2017 Conference

Logistics

Dates: June 15-16, 2017

Location: Library of Congress

Organizer: Colleen Shogan

Agenda

Thursday, June 15, 2017

8:30am-9:00am: Continental Breakfast and Coffee

9:00am-9:15am: Welcome from Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress

9:15am-10:45am: The Role of Party in Congressional Decision-Making

Panel Chair: Josh Huder (Georgetown)

Paper: James Curry (Utah) and Frances Lee (University of Maryland), Non-Party Government in Congress: Bipartisan Lawmaking and Party Power in Congress

Discussant: Wendy Schiller (Brown University)

Paper: Eleanor Neff Powell (Wisconsin) and Jason Casellas (University of Houston), Understanding the Historical Evolution of Party-Sanctioned Legislative Distancing

Discussant: Jason Casellas (University of Houston)

10:45am-12:15pm: The Transformative Historical Role of Race and Gender

Panel Chair: Kate Scott (United States Senate Historian’s Office)

Paper: Vanessa Tyson (Scripps), Context and Commitment: A Historical Understanding of Multiracial Coalitions in the House of Representatives

Discussant: Gisela Sin (University of Illinois)

12:15pm-1:30pm: Buffet Lunch

1:30pm-2:30pm: Docent tour of the Library of Congress

2:30pm-4:00pm: The Budget and Appropriations Process in Modern Congressional History

Panel Chair: Arthur Burris (CRS)

Paper: Molly Reynolds (Brookings) , Who Builds the Party Brand? The Politics of House Appropriations Amendments

Discussant: David Karol (University of Maryland)

Paper: Scott Frisch (California State University) and Sean Kelly (California State University), Hyde Amendment and the Modern Congressional Appropriations Process

Discussant: Nolan McCarty (Princeton)

Paper: Kate Krimmel (Barnard), Rights by Fortune or Fight? Reexamining the Addition of Sex to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

Discussant: Michele Swers (Georgetown)

4:00pm-5:30pm: Roundtable on Congressional Reform

Panel Chair: Matt Glassman (CRS)

Panelists: David Obey (Former Member of Congress), Mickey Edwards, (Former Member of Congress (Invited)), Eric Schickler (Berkeley), David Mayhew (Yale), Sarah Binder (GWU/Brookings)

5:30pm-6:30pm: Reception in Members' Room with Display from Congressional Collection

6:30pm-8:30pm: Dinner in Members' Room and Lecture from Gordon Wood

Friday, June 16, 2017

8:30am-9:00am: Continental Breakfast and Coffee

9:00am-10:45am: Committees in the Historical House

Panel Chair: John Haskell (Advisory Panel on Defense Acquisition/Claremont)

Paper: Benjamin Schneer (Florida State University) , Tobias Resch (Harvard), Dan Carpenter (Harvard), and Maggie McKinley (Harvard), Petitions and Legislative Committee Formation: Theory and Evidence from Revolutionary Virginia and the Early U.S. House

Discussant: Richard Bensel (Cornell)

Paper: Charles Stewart III (MIT) and Nicolas Dumas (MIT), Rise and Decline of Select Committees in the House, 1789-1829

Discussant: Anthony Madonna (University of Georgia)

Paper: Chris Den Hartog (Cal Poly), and Craig Goodman (University of Houston-Victoria), Nature of Committee Agenda Control in the Antebellum House of Representatives

Discussant: Scott Mackenzie (UC Davis)

10:45am-11:00am: Break

11:00am-12:30pm: The Historical and Political Legacy of Newt Gingrich

Panel Chair: Jacob Straus (CRS)

Paper: Matt Green (Catholic University) and Jeffrey Crouch (American University), Newt Gingrich as an Oppositional Leader

Discussant: Jennifer Victor (George Mason)

Paper: Julian Zelizer (Princeton), Confrontations: Newt Gingrich, Jim Wright and an Explosion of Partisan Warfare in 1980s America

Discussant: Mike Crespin (University of Oklahoma)

12:30pm-1:30pm: Carryout lunch provided