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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marshall, Bryan W. (Author), Wolpe, Bruce C., 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress. > House. > Committee on Energy and Commerce.
United States. > Congress.
United States. > Congress > (111th : > 2009-2010)
Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Public Policy
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 2009-2017.
United States
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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