The Sixteenth Edition of this best-selling text considers the 2016 elections and discusses the agenda of the new Congress, White House-Capitol Hill relations, party and committee leadership changes, judicial appointments, and partisan polarization, as well as covering changes to budgeting, campaign finance, lobbying, public attitudes about Congress, reapportionment, rules, and procedures. Always balancing great scholarship with currency, the best-seller features lively case material along with relevant data, charts, exhibits, maps, and photos. -- Amazon.com.

Part I.In search of the two Congresses -- 1. The two Congresses -- 2. Evolution of the modern Congress -- Part II. A. Congress of ambassadors -- 3. Going for it : recruitment and candidacy -- 4. Making it : the electoral game -- 5. Being there : Hill styles and home styles -- Part III. A deliberative assembly of one nation -- 6. Leaders and parties in Congress -- 7. Committees : workshops of Congress -- 8. Congressional rules and procedures -- 9. Decision making in Congress -- Part IV. Policy making and change in the two Congresses -- 10. Congress and the President -- 11. Congress and the bureaucracy -- 12. Congress and the courts -- 13. Congress and organized interests -- 14. Congress, budgets, and domestic policy making -- 15. Congress and national security policies -- Part V. Conclusion -- 16. The two Congresses and the American people -- Appendix A. Party control : presidency, Senate, House, 1901-2017 -- Appendix B. Internships : getting experience on Capitol Hill.