The polarized Congress : the post-traditional procedure of its current struggles / Charles Tiefer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiefer, Charles, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress--History--21st century.

United States.

United States. Congress--Leadership.

United States--Politics and government--2009-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, Incorporated, [2016]

Summary:

This book challenges the easy assumption that Congressional procedure is descending into nothing more than chaotic brutishness or eternal stalemate. Instead, it explains the transformation of the traditional model about ""how a bill becomes a law"" before 2000, into the new current model in which Congress acts very differently.

Contents:

The Polarized Congress ; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Bicameral Agreement: Conferences and Ping-Ponging; Chapter 3 Running the Polarized House: Polarization, the Hastert Rule, and the Fettered Floor ; Chapter 4 Trying to Work with the Polarized Senate; Chapter 5 Cloture in the Often-Blocked Senate; Chapter 6 The Budget Process Serving Polarized Chambers; Chapter 7 Appropriations; Chapter 8 Change; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7618-6748-1

OCLC:

946606159