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The committee : a study of policy, power, politics, and Obama's historic legislative agenda on Capitol Hill /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marshall, Bryan W. (Author), Wolpe, Bruce C., 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Series:Legislative politics & policy making.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress > (111th : > 2009-2010)
United States. > Congress. > House. > Committee on Energy and Commerce.
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : about the authors : two beginnings, one old political hand and one new
  • Preface : outline of the committee
  • Hope and change meets the Hill
  • Cap-and-trade bill : American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
  • Confronting Waterloo? : the historic moment for health care reform
  • A big turn in tobacco road
  • From presidential "shakedown" to congressional apology : the politics of committee oversight of BP's Deepwater Horizon crisis
  • When ideological fidelity trumps the common good : the politics that ended the grand bargain
  • Beyond the historic 111th Congress
  • Appendix: Committee on Energy and Commerce major accomplishments of the 111th Congress.