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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A History of the Committee on House Administration, 1947-2012
Author: A history of the Committee on House Administration, 1947-2012
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Congress Overwhelmed
Author: Timothy M. LaPiraPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022670260X
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.
Official Congressional Directory
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Evolving Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Congressional Research ServicePublisher:
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Evolving Congress
Author: Congressional Research Congressional Research Service Library of CongressPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512234244
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
For 100 years, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has been charged with providing nonpartisan and authoritative research and analysis to inform the legislative debate in Congress. This has involved a wide range of services, such as written reports on issues and the legislative process, consultations with Members and their staff, seminars on policy and procedural matters, and congressional testimony. The Government and Finance Division at CRS took a step back from its intensive day-to-day service to Congress to analyze important trends in the evolution of the institution-its organization and policymaking process-over the last many decades. Changes in the political landscape, technology, and representational norms have required Congress to evolve as the Nation's most democratic national institution of governance. The essays in this print demonstrate that Congress has been a flexible institution that has changed markedly in recent years in response to the social and political environment.
Fighting for Common Ground
Author: Olympia SnowePublisher: Weinstein Books
ISBN: 1602862176
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The first woman in American history to serve in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of Congress describes how to dissolve the polarization afflicting the current American government and unite both parties to work for the common good.
Author: United States
Author: West Virginia