Unorthodox lawmaking : new legislative processes in the U.S. Congress /: new legislative processes in the U.S. Congress. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Barbara Sinclair.
• Other Names: Sinclair, Barbara
• Contents: Clean air : an introduction to how the legislative process has changed -- Multiple paths : the legislative process in the House of Representatives -- Routes and obstacles : the legislative process in the Senate -- Getting one bill : reconciling House-Senate differences -- Omnibus legislation, the budget process, and summits -- Why and how the legislative process changed -- A tale of two stimuli : the Bush-Pelosi-Boehner Stimulus Bill of 2008 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- Making nonincremental policy change through hyperunorthodox procedures : health care reform in 2009-2010 -- The Republican tax-cutting agenda and the budget process : the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 -- The consequences of unorthodox lawmaking.
• Edition: 4th ed
• Publisher Details: Washington DC : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Subjects: 328.73/077; Legislation -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483305080; 1483305082
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.