Research Catalog

Title

Unorthodox lawmaking : new legislative processes in the U.S. Congress / Barbara Sinclair.

Author

Sinclair, Barbara, 1940-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

xiv, 257 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• United States
• United States > Politics and government > 1993-2001
• Politics and government
• Legislation > United States
• 1993 - 2001

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.

Contents

1. Clean air: an introduction to how the legislative process has changed -- 2. Multiple paths: the legislative process in the House of Representatives : Bill introduction ; Bill referral ; Postcommittee adjustments ; Special rules ; On the floor ; Unorthodox lawmaking in the House -- 3. Routes and obstacles: the legislative process in the Senate : Bill introduction ; Bill referral ; Postcommittee adjustments ; Scheduling legislation for the floor ; The Senate floor ; Unorthodox lawmaking in the Senate -- 4. Getting one bill: reconciling House-Senate differences : Nonconference reconciliation procedures ; Conference committees ; The final step ; Reconciling differences: how much change? -- 5. Omnibus legislation, the budget process, and summits : Omnibus legislation and the budget process ; Congress, the President, and summitry ; What is the regular process? -- 6. Why and how the legislative process changed : From decentralization to individualism in the Senate ; Reform and its legacy in the House ; Budget reform ; A hostile political climate as a force for innovation: the 1980s and early 1990s ; How internal reform and a hostile climate spawned unorthodox lawmaking ; The evolution of unorthodox lawmaking: a summary ; Unorthodox lawmaking in the 104th Congress -- 7. National service legislation: (mildly) unorthodox lawmaking : Why national service? Origins and prospects ; Committee action ; The special rule and House floor action ; Senate floor action ; The final steps ; The legislative process on national service legislation: a little bit unorthodox -- 8. Regulatory overhaul: the pitfalls of unorthodox lawmaking : Referral and committee action in the House ; Postcommittee adjustments in the House ; House floor action ; Senate committee action ; Postcommittee negotiations in the Senate ; Senate floor action ; Regulatory overhaul dies ; The hazards of unorthodox lawmaking -- 9. The omnibus drug bill: a "designer" legislative process : Putting together the House bill ; Designing the rule ; House floor action ; Putting together the Senate bill ; Getting the bill to the Senate floor ; Reconciling House-Senate differences: the initial phase ; Resolving the tough ones: the "Supreme Court" decides ; Unorthodox lawmaking in the House and Senate: lessons from three cases -- 10. The budget process as an instrument for policy change: Clinton's economic program : Budget policy making and politics: the context in 1993 ; Committing to the Clinton plan: crafting and passing the budget resolution ; Delivering on promised policy change: reconciliation ; Unified government, procedural control, and policy success -- 11. The Republican revolution and the budget process : Fulfilling the contract: welfare reform and tax cuts ; Committing to a balanced budget: the budget resolution ; Shooting with real bullets: reconcilation ; Summitry: struggling to reconcile irreconcilable differences ; The budget process and "revolutionary" policy change: possibilities and limits -- 12. The consequences of unorthodox lawmaking : Lawmaking in the contemporary Congress ; Unorthodox lawmaking and legislative outcomes ; Other costs and benefits ; Assessing unorthodox lawmaking.

ISBN

• 1568022778
• 9781568022772
• 156802276X
• 9781568022765

LCCN

96054276

OCLC

• ocm36252521
• SCSB-5816791

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries