun

“…This study draws on the social identity approach (SIA), to examine how political elites (i.e., members of the 116 th United States Congress) communicated norms about mask-wearing on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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A Congressional Twitter network dataset quantifying pairwise probability of influence by Christian G. Fink, Nathan Omodt, Sydney Zinnecker, Gina Sprint

“…We present a social network dataset based on interactions between members of the 117th United States Congress between Feb. 9, 2022, and June 9, 2022. …”
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Introduction to the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program and the latest strategic plan by Lin Zhu, Weiping Lian, Hongbo Chen, Yumei Li

“…The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the main coordination plan for earthquake disaster reduction at the level of the Federal Government of the United States. The United States Congress has made periodic adjustments in the form of planned reauthorizations. …”
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Gender and affiliation differences in topic selection in U.S. congressional speeches by Lenard Dragana Božić, Omazić Marija

“…The aim of this paper was to study gender differences in topic choice selection using the corpus of speeches given in the 113th United States Congress. We also looked at whether there are topic choice selection differences with respect to party affiliation and chamber, and finally, whether conversational topics chosen by male and female politicians correlate with any other category we measured in our corpus. …”
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