Dualities

For Tuesday:

• Davidson, ch. 2, and Freeman (on Sakai, resources)

Some basics:

• Congressional pay and benefits
• Congressional staff titles
• Congressional staff salaries (find individuals here)

Two Congresses

• Article I of the Constitution and lawmaking
• Burke's speech to the electors of Bristol (Davidson, p. 6-7): Delegate v. Trustee
• Demographics and Descriptive representation
• Women in Congress

Two Chambers

House-Senate differences

House members often run for Senate, but sitting senators in the modern era do not run for the House.

Few House members run for president, and seldom get far when they do. But a fairly large fraction of current senators have gone for the White House:

• Michael Bennet (D-CO), 2020
• Cory Booker (D-NJ) 2020
• Ted Cruz (R-TX) 2016
• Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) 2020
• Lindsey Graham (R-SC) 2016
• Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) 2020
• Rand Paul (R-KY) 2016
• Mitt Romney (R-UT), 2008, 2012
• Marco Rubio (R-FL) 2016
• Bernard Sanders (I-VT) 2016, 2020
• Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), 2020

In the House, see

• Seth Moulton (D-MA), 2020
• Eric Swalwell (D-CA) 2020

Two Parties

Four Strategic Postures Since 2000 (House, by election year) 

                    Majority                          Minority 

In Party       Dems 08, 20                 GOP 06, 18

                    GOP 00, 02, 04, 16       Dem 10,12,14

                                                          Dems 22

                  

Out Party     GOP 10,12,14              GOP 08, 20

                    Dem 06, 18                   Dem 00, 02, 04, 16

                    GOP 22