Leading The United States Senate
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Leading The United States Senate
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
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The Us Senate And The Commonwealth
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Author : Mitch McConnell
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2019-06-07
The Us Senate And The Commonwealth written by Mitch McConnell and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-07 with Political Science categories.
Kentucky has long punched above its weight in the US Senate, as some of the nation's most distinguished senators have hailed from the Commonwealth. Despite its relatively small population for much of American history, Kentucky has produced a record two Senate majority leaders, a record three Senate majority whips, and one of the country's greatest lawmakers, Henry Clay. These Kentuckians played an important role in the evolution of leadership institutions in the Senate. Official positions such as Senate majority leader and majority whip are nowhere to be found in the Constitution or early American history, yet today these offices have essentially eclipsed the constitutionally created legislative leadership positions of vice president and president pro tempore. While Kentucky senators have played a vital role in leading the Senate and in its institutional history, no book has told the story in its entirety. The US Senate and the Commonwealth is the first book of its kind to provide a detailed, yet accessible, discussion of the US Senate's leadership throughout its 225-year history. Senator Mitch McConnell and Roy E. Brownell II weave together the history of the Senate with lively portraits of prominent Kentucky senators as well as firsthand reflections about legislative leadership by a Senate majority leader. The authors illuminate and humanize this discussion by exploring the colorful and vivid lives of fifteen Kentucky lawmakers, including Henry Clay, Alben Barkley, and John Sherman Cooper. This compelling and fascinating study is an essential resource.
The Invention Of The United States Senate
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Author : Daniel Wirls
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-04
The Invention Of The United States Senate written by Daniel Wirls and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-04 with Political Science categories.
The invention of the United States Senate was the most complicated and confounding achievement of the Constitutional Convention. Although much has been written on various aspects of Senate history, this is the first book to examine and link the three central components of the Senate's creation: the theoretical models and institutional precedents leading up to the Constitutional Convention; the work of the Constitutional Convention on both the composition and powers of the Senate; and the initial institutionalization of the Senate from ratification through the early years of Congress. The authors show how theoretical principles of a properly constructed Senate interacted with political interests and power politics in the multidimensional struggle to construct the Senate, before, during, and after the convention.
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On Commerce
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On Commerce written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Legislative hearings categories.
Captured
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Author : Sheldon Whitehouse
language : en
Publisher: New Press, The
Release Date : 2017-02-21
Captured written by Sheldon Whitehouse and has been published by New Press, The this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-21 with Political Science categories.
A U.S. senator, leading the fight against money in politics, chronicles the long shadow corporate power has cast over our democracy In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don’t “get right” by threatening million-dollar "dark money" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary—even the Supreme Court—in "business-friendly" ways; to "capture” the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "alternate reality" on public health and safety issues like climate change. Captured shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.
The Leader S Lecture Series
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
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U S Senate Exceptionalism
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Author : Bruce Ian Oppenheimer
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2002
U S Senate Exceptionalism written by Bruce Ian Oppenheimer and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Exceptionalism categories.
Drawing on diverse methodologies, this book's synthesizing work will be essential reading for all scholars of U.S. politics. The chapters are written by leading congressional scholars and cover topics including representation, elections, committees, party leadership, policy influence, and constitutional powers."--BOOK JACKET.
Lead And Zinc
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Lead And Zinc written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Lead industry and trade categories.
Considers legislation to authorize Interior Dept to provide subsidy payments to domestic producers of zinc and lead ores to offset below-par market prices.
Kill Switch The Rise Of The Modern Senate And The Crippling Of American Democracy
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Author : Adam Jentleson
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-12
Kill Switch The Rise Of The Modern Senate And The Crippling Of American Democracy written by Adam Jentleson and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Political Science categories.
With a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administration THE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER "A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” —Ezra Klein, New York Times An insider’s account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to hijack our democracy. Our democracy is under assault from homegrown authoritarians, with most observers blaming Donald Trump and the Republican Party that submitted to him. Yet as Adam Jentleson shows, the problem not only goes back to the nineteenth century, but is less about the presidency than it is about our nation’s most venerated institution: the United States Senate. A revelatory history of minority rule in America as expressed through the Senate filibuster, Kill Switch shows that white conservatives have long relied on the filibuster—which is not featured in the Constitution, and which, as Jentleson demonstrates, the Framers would have opposed—to shut down attempts to create a multiracial democracy. Featuring a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administration, Kill Switch will remain an essential warning about the costs of empowering this nation’s right-wing minority. • “Jentleson understands the inner workings of the institution, down to the most granular details, showing precisely how arcane procedural rules can be leveraged to dramatic effect.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times • “Careful and thorough and exacting.” —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books • “[An] excellent, surprising new book.” —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker
Titanic Disaster
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
Titanic Disaster written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Steamboats categories.