The Committee - A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama's Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce-one of the most powerful committees in Congress-Bruce C. Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer's look at how committees develop and promote legislation. With its insider's view of the rough-and-tumble politics of cap-and-trade, healthcare reform, tobacco, oversight, and the debt ceiling agreement, The Committee uniquely melds the art of politics and policymaking with the theory and literature of political science. The authors engage with the important questions that political science asks about committee power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the House. In this new edition, the authors revisit the relationship between the executive and Congress in the wake of the sweeping changes wrought by the Trump administration, as well as thoughts about how that relationship will change again as President Biden faces a 117th Congress that is strikingly similar to Obama's 111th. The insider politics and strategies about moving legislation in Congress, from internal and external coalition building to a chairman's role in framing policy narratives, will captivate both novice and die-hard readers of politics.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Legislative Politics And Policy Making
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	Bryan William Marshall • Bruce C. Wolpe
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-03882-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Constitution, government & the state
LSN:	0-472-03882-6
Barcode:	9780472038824

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