Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive DepartmentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive DepartmentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Author: David H. RosenbloomPublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
2001 Louis Brownlow Award from the National Academy of Public Administration Explains the reasons behind Congress's expanded role in the federal government, its underlying coherence, and its continuing significance for those who study and practice public administration Before 1946 the congressional role in public administration had been limited to authorization, funding, and review of federal administrative operations, which had grown rapidly as a result of the New Deal and the Second World War. But in passing the Administrative Procedure Act and the Legislative Reorganization Act that pivotal year, Congress self-consciously created for itself a comprehensive role in public administration. Reluctant to delegate legislative authority to federal agencies, Congress decided to treat the agencies as extensions of itself and established a framework for comprehensive regulation of the agencies' procedures. Additionally, Congress reorganized itself so it could provide continuous supervision of federal agencies. Rosenbloom shows how these 1946 changes in the congressional role in public administration laid the groundwork for future major legislative acts, including the Freedom of Information Act (1966), Privacy Act (1974), Government in the Sunshine Act (1976), Paperwork Reduction Acts (1980, 1995), Chief Financial Officers Act (1990), and Small Business Regulatory Fairness Enforcement Act (1996). Each of these acts, and many others, has contributed to the legislative-centered public administration that Congress has formed over the past 50 years. This first book-length study of the subject provides a comprehensive explanation of the institutional interests, values, and logic behind the contemporary role of Congress in federal administration and attempts to move the public administration field beyond condemning legislative "micromanagement" to understanding why Congress values it.
A Compilation of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, Public Law 601, 79th Cong
Author: United StatesLegislative Reorganization Act of 1946
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government property
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committe on Expenditures in the Executive DepartmentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Congress Overwhelmed
Author: Timothy M. LaPiraPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022670257X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn’t have the internal capacity to do what our constitutional system requires of it. Leading scholars chronicle the institutional decline of Congress and the decades-long neglect of its own internal investments in the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform as a first-rate legislature. Today’s legislators and congressional committees have fewer—and less expert and experienced—staff than the executive branch or K Street. This leaves them at the mercy of lobbyists and the administrative bureaucracy. The essays in Congress Overwhelmed assess Congress’s declining capacity and explore ways to upgrade it. Some provide broad historical scope. Others evaluate the current decay and investigate how Congress manages despite the obstacles. Collectively, they undertake the most comprehensive, sophisticated appraisal of congressional capacity to date, and they offer a new analytical frame for thinking about—and improving—our underperforming first branch of government.
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive DepartmentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Why Congressional Reforms Fail
Author: E. Scott AdlerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226007557
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
For decades, advocates of congressional reforms have repeatedly attempted to clean up the House committee system, which has been called inefficient, outmoded, unaccountable, and even corrupt. Yet these efforts result in little if any change, as members of Congress who are generally satisfied with existing institutions repeatedly obstruct what could fairly be called innocuous reforms. What lies behind the House's resistance to change? Challenging recent explanations of this phenomenon, Scott Adler contends that legislators resist rearranging committee powers and jurisdictions for the same reason they cling to the current House structure—the ambition for reelection. The system's structure works to the members' advantage, helping them obtain funding (and favor) in their districts. Using extensive evidence from three major reform periods—the 1940s, 1970s, and 1990s—Adler shows that the reelection motive is still the most important underlying factor in determining the outcome of committee reforms, and he explains why committee reform in the House has never succeeded and probably never will.
Amendments Made to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 by S. 355
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on the Organization of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Committees in Congress
Author: Christopher J. DeeringPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1483304507
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive examination of the origins, development, and status of committees and committee systems in both the House and Senate, this edition carries on the book′s tradition of comprehensive coverage, empirical richness, and theoretical relevance in its discussion of these essential and distinguishing features of our national legislature. While the second edition focused on the "post-reform" committee systems, addressed the shifts in the internal distribution of power, and hinted at the forces that had already begun to undermine the power of committees, this edition updates that analysis and looks at the reforms that evolvied under the Republicans. It offers complete coverage of the rules and structural changes to the House and Senate committee systems. It extends its discussion of committee power and influence in the context of the "Contract with America," Republican reforms, and the inter-party warfare on Capitol Hill.