Surviving Inside Congress
Author : Mark N. Strand
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
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ISBN : 9780963305756
Author : Mark N. Strand
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
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ISBN : 9780963305756
Author : Mark N. Strand
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
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ISBN : 9780963305718
Author : Congressional Institute
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2023-08-08
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ISBN : 9780996652445
The sixth edition of Surviving Inside Congress includes all you need to know to succeed as a congressional staffer or stay informed as a private citizen. Understanding how Congress really works-or doesn't, as the case may be-is the difference between being a valuable contributor to the nation's work and being an outsider who never really knows what's happening.Surviving Inside Congress has been revised and expanded to reflect important developments during the 116th, 117th and 118th Congresses. Updates include:? A new chapter on the relationship between the Legislative and Judicial Branches ? Information on the House's Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress? Explanations on how the parliamentary procedure in both Chambers has changed dramatically, especially during the coronavirus pandemic? And a floor procedures manual and congressional glossary for the 118th Congress.
Author : Rep. Robert Wexler
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429925477
There's a reason The Nation, America's leading progressive magazine, named Robert Wexler the country's "Most Valuable Congressman." It's the same reason right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh refers to him as "disgusting." It's because for the last twelve years Wexler has been Congress's most outspoken liberal -- taking on George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Alberto Gonzales, General David Petraeus, and, when necessary, even his own party. In Fire-Breathing Liberal, Wexler brings readers onto the floor of the House and puts them at the center of some of the last decade's biggest controversies. He passionately describes how he defended Bill Clinton from impeachment and how he stood up against the Bush brothers when the "butterfly" ballots in his Florida district wrongly decided the 2000 presidential election. He also offers an honest and brutal assessment of the Iraq war and explains why he has become a leader in the movement to impeach Vice President Cheney. And, with warmth and wit, Wexler shares some of the funniest stories from the corridors of Congress, including how he became The Colbert Report's most talked-about guest. This is a remarkably candid first-person account of recent political history that shows government as it has rarely been seen -- by a Democrat in the middle of the storms.
Author : Trevor Corning
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815727348
Required reading for anyone who wants to understand how to work within Congress. The House and Senate have unique rules and procedures to determine how legislation moves from a policy idea to law. Evolved over the last 200 years, the rules of both chambers are designed to act as the engine for that process. Each legislative body has its own leadership positions to oversee this legislative process. To the novice, whether a newly elected representative, a lawmaker's staff on her first day at work, or a constituent visiting Washington, the entire process can seem incomprehensible. What is an open rule for a House Appropriations bill and how does it affect consideration? Why are unanimous consent agreements needed in the Senate? The authors of Inside Congress, all congressional veterans, have written the definitive guide to how Congress really works. It is the accessible and necessary resource to understanding and interpreting procedural tools, arcane precedents, and the role of party politics in the making of legislation in Congress.
Author : Robert G. Kaiser
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307744515
A Washington Post Notable Book An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and how it doesn’t— Act of Congress focuses on two of the major players behind the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008: colorful, wisecracking congressman Barney Frank, and careful, insightful senator Christopher Dodd, both of whom met regularly with Robert G. Kaiser during the eighteen months they worked on the bill. In this compelling narrative, Kaiser shows how staffers play a critical role, drafting the legislation and often making the crucial deals. Kaiser’s rare insider access enabled him to illuminate the often-hidden intricacies of legislative enterprise and shows us the workings of Congress in all of its complexity, a clearer picture than any we have had of how Congress works best—or sometimes doesn’t work at all.
Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0593332245
“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times. This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery—and to the hope of what comes next.
Author : Jackie Speier
Publisher : Little a
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781503903609
November, 1978. Speier joined Congressman Leo Ryan's delegation to rescue defectors from cult leader Jim Jones's Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. Ryan was killed on the airstrip tarmac. Jackie was shot five times at point-blank range. While recovering, Jackie had to choose: Would she become a victim or a fighter? She chose to become a vocal proponent for human rights. Here she reveals her story of resilience as a widow, a mother, a congresswoman, and a fighter, to inspire other women to draw strength from adversity in order to do what is right. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Michael S Johnson
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781636983981
Fixing Congress educates and empowers citizens who are unhappy with Congress to renew their hopes for the first branch of government and equips them with the tools to regain control over it.
Author : Mordecai Lee
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0806184477
Government bureaucracy is something Americans have long loved to hate. Yet despite this general antipathy, some federal agencies have been wildly successful in cultivating the people’s favor. Take, for instance, the U.S. Forest Service and its still-popular Smokey Bear campaign. The agency early on gained a foothold in the public’s esteem when President Theodore Roosevelt championed its conservation policies and Forest Service press releases led to favorable coverage and further goodwill. Congress has rarely approved of such bureaucratic independence. In Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, political scientist Mordecai Lee—who has served as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill and as a state senator—explores a century of congressional efforts to prevent government agencies from gaining support for their initiatives by communicating directly with the public. Through detailed case studies, Lee shows how federal agencies have used increasingly sophisticated publicity techniques to muster support for their activities—while Congress has passed laws to counter those PR efforts. The author first traces congressional resistance to Roosevelt’s campaigns to rally popular support for the Panama Canal project, then discusses the Forest Service, the War Department, the Census Bureau, and the Department of Agriculture. Lee’s analysis of more recent legislative bans on agency publicity in the George W. Bush administration reveals that political battles over PR persist to this day. Ultimately, despite Congress’s attempts to muzzle agency public relations, the bureaucracy usually wins. Opponents of agency PR have traditionally condemned it as propaganda, a sign of a mushrooming, self-serving bureaucracy, and a waste of taxpayer dollars. For government agencies, though, communication with the public is crucial to implementing their missions and surviving. In Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, Lee argues these conflicts are in fact healthy for America. They reflect a struggle for autonomy that shows our government’s system of checks and balances to be alive and working well.