Hitching a ride
Subtitle: omnibus legislating in the U.S. Congress
By: Glen S. Krutz.
Series: Parliaments and legislatures series
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Legislation -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Focusing attention on omnibus legislation; title: The nature of congressional change: literature and theory; title: The logic of omnibus legislation: an integrated theoretical framework; title: Studying omnibus lawmaking systematically; title: Hitching a ride on the omnibus; title: Explaining the move to omnibus legislating; title: The birth of omnibus legislating: why the 81st Congress bundled the budget; title: Getting around gridlock I: making health care policy through omnibus bills; title: Getting around gridlock II: the effect of omnibus utilization on legislative productivity; title: The omnibus change and presidential-congressional relations; title: Evaluating omnibus legislating.