Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Act of Congress
Author: Robert G. KaiserPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307744515
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A Washington Post Notable Book An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and how it doesn’t— Act of Congress focuses on two of the major players behind the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008: colorful, wisecracking congressman Barney Frank, and careful, insightful senator Christopher Dodd, both of whom met regularly with Robert G. Kaiser during the eighteen months they worked on the bill. In this compelling narrative, Kaiser shows how staffers play a critical role, drafting the legislation and often making the crucial deals. Kaiser’s rare insider access enabled him to illuminate the often-hidden intricacies of legislative enterprise and shows us the workings of Congress in all of its complexity, a clearer picture than any we have had of how Congress works best—or sometimes doesn’t work at all.
How Our Laws are Made
Author: John V. SullivanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Recommendations to the Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Pepper CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Guidelines Manual
Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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President's Health Recommendations and Related Measures
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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The Bill Status System for the United States House of Representatives
Author: United States. Congress. House. House Information SystemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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How Congress Works and Why You Should Care
Author: Lee H. HamiltonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253110955
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
How Congress Works and Why You Should Care is a concise introduction to the functions and vital role of the U.S. Congress by eminent former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton. Drawing on 34 years as a U.S. Representative, Hamilton explains how Congress reflects the diversity of the American people, serves as a forum for finding consensus, and provides balance within the federal government. Addressing widespread public misperceptions, he outlines areas where Congress can work better and ways for citizens to become more engaged in public affairs through their representatives in Washington. How Congress Works and Why You Should Care is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the inner workings of Congress, and how all citizens can participate in its unique mission.
Power Without Responsibility
Author: David SchoenbrodPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300159595
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This book argues that Congress's process for making law is as corrosive to the nation as unchecked deficit spending. David Schoenbrod shows that Congress and the president, instead of making the laws that govern us, generally give bureaucrats the power to make laws through agency regulations. Our elected "lawmakers" then take credit for proclaiming popular but inconsistent statutory goals and later blame the inevitable burdens and disappointments on the unelected bureaucrats. The 1970 Clean Air Act, for example, gave the Environmental Protection Agency the impossible task of making law that would satisfy both industry and environmentalists. Delegation allows Congress and the president to wield power by pressuring agency lawmakers in private, but shed responsibility by avoiding the need to personally support or oppose the laws, as they must in enacting laws themselves. Schoenbrod draws on his experience as an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and on studies of how delegation actually works to show that this practice produces a regulatory system so cumbersome that it cannot provide the protection that people need, so large that it needlessly stifles the economy, and so complex that it keeps the voters from knowing whom to hold accountable for the consequences. Contending that delegation is unnecessary and unconstitutional, Schoenbrod has written the first book that shows how, as a practical matter, delegation can be stopped.
Results from Recommendations Made During the 86th Congress in Reports of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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