A school for the elected

...bition...

...Important representation...

...Present...

...Finally there is an issues seminar--per- haps the most popular part of the pro- gram--presented by the Committee on House Administration in cooperation with the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard...

...He is the author of and unapologetic, without irony, everything safe and available, Free/Style: A Direct Approach to Writing (Houghton Milflin ). some because of age, some out of sheer frustration, and a few out of fear of voter backlash...

...There has women...

...10038 10:6 November 1992 fare of the nation...

...After World War 1I when a new generation came to Congress any division rested on issues...

...In 1981 the Committee on House Administration inherited the responsibil- ity for the coordination of the program from the Select Committee on Congressional Operations...

...Elevator--Elf--Sir Edward Elgar--T.S...

...It is organized across party lines to clarify the overriding purpose of the Congress to provide for the general welCOMMONWEAL BUSINESS MANAGER n the next five months, we will be adding a business manager to our staff...

...North Carolina's original redistricting plan was turned down and replaced by one creating a long skin- ny district nicknamed the Interstate 81 dis- trict whose boundaries take in pockets of blacks living along the highway...

...Second, the House, once fond- ly dubbed "The People's Branch" by the A SCHOOL FOR THE ELECTED famed, late Speaker of the House Sam Ray- GOVERNANCE 101 burn, will have representatives from nine- teen new districts...

...Eliot--Elk-- own persistent, tiresome ideas of it, prior to our own urgent in- Ellipse...

...The third part of the program consists of the early organizational meetings of the Democratic Caucus and the Republican Conference, which are attended by all members, both newly elected and return- ing...

...This is things the way they are, a jumble face...

...Please include references and salary requirement...

...Fortunately the new congressperson is not plunged into this complicated situa- tion unaided...

...It was original- change is in the mak- and women from the Northeast and from ly meant to reflect population change, to ing which may affect the Plains states, for example, than from make sure that all citizens had equal many people more the South and the Southwest...

...But on a level deeper than that, and finally at odds with Even here the encyclopedia is biased, of course...

...The program is presented in four parts, two weeks in length...

...This briefing addresses such subjects as con- gressional ethics, legal issues pertinent to congressional service, the federal election laws as they relate to Congress, and the establishment and management of a con- gressional office...

...Elohim, the Hebrew word that means gods, a god, interesting...

...space than Montana...

...Redistricting mandated by the Constitution occurs every ten years as a result of the census...

...only lobby- then establish the boundaries of the dis- Representatives...

...ry...

...The ini- tial part of the program consists of a bi- partisan administrative briefing...

...Initially those tasks will focus on marketing and pro- motion...

...Why it didn't Movements, Stevie Wonder, Wood, the names and labels like work I'm still not sure, though I remember frantically painting accidental poetry...

...The states gress--especially that in the House of is willing to bash Congress...

...You can pull out any entry and subordinate the inside black and doing some research on the capacity of it to any argument, use any fact for any larger purpose, politi- rocks and of water to retain heat...

...Previous experience with a magazine, small business, or nonprofit organization is a plus...

...The primary differences between Democrats and Republicans in the House were party-issue differences, and within the parties there was an occasional divi- sion between liberals and conservatives...

...There...

...They entertain motions to amend the rules of the House, as well as the rules of the caucus or conference...

...Anyone interested should send a rrsum6 and a letter describing suitability for the position and acquaintance, if any, with the magazine...

...Individual names and the assigning of species, just rocks and trees and articles make claims of synthesis, and the set as a whole as- birds and things, seen with a child's detached and thoughtless pires to the presentation of general knowledge, a pretty big am- pleasure...

...CHRIS ANDERSON or God...

...But that's part of the point, and the pleasEleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) was the wife of King Louis ure...

...Readers are invited to join in our search by passing on this announcement or by letting us know of potential candidates...

...We know that, like freshmen in college sharing a new experience, the neophytes in this seminar can form life-long friendships-- often across party lines--and enduring al- liances for the work ahead...

...You go to the World Book to put ideas growing as a roadside weed in parts of the United States and back where they belong, back in perspective, "Existentialism" Canada...

...They deal with the budget, health care, environmental policy, our trade policy, ed- ucation, agriculture, AIDS, the state of our cities, and other major issues...

...Pre- sentations are made by experts from across the political spectrum drawn from aca- demia, government, and the private sec- tor...

...But some feminists object to the procedure...

...Thrush and Titmouse merit as ent vision of the world, undiscriminating, democratic, and de- much space as Paul Tillich and Dylan Thomas, though not nearlighting...

...Elephants have no sweat glands, ridding their bodies no bigger than "Eggplant," much smaller than "Electricity...

...There will be more blacks ists seem willing to study it...

...Dad and the pages, absorbed, humming to yourself...

...the required number of people...

...Some see it as condemning them to a mi- nority status for the next fifty years and preventing "mainstreaming...

...What's even more pleasing and profound about the World This is the world as a child first knows it, despite the Latin Book, I think, is that it's organized alphabetically...

...Montaigne takes up far less glimpse reading a volume front to back...

...This year, however, a new element was injected into the establishment of dis- tricting boundaries...

...The business manager will work with the publisher and staff on a wide va- riety of business tasks...

...Obviously this second change is meant to treat minorities justly and give them ad- equate representation...

...Its prefer- it, in the juxtapositions the alphabet requires, is a very differ- ence is clearly for the physical...

...You can go elsewhere for literary history, and you can sim- VII of France and later of King Henry II of England...

...Now there are many special interest con- cerns, represented in some cases by for- malized caucuses such as the Sunbelt Caucus, the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus, the Caucus on Women's Issues, even the Arts Caucus, which often take precedence over party affiliation...

...Blacks, too, are split in their view of the process...

...Applications or suggestions should be sent to: Editor, Commonweal, 15 Dutch Street, New York, N.Y...

...Mostly I just wanted to sound cal or personal...

...In recent decades a unify- ing and empowering force known as the New Member Orientation Program has de- veloped...

...Commonweal...

...Ultimately the job will include responsibility for circulation, promotion, fund-raising, development, and general business matters as well as supervis- ing the business staff...

...We can hope that this process broadens a congress-person's outlook beyond the narrow con- cerns of his or her constituency...

...The of excess heat by flapping their ears or spraying water on them- world we're all finally nostalgic for is the world prior to our selves...

...We are looking for someone to pursue the business interests of the mag- azine with vigor and intelligence, someone with promotion and business skills committed to working with a small staff and a limited budget to ensure the financial future of Commonweal...

...The next part of the program is the lead- ership orientation, presented on a partisan basis...

...The new congresspersons are briefed on parliamentary procedures, floor pro- cedures, and the process of assignment to committees...

...There will be fewer congressmen First, fifty-two congressman have retired, always been a certain amount of juggling Commonweal 6 November 1992:9 things about in drawing district lines-- gerrymandering as it is called--to gain some partisan advantage...

...A court decision made it necessary to draw lines giving a district to a concentration of minorities wherev- er they are found...

...Long-time Congress watchers are con- cerned that the redistricting process de- scribed above will only intensify what they see as the Balkanization of the House...

...The Who (one of I had built a little triangular box, a half square, with a window the most popular British rock groups in history) is followed by on the flat open side and two thermometers, one inside and one Wichita (the largest city in Kansas) is followed by Wild Carrot, out, the idea being to capture the sun, make it bounce around Wilson Cloud Chamber, Winch, Wind Surfing, Women's inside the house--the Greenhouse effect harnessed...

...The Democrats and Republicans meet separately to nominate candidates for Speaker, to elect the leaders of their cau- cus or conference, and to select their mem- bers to serve on the various committees of the House...

...The American Elm, spreading out like an umbrella against volvements and needs...

...They say that as 52 percent of the population they are cer- tainly underrepresented and clearly can- not be sorted out geographically...

...Everybody should constitute a district...

...Intrinsically a blue sky...

...The truest world of the World Book is the one you ly as much as Tire or Tin or Texas...

...of shapes and forms and sensations, nothing more important But orderliness is only the first level, and it's finally illuso- than anything else, an array of objects all ends in themselves...

...And they discuss legislative priorities...

...This is the world undifferentiated, prior to spefrom one paragraph to another, appropriate phrases in bold- cialization and use...

...Just the world...

...The ele- ply look into your own head for a record of the chaos and campane is a coarse perennial plant closely related to asters, complexity of ideas...

...Change is im- tricts in order to give representation to in this Congress, more Hispanics, more minent for several reasons...

...but when you read a volume as a book, assume as if I knew something, play that part, and my charts and re- the sequence as a structure, a deeper, more innocent whole- ports were first-class, lots of flat arrows branching out in stages ness emerges...

...Chris'Anderson, a frequent Commonweal contributor, teach-Fact follows fact, object follows object, each entry unashamed es at Oregon State University in Corvallis...

...It is said that in order to make the connections, por- tions of the district are no wider than the highway itself...

...That lic knows little about it--how it came determine the number of people that is the forthcoming change in the Con- about, how it will affect them...

...Thus, Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York, for exam- ple, found that he had to run in a district with a majority of Hispanics who reject- ed him in the primary...

...The population of the closely than a change as this change is, most of the voting pub- country as a whole is divided by 435 to in the presidency...