Research Catalog

Title

A Second report of the Renewing Congress project / directors, Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein ; jointly sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Brookings Institution, ©1993.

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Additional Authors

• Mann, Thomas E.
• Ornstein, Norman J.
• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
• Brookings Institution.

Description

87 unnumbered pages; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Report- Renewing Congress Project ; 2nd, 1993

Uniform Title

Report- Renewing Congress Project ; 2nd, 1993.

Alternative Title

Renewing Congress : a second report

Subject

• United States. Congress
• United States. Congress > Committees
• Committees
• Het Congres
• Politieke vernieuwing

Note

• Cover title: Renewing Congress: a second report.
• Spine title: Renewing Congress.

Contents

Ethics and the Public Reputation of Congress. Public Understanding of Congress. Ethics Process. Applying Federal Laws to Congress. Campaign Finance -- The Committee System. Purposes. Committee Sizes and Assignments. Committee Numbers. Jurisdictional Changes. Coordinating Mechanisms. Committee Processes and Staff -- The Budget Process. Deficit Reduction. Learning from Gramm-Rudman/ Building on BEA. Increasing Presidential Power. The Budget Resolution and the Budget Committees. The Effects of Budgeting on Congress. Authorizers and Budgeting. Simplifying the Process -- Floor Deliberation and Scheduling. Senate. House. Debate -- Bicameral Relations -- Relations Between the Parties -- Staff. Personal Staff. Committee Staff. Administrative Staff. Support Agencies -- Congress and the Executive -- Congress and the Courts.

ISBN

• 0815754590
• 9780815754596

LCCN

93072236

OCLC

• ocm28591744
• 28591744
• SCSB-1997060

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library