Unorthodox lawmaking
Subtitle: new legislative processes in the U.S. Congress
By: Barbara Sinclair
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781608712366
Subjects: Politics and government; Legislation
Description: Previous editions published : 3rd (2007), 2nd (2005), and 1st (1997).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) 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: The Republican tax-cutting agenda and the budget process : the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003; title: The consequences of unorthodox lawmaking.