Surviving Inside Congress

Want to work for Congress or just understand it better? Learn the ins-and-outs of how Congress really works.

The fifth edition of Surviving Inside Congress includes all you need to know to succeed as a congressional staffer or stay informed as a private citizen. Understanding how Congress really works or doesn t, as the case may be is the difference between being a valuable contributor to the nation s work and being an outsider who never really knows what is going on.

Surviving Inside Congress has been revised and expanded to reflect important developments during the 114th and 115th Congresses. Updates include:
A new chapter on the President s role in the legislative process
New research on social media best practices
How and why Congress is dysfunctional and how it can be reformed
And a floor procedures manual and congressional glossary for the 115th Congress.