Major Legislation of the Congress, 96th Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 109
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 109
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 1084
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Glen S. Krutz
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780814208700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: William J. Keefe
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 1410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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)
Author: Barbara Craig
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 100030292X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On June 23, 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court declared a legislative veto unconstitutional in the Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha case, a ruling that seems to invalidate the legislative vetoes in more than two hundred laws. Two weeks later the court reaffirmed the principles of Chadha to invalidate the legislative veto in other acts. These epic cases, which are already being called the most important separation-of-powers rulings since the White House tapes cases, have generated debate over the implications of the loss of the legislative veto and the wisdom of the court's actions. In this book the author argues that the legislative veto fell far short of its promise in actual operation over the regulatory process. Instead of promoting democratic congressional control over the actions of bureaucrats, legislative veto politics more often devolved to the politics of special interest protection, heavily influenced by unelected congressional staff. Moreover, the legislative veto. allowed Congress to sidestep conflicts by issuing vague mandates that left agencies without the necessary congressional support to implement them. Dr. Craig combines a historical perspective on the legislative veto with analyses of original case studies involving some of the most important policy issues of the 1980s--housing, education, energy, and consumer protection. Assessing all the cases available for research, she points to discrepancies between the legislative veto's intended effects and its actual results. In a final chapter she considers the impact of the Chadha case and discusses possible alternatives to the legislative veto for congressional control of regulation.
Author: Brian K. Landsberg
Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated encyclopedia of congressional acts from the earliest days of the American republic up through recent years.
Author: Craig Volden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-27
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0521761522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 224
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