Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process - Couverture rigide

Oleszek, Walter J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1568024924 ISBN 13 : 9781568024929

Editeur : CQ Press, 2000

Synopsis

A title exploring how the contemporary Congress makes laws and how its rules and procedures shape domestic and foreign policy. Also covered are: the shift from the politics of deficit to the politics of surplus, innovations in Senate floor procedures and new trends in legislative oversight.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The definitive work on how congressional rules, procedures, and traditions affect the course and content of legislation, this seventh edition reflects both thorough updating and further refinement. In the House and the Senate, and from committee room to the floor, the fundamentals of lawmaking are made clear in Walter Oleszek s straight talking, informative book on Congress. With dozens of lively illustrations, charts, and extracts from real documents, Oleszek spotlights both "regular order" and unconventional procedures while explaining the role of congressional leadership, the use of strategic tactics, and complicated parliamentary processes. Readers will appreciate Oleszek s insight on the ever-sophisticated use of procedures such as filling the tree to achieve party and policy objectives in a time of sharper partisanship. Updates include: changes in congressional budgeting, such as the return of fiscal deficits, the clash between discretionary spending and entitlements, and the drive to curb the explosion in earmarks the nuclear option controversy over filibusters the wider use of technology in the lawmaking process

Biographie de l'auteur

Walter J. Oleszek is a senior specialist in the legislative process at the Congressional Research Service. He has served as either a full-time professional staff aide or consultant to every major House and Senate congressional reorganization effort beginning with the passage of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970. In 1993, he served as Policy Director of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. A long-time adjunct faculty member at The American University, Oleszek is a frequent lecturer before various academic, governmental and business groups. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Congress and Its Members, 10th ed. (2006),with Roger H. Davidson, and Congress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican Majority (1997), with C. Lawrence Evans.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CQ Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1568024924
• ISBN 13: 9781568024929
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 390
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible