Party and procedure in the United States Congress
By: edited by Jacob R. Straus, Congressional Research Service, Matthew Glassman, Congressional Research Service
Edition: Second edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781442258723; 9781442258730
Subjects: United States; United States. Congress; Legislation; Rules and practice
Description: Understanding how Congressional political parties utilize floor procedure to advance a legislative agenda is fundamental to understanding how Congress operates. This book offers students and researchers an in-depth understanding of the procedural tools available to congressional leaders and committee chairs and how those tools are implemented in the House of Representatives, the Senate, and during negotiations between the chambers. While other volumes provide the party or the procedural perspective, this book combines these two features to create a robust analysis of the role that party can play in making procedural decisions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Navigating Congress in the age of partisanship  -- Jacob R. Straus and Matthew E. Glassman; title: Drafting the law : players, power, and processes  -- Scott Levy; title: Keeping the team together : explaining party discipline and dissent in the U.S. Congress  -- Matthew Green and Briana Bee; title: The motion to recommit in the U.S. House  -- Jennifer Hayes Clark; title: Evolution of the reconciliation process, 1980-2015  -- James V. Saturno; title: Post-committee adjustment in the contemporary House : the use of Rules Committee prints  -- Mark J. Oleszek; title: Longitudinal analysis of one-minute speeches in the House of Representatives  -- Colleen J. Shogan and Matthew E. Glassman; title: A good leader never blames his tools : the evolving majority-party toolkit in the U.S. Senate  -- Aaron S. King, Frank J. Orlando, and David W. Rohde; title: The electoral politics of procedural votes in the U.S. Senate  -- Joel Sievert; title: Partisanship, filibustering, and reform in the Senate  -- Gregory Koger; title: Irregular order : examining the changing congressional amending process  -- Michael S. Lynch, Anthony J. Madonna, and Rachel Surminsky; title: From base closings to the budget : exceptions to the filibuster in the U.S. Senate  -- Molly E. Reynolds; title: Intraparty caucus formation in the U.S. Congress  -- James Wallner; title: Gender and party politics in a polarized era  -- Michele L. Swers; title: The government shutdown of 2013 : a perspective -- Walter J. Oleszek.