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

Bryan William Marshall

ISBN 10: 0472038826 / ISBN 13: 9780472038824

Published by The University of Michigan Press, 2021

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2021. 2nd Edition. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Committee: A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama s Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill
• Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472038826
• ISBN 13: 9780472038824
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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. In this new edition, the authors revisit the relationship between the executive and Congress in the wake of the sweeping changes wrought by the Trump administration, as well as thoughts about how that relationship will change again as President Biden faces a 117th Congress that is strikingly similar to Obama’s 111th. 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.

About the Author

Bryan W. Marshall is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Miami University.

Bruce C. Wolpe has served as Chief of Staff to Julia Gillard, Australia’s 27th Prime Minister and Senior Adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chair of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce.