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The committee : a study of policy, power, politics, and Obama's historic legislative agenda on Capitol Hill / Bryan W. Marshall and Bruce C. Wolpe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Bryan W., author.
- Wolpe, Bruce C., 1951- author, writer of preface.
- Series:
- Legislative politics & policy making
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress--(111th : 2009-2010).
- United States.
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Political planning--United States.
- Political planning.
- United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition
- Other Title:
- Study of policy, power, politics, and Obama's historic legislative agenda on Capitol Hill
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce--one of the most powerful committees in Congress--Bruce C. Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer's look at how committees develop and promote legislation. With its insider's view of the rough-and-tumble politics of cap-and-trade, healthcare reform, tobacco, oversight, and the debt ceiling agreement, The Committee uniquely melds the art of politics and policymaking with the theory and literature of political science. The authors engage with the important questions that political science asks about committee power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the House. In this new edition, the authors revisit the relationship between the executive and Congress in the wake of the sweeping changes wrought by the Trump administration, as well as thoughts about how that relationship will change again as President Biden faces a 117th Congress that is strikingly similar to Obama's 111th. The insider politics and strategies about moving legislation in Congress, from internal and external coalition building to a chairman's role in framing policy narratives, will captivate both novice and die-hard readers of politics."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-272) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472129676
- 0472129678
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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