Download or read book Report of the Special Outside Counsel in the Matter of Speaker James C Wright Jr written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book REPORT OF THE SPECIAL OUTSIDE COUNSEL IN THE MATTER OF SPEAKER JAMES C WRIGHT JR 101 CONGRESS ETHICS written by United States. CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT. and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Ethics in Congress written by Dennis F. Thompson and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More members of Congress have been investigated and sanctioned for ethical misconduct in the past decade and a half than in the entire previous history of the institution. But individual members are probably less corrupt than they once were. Stricter ethics codes and closer scrutiny by the press and public have imposed standards no previous representatives have had to face. Dennis Thompson shows how the institution itself is posing new ethical challenges, how the complexity of the environment in which members work creates new occasions for corruption and invites more calls for accountability. Instead of the individual corruption that has long been the center of attention, Thompson focuses on institutional corruption which refers to conduct that under certain conditions is an acceptable part of the job of a representative. Members are required to solicit campaign contributions, and they are expected to help constituents with their problems with government, but some ways of doing these jobs give rise to institutional corruption. The author moves the discussion beyond bribery, extortion, and simple personal gain to delve into implicit understandings, ambiguous favors, and political advantage. Thompson examines many major ethics cases of recent years. Among them: the case of David Durenberger, accused of supplementing his income through book promotions; the case of the Keating Five, accused of using undue influence with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board on behalf of Lincoln Savings and Loan owner Charles Keating; and the case of House Speaker James Wright, accused of several offenses. Thompson shows why neither the electoral process nor the judicial process is sufficient and argues for stronger ethics committees and the creation of a new quasi-independent body to take over some of the enforcement process. He offers more than a dozen recommendations for changes in the procedures and practices of ethics in Congress. The book features a listi

Download or read book In the Matter of Representative Jay Kim written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book In the Matter of Representative Newt Gingrich written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Ethics and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Legislative Process written by Abner J. Mikva and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Legislative Process, Fourth Edition, three outstanding authors explore American legislative institutions and the processes by which they consider and enact legislation. Using a rich variety of primary source materials, and placing consistent emphasis on the processes and practice of law, Mikva, Lane and Gerhardt consider contemporary legislative topics in the context of historical events. Key Features: Maintains focus on legislative process Extraordinary authorship, including new co-author Gerhardt has advised congressional leaders and White House officials on numerous constitutional issues. New, unique, and updated material on important subjects in the legislative process, including, but not limited to: legislators conceptions of their duties Congress relative institutional competency to interpret the Constitution the President s role in law-making voting rights legislative ethics statutory construction impeachment the Senate confirmation process; and congressional rulemaking

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Download or read book The American Speakership written by Ronald M. Peters and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A splendid study." -- John Brademas, Review of Politics "A major contribution to what we know about congressional leadership... Peters has written the definitive treatment of the speakership for the first 200-year history of the House of Representatives." -- Journal of Politics One of only four federal offices named in the Constitution, the speakership of the U.S. House of Representatives is second only to the presidency in political power and influence. In this revised and updated edition of The American Speakership, Ronald M. Peters, Jr., offers the first comprehensive political and historical account of the speakership to appear since the turn of the century. Arguing that the workings of Congress can best be understood from a broader historical perspective, Peters traces the evolution of the office from its early form as a parliamentary office through periods during which it functioned as a feudal institution to its present form as a democratic speakership. Today the office of the Speaker is more powerful than at any time since the turn of the century, and Peters covers the visible and controversial roles played by Tip O'Neill and Jim Wright, and, more recently, by Tom Foley and Newt Gingrich. "A major book on an important subject." -- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "A sophisticated and insightful history of the speakership." -- Political Science Quarterly

Download or read book The Daisy Chain written by James E. O'Shea and published by Beyond Words/Atria Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did this country allow $250 billion to be stolen, squandered and finally sucked down the drain in a scandal that Newsweek has called "the biggest financial mess in U.S. history"? The definitive -- and uproariously entertaining -- answer lies in this prize-winning account of how the cleanest little savings & loan in Texas became the government's black hole -- once Big Bad Don Dixon rode into town.

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Download or read book Honor in the House written by Jeffrey R. Biggs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1989 he became the first Westerner to serve as Speaker of the House, the most powerful position in Congress. He retained that position until defeated in the Republican landslide election of 1994. President Bill Clinton then appointed him Ambassador to Japan."--BOOK JACKET.

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