Download or read book Major Legislation of the Congress 96th Congress written by Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hitching a Ride written by Glen S. Krutz and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omnibus legislating is the controversial practice of combining disparate measures in one massive bill. Omnibus packages are "must-pass" bills because they have a nucleus that enjoys widespread support but they also contain a variety of often unrelated measures that are simply "hitching a ride". Why are omnibus bills employed? Why the increase in their use? Why do leaders attach certain bills to omnibus packages and not others? Glen Krutz addresses these and other questions in this original and insightful study of an important change in the legislative process. Many view omnibus packages as political vehicles and therefore attribute their rise to politics, but Krutz finds that, whatever their political value, omnibus packages are institutionally efficient. Omnibus legislating improves congressional capability by providing a tool for circumventing the gridlock of committee turf wars and presidential veto threats. In addition to furnishing a fascinating look at law-making, Hitching a Ride: Omnibus Legislating in the U.S. Congress provides a challenge to recent studies of congressional change that focus on political factors. Political and institutional factors together, Krutz argues, explain congressional evolution.

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Download or read book Major Acts of Congress A E written by Brian K. Landsberg and published by MacMillan Reference Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated encyclopedia of congressional acts from the earliest days of the American republic up through recent years.

Download or read book The Legislative Veto written by Barbara Craig and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1983-09-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig combines a historical perspective on the legislative veto with analyses of original case studies involving policy issues of the 1980s and the rules promulgated by the Housing and Urban Department, the Department of Education, the Department of Transportation and the Federal Regulatory Commission. She points to discrepancies between the legislative veto's intended effects and its actual results and argues that instead of promoting democratic control over the actions of bureaucrats, legislative veto politics more often devolved to the politics of special interest protection, influenced by unelected congressional staff. It also allowed Congress to sidestep conflicts by issuing vague mandates that left agencies without necessary congressional support to implement them. Considers the impact of the Immigration and Naturalization Service V. Chadha case and alternatives to legislative veto for control of regulation. ISBN 0-86531-998-7 (pbk.) : $22.00.

Download or read book Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress written by Craig Volden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

Download or read book Enactment of a Law written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The U S Congress A Very Short Introduction written by Donald A. Ritchie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. No mere civics lesson, this eye-opening book provides an insider's perspective on Congress, matched with a professional historian's analytical insight. After a swift survey of the creation of Congress by the constitutional convention, he begins to unscrew the nuts and pull out the bolts. What is it like to campaign for Congress? To attract large donors? To enter either house with no seniority? He answers these questions and more, explaining committee assignments and committee work, the role of staffers and lobbyists, floor proceedings, parliamentary rules, and coalition building. Ritchie explores the great effort put into constituent service-as representatives and senators respond to requests from groups and individuals-as well as media relations and news coverage. He also explores how the grand concepts we all know from civics class--checks and balances, advise and consent, congressional oversight--work in practice in an age of strong presidents and a muscular Senate minority.