Congressional Behavior 🧐

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how congressional behavior is influenced by election processes, partisanship, and divided government

⏰ What We Did

• Reviewed notes on the use of compromise in Congress, how Congress interacts with "lame duck" presidents, and the theories of congressional behavior
• Identified examples of theories of congressional behavior by reading a first-hand account by former Congressman Lee Hamilton

⚙️ Resources

• How Members Vote (Rep. Lee Hamilton, 2004)