Dimensions: 1.25'' x 9.50'' x 6.25'' 300 pages AEI Press  (Washington) Publication Date: September 1999 Paperback ISBN: 0844741167 Hardcover ISBN: 0844741159

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Written by three of the nation's best-known and most respected political scientists, Vital Statistics on Congress is the definitive source of essential information for all who watch Congress--as citizens, journalists, political scientists, students, lobbyists, and even as staff and members of the institution. The volume is an invaluable tool for observing and evaluating the changing shape of politics and the legislative branch of government. The eleventh edition is updated to include new statistical information on the 2000 elections and the 107th Congress. More than 100 tables and figures illustrate the dramatic changes taking place in Congress. In addition to the chapters on the members of Congress, elections, campaign finance, committees, the congressional staff, Congress's workload, budgeting, and voting alignments, this edition contains an introductory essay that describes Congress during three key eras over the past fifty years and identifies the major changes and patterns of stability in that period.

Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at AEI and a regular contributor to Roll Call. Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Senior Fellow in American Governance at the Brookings Institution. Michael J. Malbin is a professor political science at the State University of New York, Albany, runs its Washington Semester Program, and is the executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute.