Title: Unorthodox lawmaking : new legislative processes in the U.S. Congress /
Authors: Sinclair, Barbara.
Publisher: CQ Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Legislation United States.; United States Politics and government
Abstract: Previous editions published : 3rd (2007), 2nd (2005), and 1st (1997).
Contents: Clean air : an introduction to how the legislative process has changed -- Multiple paths : the legislative process in the House of Representatives -- Routes and obstacles : the legislative process in the Senate -- Getting one bill : reconciling House-Senate differences -- Omnibus legislation, the budget process, and summits -- Why and how the legislative process changed -- A tale of two stimuli : the Bush-Pelosi-Boehner Stimulus Bill of 2008 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- Making nonincremental policy change through hyper-unorthodox procedures : health care reform in 2009-2010 -- The Republican tax-cutting agenda and the budget process : the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 -- The consequences of unorthodox lawmaking.