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• The History of Legislative Methods in the Period Before 1825 (New Haven: Yale University Press; et al., 1917), by Ralph Volney Harlow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Handbook for Chairmen of Subcommittees on Subsidiary Legislation/Other Instruments, by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML at legco.gov.hk)

• Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Report of the Office of the Child Advocate (Hartford, CT: State of Connecticut, 2014), by Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (PDF at ct.gov)

• Chicago Police Investigations: Three Reports (aka Police in America, a 1971 compilation of reports from 1898-1912) (PDF files at Northwestern)

• Providing Special Investigative Authorities for the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Report Together with Minority and Dissenting Views (to Accompany H. Res. 167) (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election (2 redacted volumes in 1; 2019), by Robert S. Mueller, ed. by William Pelham Barr (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew (hearing before the committee, August 1, 2007; Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Covert Operation: Report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session (4 volumes, first labeled "draft report", others labeled exhibit appendixes; Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c): Communication From Kenneth W. Starr, Independent Counsel, Transmitting a Referral to the United States House of Representatives Filed in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, section 595(c) (the Starr Report on Clinton and Lewinsky, with appendices), by Kenneth Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (Washington: GPO, 2022), by United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (PDF and text at govinfo.gov)

• Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Robert P. Newman (HTML at UC Press)

• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (the McCarthy hearing transcripts, 1953-1954 (5 volumes plus an index); made public in 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ed. by Donald A. Ritchie, Beth Bolling, and Diane B. Boyle, contrib. by Joseph McCarthy
  • Volume 1: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 2: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 3: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 4: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 5: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Index volume: PDF and HTML at govinfo.gov
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Annual Report, by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (partial serial archives)

• Silas Timberman (New York: Blue Heron Press, 1954), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (with supporting materials; 2015), by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (PDF files at trc.ca)

• Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• The Legislative Committee Game: A Comparative Analysis of Fifty States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Wayne L. Francis (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Die Geistesgeschichtliche Lage des Heutigen Parlamentarismus (second edition, in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1926), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Of the Antiquity, Power and Decay of Parliaments: Being a General View of Government, and Civil Policy, in Europe, With Other Historical and Political Observations Relating Thereunto (London: J. Roberts, 1714), by Thomas Rymer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coalition Government, Subnational Style: Multiparty Politics in Europe's Regional Parliaments (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by William M. Downs (PDF at Ohio State)

• Creating Parliamentary Government: the Transition to Democracy in Bulgaria (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Albert P. Melone (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Are Legislatures Parliaments? A Study and Review (Montreal: J. Lovell; et al., 1879), by Fennings Taylor (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D. at the Opening of The Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-First Congress, 1947-1949 (Washington: GPO, 1949), by Peter Marshall, contrib. by United States Senate (page images at HathiTrust)

• House Rules (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)
• Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)

• Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999), ed. by Shaun Bowler, David M. Farrell, and Richard S. Katz (PDF at Ohio State)

• Coalition Government, Subnational Style: Multiparty Politics in Europe's Regional Parliaments (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by William M. Downs (PDF at Ohio State)

• Coalition Government, Subnational Style: Multiparty Politics in Europe's Regional Parliaments (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by William M. Downs (PDF at Ohio State)

• Manual of Parliamentary Procedures in the Government of India (current edition, published in or after 2018), by India Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (PDF in India)

• Standing Orders and Rules of the National Assembly, by Mauritius National Assembly (JavaScript-dependent HTML in Mauritius)

• Standing Orders and Rules of the National Assembly, by Mauritius National Assembly (JavaScript-dependent HTML in Mauritius)

• The New York State Legislative Process: An Evaluation and Blueprint for Reform (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Jeremy M. Creelan and Laura M. Moulton (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Standing Orders of the National Assembly of Tanzania (in Swahili; 2007, 2013, and 2016 editions), by Tanzania National Assembly (partial serial archives)

• Standing Orders of the National Assembly of Tanzania (in Swahili; 2007, 2013, and 2016 editions), by Tanzania National Assembly (partial serial archives)

• Rules of Procedure of the Parliament of Uganda (2006 and 2012), by Uganda (PDF files at Uganda Parliament)

• The Rise and Development of the Bicameral System in America (Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 13, #5; 1895), by Thomas Francis Moran
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Check List of Legislative Journals Issued Since 1937 by the States of the United States of America (Chicago: American Library Association, 1955), by William R. Pullen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of Legislative Methods in the Period Before 1825 (New Haven: Yale University Press; et al., 1917), by Ralph Volney Harlow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Devaluation of the Urban and Suburban Vote: A Statistical Investigation of Long-Term Trends in State Legislative Representation (2 volumes in 1; Charlottesville, VA: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Virginia, 1961-1962), by Paul T. David and Ralph Eisenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Contempt of Congress: The Trial of Earl Browder (Yonkers, NY: Earl Browder, 1951), contrib. by Earl Browder, Louis B. Boudin, and United States District Court (District of Columbia) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives, Including References to Provisions of the Constitution and Laws, and to Decisions of the Courts (1974), by Lewis Deschler (PDF and text at house.gov)
• Hughes' American Parliamentary Guide, Prepared for Ohio General Assembly: The Process of Lawmaking (Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1922), by Edward Wakefield Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856), by Luther Stearns Cushing (page images at MOA)
• House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (current and past editions, 1996-present), contrib. by Wm. Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan, and Thomas J. Wickham (PDF and text files with commentary at govinfo.gov)
• A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (Washington: Davis and Force, 1820), by Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warrington's Manual: A Manual for the Information of Officers and Members of Legislatures, Conventions, Societies, Corporations, Orders, Etc., by William Stevens Robinson (page images at MOA)

• Pocket Manual of Rules of Order For Deliberative Assemblies (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1876), by Henry M. Robert (Gutenberg text)
• Reed's Parliamentary Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, With Suggestions for Special Rules, by Thomas B. Reed (HTML at wa.gov)
• Robert's Rules of Order Revised (1915 edition), by Henry M. Robert (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Your Farm Bureau (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Alice Sturgis, contrib. by Richard Armour, illust. by Leo Hershfield and Alan Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)

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