In the year of grace 1928, the U. S. continues to get along with a Congress and an Electoral College modeled as of the year 1910. Every ten years the census is taken and every ten years the ...

With Congress considering changes to the SALT cap, Goldman Sachs’ analysis found that high-income earners are continuing to ...

Rural communities dominate Congress, but the shift of population is to urban centres. (In 1910, 54% of the people of the U.S. lived on farms or in little villages; in 1920, only 48%.) ...

Less remembered today, Reconstruction-era lawmakers also overtly debated whether to include or exclude noncitizen immigrants, and other groups, from the basis of congressional reapportionment ...

But Congress kept plenary power over local laws and the budget. In the years since, aside from the financial control board ...

But Congress kept plenary power over local laws and the budget. In the years since, aside from the financial control board period of the 1990s, Congress took a relatively hands-off approach.

The second-ever Librarian of Congress, Patrick Magruder, was on vacation, and his second-in-command, Assistant Librarian J. T. Frost, was responsible for looking after the library.