The Committee: A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama's Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill (Legislative Politics & Policy Making) - Softcover

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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.

"Bryan Marshall and Bruce Wolpe have produced an indispensable book on how Congress really works." ---Charles E. Cook, Jr., Editor & Publisher, The Cook Political Report and Columnist, National Journal

"One of the 111th Congress' super-staffers Bruce Wolpe and scholar Bryan Marshall have produced a masterful and human treatment of how politics churns through a powerful committee. A gripping and thoughtful read for those needing a dose these days on the considerable power of the legislative branch." ---Steve Clemons, Editor at Large, The Atlantic

"A lively and penetrating treatment of the contemporary Congress sure to engage students of American politics and policy. Highly entertaining and enlightening." ---Thomas E. Mann, University of California, Berkeley

"Marshall and Wolpe have written a unique book---truly one of kind." ---Steven Smith, Washington University

"The authors go well beyond the politics and the policy and provide the critical ingredient of the legislative process. Whether a novice or hard-core veteran of the Congress's critical role in shaping our national priorities, you owe it to yourself to read this new University of Michigan analysis by Bryan Marshall and Bruce Wolpe." ---Jeffrey R. Biggs, PhD, retired director of the American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship Program

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