
Despite what your students may have learned in Schoolhouse Rock, the textbook "how-a-bill-becomes-a-law" scenario is a rarity. As evidenced with health care reform legislation, most major measures wind their way through the contemporary Congress in what Barbara Sinclair has...

"Barbara Sinclair does an excellent job of showing how contemporary lawmaking departs from the traditional legislative process. I can′t imagine teaching a course on Congress without this text--it's absolutely indispensable."
--Philip Klinkner, Hamilton College
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A look at the US legislative process, including the various detours or shortcuts a major bill is likely to encounter. The process is illustrated with real-life examples through a series of case studies on national service legislation, regulatory overhaul, the omnibus drug bill,...



An examination of the legislative process, including the various detours and shortcuts a major bill is likely to encounter. A series of case studies on national legislation illustrate the contemporary legislative process including the Omnibus Drug Bill and Clinton's economic...