Vital Statistics on Congress 2008

Norman J.Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News and writes a weekly column,""Congress Inside Out,"" for Roll Call. Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the W. Averell Harriman Chair. He is a frequent media commentator on American politics. Ornstein and Mann have collaborated on several books, including The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing and How to Get It Back on Track (Oxford, 2006). Michael J.Malbin is the executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute and professor of political science at the State University of NewYork--Albany. His books include The Election After Reform: Money, Politics and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).

" Vital Statistics on Congress 2008 is a vital tool to anybody interested in the United States Congress. Whether you are a congressional scholar, a journalist, or even a congressional aide, this book will be very useful since it is overflowing with interesting details on Congress. It includes some of the most visible and widely demanded statistics on campaign finance to the harder to find statistics on congressional staff and operating expenses." —Barri Bulla, University of Oklahoma, APSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter|"For students of US politics, it [is] a goldmine." —K.C. Fraser, Reference Reviews