POPVOX Foundation hosts casework history webinar with Senate Historical Office’s Associate Historian

Direct constituent service has been part of Congressional responsibility since the nation’s founding, but casework has looked very different through the last two hundred years. Did you know that in the 1970s, some Senators employed shared casework staff? Or that between 1905 and 1907, private bills on behalf of constituents represented 89% of laws passed by Congress? Or that casework has survived multiple attempts to remove it from Congressional duties entirely?

On January 17, POPVOX Foundation kicked off the 2024 Casework Navigator webinar series with special guest Daniel Holt, Associate Historian from the Senate Historical Office.

This event put modern casework in context, exploring how we got here, and what we can learn from previous iterations of casework to chart the future of democratic representation in America.

For more webinars in our Casework Navigator series, visit popvox.org/casework.