The Committee: A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama's Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill

Bryan William Marshall,Bruce C. Wolpe

The Committee: A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama's Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Country
United States
Published
2 July 2018
Pages
308
ISBN
9780472073832

The Committee: A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama’s Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill

Bryan William Marshall,Bruce C. Wolpe

For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce-one of the most powerful committees in Congress-Bruce C. Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer’s look at how committees develop and promote legislation. With its insider’s view of the rough-and-tumble politics of cap-and-trade, healthcare reform, tobacco, oversight, and the debt ceiling agreement, The Committee uniquely melds the art of politics and policymaking with the theory and literature of political science. The authors engage with the important questions that political science asks about committee power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the House. The insider politics and strategies about moving legislation in Congress, from internal and external coalition building to a chairman’s role in framing policy narratives, will captivate both novice and die-hard readers of politics.

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