Which Speaker said that 'House rules, if you know how to use them, are tilted toward allowing the majority to get its will done'?
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Which Speaker has been criticized for having a more negative than positive role in priority setting?
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Which Senate leader said: 'I am not a king and I have no princes'?
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When was the Speaker first allowed to appoint members of the Rules Committee?
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Who argues that the Rules Committee quickly transformed 'into an arm of the leadership. It can now be relied on to be a traffic cop that serves the leadership instead of one that serves the chairman of the committee'?
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Who argues that Senators are able to negotiate earmarks in their favour and therefore are more likely to toe the party line?
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Which recent Congress exhibited the exact conditions described in conditional party government?
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What do Cox and McCubbins call a highly unified majority party?
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What percent of support for the Republican leadership among freshmen was there in the first 100 days of the 104th Congress?
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Who argues that 'without a fellow partisan in the White House, majority party leaders in Congress have much more freedom and flexibility than they might enjoy under unified government'?
