The committee : a study of policy, power, politics, and Obama's historic legislative agenda on Capitol Hill /

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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 i...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Marshall, Bryan W. (Auteur), Wolpe, Bruce C., 1951- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Collection:Legislative politics & policy making.
Sujets:
United States. > Congress > (111th : > 2009-2010)
United States. > Congress. > House. > Committee on Energy and Commerce.
United States. > Congress
United States. > Congress. > House. > Committee on Energy and Commerce
2009-2017
Public Policy
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
United States
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 2009-2017.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Foreword : about the authors : two beginnings, one old political hand and one new
  • Preface : outline of the committee
  • Hope and change meets the Hill
  • Cap-and-trade bill : American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
  • Confronting Waterloo? : the historic moment for health care reform
  • A big turn in tobacco road
  • From presidential "shakedown" to congressional apology : the politics of committee oversight of BP's Deepwater Horizon crisis
  • When ideological fidelity trumps the common good : the politics that ended the grand bargain
  • Beyond the historic 111th Congress
  • Appendix: Committee on Energy and Commerce major accomplishments of the 111th Congress.

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