Landmark Debates in Congress

<span style=font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';></span><p style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;><span><strong>Expert presentation and analysis of more than 50 pivotal historical debates from the Declaration of Independence to authorizing war with Iraq</strong></span></p><p style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;> <br /><span>If taxation is a badge of freedom let me assure my friend that the poor people of this country are covered <span style=color: black;>all over with the insignia of freemen.</span><span style=color: black;>—Rep. William Jennings Bryan 1894</span> </span></p><span style=font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';></span><p class=MsoNormal style=margin: 0in 0in 0pt;><span style=font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';><br />A fascinating look at history in the making—and an eye-opening presentation of some remarkably colorful rhetoric—<em>Landmark Debates in Congress</em> is a one-volume resource to more than 50 pivotal congressional debates. From colonial independence and individual rights to slavery territorial expansion and presidential powers debates include the Bill of Rights (1789) the Revenue Act of 1894 (the origin of the income tax) FDR's court-packing plan (1937) Medicare and Medicaid (1965) Richard Nixon's 1974 impeachment and the Iraq War resolution (2002). </span></p><div class=telerik_paste_container style=overflow: hidden; position: absolute; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; left: 4px; margin: 0px; padding-right: 0px;border-width: 0px;> </div>