American Senate An Insider's History

Name: American Senate An Insider's History
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ISBN: 9780195367614

ISBN-10: 0195367618

ISBN-13: 9780195367614

Edition: 2013

Authors: Neil MacNeil, Richard A. Baker

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This book explores highly charged topics that give special meaning to the U.S. Senate's life and culture. They include the decades-long struggles between the Senate and the President for control in shaping legislation; the origins and substance of the Senate seniority system; the bizarre evolution of the filibuster from an effective minority weapon into a day-to-day Senate affliction; the relatively recent emergence of the majority leader, partially in violation of longstanding chamber rules, into the Senate's most important member; and the story of the Senate's long and bitter relations with the House of Representatives, as both chambers gradually grew into parliamentary polar opposites,…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/28/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.53" long x 1.48" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Prologue: Entering the Contemporary Senate



Money and Politics: Electing US Senators



The Collapse of Campaign Finance Reform



Dancing with Presidents: A Wary Embrace



Struggling for Primacy: From TR to FDR



Losing Ground to the Imperial Presidency



Living with the House of Representatives



The Center to Which Everyone Comes



Leadership Empowered: The Modern Era



The Senate Investigates



The Watchdogs



Debate, Deliberation, and Dispute



Dilatory Tactics



Reform and Reaction


To the Future


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index