House and Senate

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. Second Edition [stated]. Later printing. Trade paperback. Very good. 249, [7] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Senator Patrick J. Leahy-With the admiration and best wishes of a fellow admirer of the films of Gregory Peck. Ross K. Baker 3/24/2000. Ross K. Baker, Professor, received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a research Associate at the Brookings Institution before joining the Rutgers faculty. Professor Baker's fields of interest are: American Government and U.S. Legislative Politics. He is the author of following books: "The Afro-American; "American Government" with Gerald Pomper and W. Carey McWiliams: "Friend and Foe in the U.S. Senate", "The New Fat Cats"; "House and Senate"and "Strangers on a Hill"; and "Is Bipartisanship Dead?" He was contributing editor to American Demographics, a member of the editorial board of Polity, and is currently a Member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today. Professor was a Fulbright Lecturer at the Swedish Institute of International Relations in Stockholm and served as guest editor of its journals Internationella Studier and Varldspolitikens Dagsfragor. He was Visiting Professor at Haverford College in 1992 and Visiting Professor at the University of Leipzig (Germany) in 2000. He served as a consultant to the Democratic caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives and senior advisor to Senators Patrick J. Leahy [D-VT] and Chuck Hagel [R-NE]. In 2008, 2012, he was Scholar in Residence in the Office of the Democratic Leader of the U.S. Senate and served in that capacity against in 2016. Drawing on interviews with United States senators who previously served in the House of Representatives as well as journalists and staff members, this volume provides a portrait of the two American Houses of Congress. It describes the important distinctions that separate the House and the Senate. Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Vermont from 1975 to 2023, and also served as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2012 to 2015 and from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee at various points during his 48-year tenure. Leahy is the third-longest-serving U.S. senator in history. After Leahy retired from the Senate in 2023, Mayor Miro Weinberger announced that Burlington International Airport would be renamed for Leahy. Leahy expressed gratitude following the announcement, saying, "I am gratified that the airport where I took my first flight as a teenager is now well-positioned for Vermont's future.