Unorthodox lawmaking
Subtitle: new legislative processes in the U.S. Congress
By: Barbara Sinclair, University of California, Los Angeles
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Sage CQ Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781506322834
Subjects: Politics and government; Legislation
Description: "Most major measures wind their way through the contemporary Congress in what Barbara Sinclair has dubbed "unorthodox lawmaking." In this much-anticipated Fifth Edition of Unorthodox Lawmaking, Sinclair explores the full range of special procedures and processes that make up Congress's work, as well as the reasons these unconventional routes evolved. The author introduces students to the intricacies of Congress and provides the tools to assess the relative successes and limitations of the legislative process. This dramatically revised Fifth Edition incorporates a wealth of new cases and examples to illustrate the changes occurring in congressional process. Two entirely new case study chapters highlight Sinclair's fresh analysis and the book is now introduced by a new foreword from noted scholar and teacher, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, reflecting on this book and Barbara Sinclair's significant mark on the study of Congress."--Back cover/publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Clean air : an introduction to how the legislative process has changed; title: Multiple paths : the legislative process in the House of Representatives; title: Routes and obstacles : the legislative process in the Senate; title: Getting one bill : reconciling House-Senate differences; title: Omnibus legislation, the budget process, and summits; title: Why and how the legislative process changed; title: A tale of two stimuli : the Bush-Pelosi-Boehner Stimulus Bill of 2008 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; title: Making nonincremental policy change through hyper-unorthodox procedures : health care reform in 2009-2010; title: High-stakes budget politics: the 2013 government shutdown and the Ryan-Murray deal; title: A cross-party coalition forces policy change: the USA Freedom Act; title: The consequences of unorthodox lawmaking.