Contents -- Preface -- Richard Fenno's Conventional Wisdom / William T. Bianco -- Explaining Institutional Change: Soaking, Poking, and Modeling in the U.S. Congress / John H. Aldrich and Kenneth A. Shepsle -- Building Reputations and Shaping Careers: The Strategies of Individual Agendas in the U.S. Senate / Wendy J. Schiller -- Majority Party Leadership, Strategic Choice, and Committee Power: Appropriations in the House, 1995−98 / Bryan W. Marshall, Brandon C. Prins, and David W. Rohde -- What We Don't Know about Congressional Party Leadership / Richard Forgette -- Preferences and Governance in the U.S. House of Representatives: The Great Republican Experiment / Christine DeGregorio -- Republican House Majority Party Leadership in the 104th and 105th Congresses: Innovation and Continuity / Barbara Sinclair -- Can Advisory Committees Facilitate Congressional Oversight of the Bureaucracy? / Steven J. Balla and John R. Wright -- Representation, Careerism, and Term Limits: A Simulation / Linda L. Fowler and Brian Frederking -- Understanding Presentation of Self / William T. Bianco -- Member Goals and Party Switching in the U.S. Congress / David Castle and Patrick J. Fett -- The Distribution of Pork Barrel Projects and Vote Buying in Congress / Diana Evans -- Congress, the President, and the Unrealized Bargaining Power of the Line-Item Veto: A Brief Note on a Short-Lived Law / Patrick J. Fett, Jeffrey S. Hill, and Richard Delaney -- Contributors -- Index.