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The Polarized Congress : The Post-Traditional Procedure of Its Current Struggles.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : University Press of America, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (210 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780761867487
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Polarized CongressDDC classification:
  • 328.7309051
LOC classification:
  • JK275 -- .T54 2017eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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