Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process

Walter J. Oleszek

Cq Pr

Congress and Its Members

This guide is designed to help readers make sense of the complex legislative branch of the United States government. This edition examines the growing partisanship on the Hill, Congress' shifting relationship with the President, and the continuing centrality of fiscal issues.

and Oleszek Walter J. Davidson, Roger H.

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Congressional Quarterly Books

Politics & Social Sciences

Roger H. Davidson

Politics & Government

Thoroughly updated in a new edition, this is the definitive work on how congressional rules, procedures, and traditions affect the course and content of legislation. From committee room to the floor, in the House and in the Senate, the fundamentals of lawmaking are made clear. In a highly readable format—including dozens of lively examples, illustrations, charts, and extracts from real documents—the author explains the role of congressional leadership, illustrates the use of strategic tactics such as the Senate’s filibuster, and elucidates complicated parliamentary processes such as the amendment procedure. 
Among the topics that receive new or expanded coverage in the fifth edition are: the shift from the politics of deficit to the politics of surplus, innovations in Senate floor procedures and the use of new rules in the House, new developments in the ways that the two chambers resolve their differences, and new trends in legislative oversight. 
Oleszek’s concluding chapter examines broad trends in the lawmaking process as well as the transformations currently underway that will influence congressional lawmaking in the twenty-first century.

CQ Press

The definitive work on how congressional rules, procedures, and traditions affect the course and content of legislation, this seventh edition reflects both thorough updating and further refinement. In the House and the Senate, and from committee room to the floor, the fundamentals of lawmaking are made clear in Walter Oleszek's straight talking, informative book on Congress. With dozens of lively illustrations, charts, and extracts from real documents, Oleszek spotlights both "regular order" and unconventional procedures while explaining the role of congressional leadership, the use of strategic tactics, and complicated parliamentary processes. Readers will appreciate Oleszek's insight on the ever-sophisticated use of procedures--such as "filling the tree"--to achieve party and policy objectives in a time of sharper partisanship. 
Updates include: 
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<li>changes in congressional budgeting, such as the return of fiscal deficits, the clash between discretionary spending and entitlements, and the drive to curb the explosion in earmarks</li> <li>the "nuclear option" controversy over filibusters </li> <li>the wider use of technology in the lawmaking process</li>
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Oleszek’s new edition of his definitive work focuses on the significant procedural changes on Capitol Hill that are shaping policymaking in this new era of unified government. With dozens of lively illustrations, charts, and documents, Oleszek examines the use of innovative procedural devices by both the majority and minority parties to achieve their political goals and offers a reassessment of the role of conference committees in reconciling bicameral differences. 
Updates to this new eighth edition include examinations of: 
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<li>new congressional earmark reforms; </li>
<li>the disappearance of "open rules" in the House; </li>
<li>the surge in use of suspension of the rules in the House; </li>
<li>the 60-vote threshold for enactment of amendments and bills in the Senate; </li>
<li>the increase in "filling the amendment tree" in the Senate; and </li>
<li>the heightened use of old and new oversight mechanisms to "check and balance" executive actions and activities.</li>
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Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process

Congress and Its Members

Congress and Its Members

Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process

Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process

Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process