Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Progressivism and the New American State -- A "New Political Order" -- Theories of the State -- Congress and Progressive Reform -- 2 Congress and the Nation -- Men and Measures -- In the House of the "Czar" -- The House Democrats -- "The Millionaires' Club" -- Party Organization in the Senate -- The Legislative Process -- Congress and the Electorate -- The Man in the White House -- 3 The Troubled Subject of Railroad Regulation in the Progressive Era -- Demands for Regulation -- The Hepburn Bill -- The Senate and Judicial Review -- The Search for Compromise -- Senate Voting on the Hepburn Bill -- The Limitations of the Hepburn Act -- Mr. Taft's Railroad Bill -- Congress and the Mann-Elkins Bill -- Conclusion -- 4 Congress and the "Labor Question" -- Prologue -- The "Bill of Grievances" -- The AFL and the Campaign of 1906 -- "Government By Injunction" -- "Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade" -- Conclusion -- 5 The Ideal of a "Model City": Congress and the District of Columbia -- Toward a Federal Social Policy -- A "Model City" -- The Alleys of Washington -- The Right to Play -- Child Labor in the District -- Education and Welfare -- Government and Finance -- Congress and the District -- 6 The Senate and Progressive Reform -- Republican Voting in the Senate -- Principally Concerning Railroads -- Pure Food and Drugs -- The Conservation of Children and Trees -- Conservatives and Progressives -- The Payne-Aldrich Tariff -- Patterns of Insurgency -- The Insurgent Profile -- 7 Patterns of Republican Insurgency in the House of Representatives -- Cannon, Roosevelt, and Reform -- "Subsidy Is Odious" -- The Despotism of the Rules -- Rules Reform -- Rules, Revision, Regulation -- Insurgents and Progressives -- Conclusion.

8 Progressivism, Democratic Style -- Strategies -- What Divided Democrats from Republicans? -- "Democratic Doctrine" -- The Limits of Democratic Progressivism -- A Jeffersonian Democracy -- Conservative and Progressive Democrats -- 9 Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State -- Progressivism in Congress -- Progressivism and the New American State -- Beyond the "State of Courts and Parties" -- Congress and Political Change -- Appendix The Analysis of Roll Calls -- Index.