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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: wastrels of defense
    sub title: how Congress sabotages U.S. security
  name:
    name part: Wheeler, Winslow T
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In this expose, a veteran Senate defense adviser argues that since September 11, 2001, the conduct of the U.S. Congress has sunk to new depths and endangered the nation's security. Winslow T. Wheeler draws on three decades of work with four prominent senators to tell in detail how members of Congress divert money from essential war-fighting accounts to pay for pork in their home states and then run for cover when confronted with tough defense issues. With meticulous documentation to support his claims, Wheeler contends that this behavior is not confined to one party or one political philosophy. He also argues that the senators who promote themselves as reformers are not effective in their efforts to stop the pork and that journalists gloss over the damage."
  abstract: "Wheeler has filled this book with evidence of congressional wrongdoing, naming names and citing examples. Pointing to the extremes that have become routine in the legislative process, he focuses on defense appropriations and the willingness of those on Capitol Hill to load down defense bills with pork, in some cases with the Pentagon's help. On the question of deciding war, he accuses today's senators and representatives of lacking the character of their predecessors by positioning themselves on both sides of difficult questions, including the war against Iraq."
  abstract: "Wheeler concludes with a model for reform in which he proposes "twelve not-so-easy steps to a sober Congress," including his ideas for restoring both houses to their original roles and responsibilities."--Jacket.
  table of contents: The nature of the problem -- What is the problem? -- Ego is at the heart of the trouble -- Pork : it's worse than you've been told -- War is not hell : it's an opportunity -- Mr. Smith is dead -- Confessions of a pork processor -- Pork lows and highs -- How the system operates, or doesn't -- Oversight : the triumph of appearances over reality -- Watchdogs, lapdogs, and distorted lenses -- Beyond nonfeasance : the utility of distortion -- The engine of congressional good and evil : the staff -- Hill life and death -- The right and wrong way to go to war -- Politicians at their best -- Congress on its knees -- The week of shame -- Conclusion.
  note: Winslow T. Wheeler.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Congress
    topic: Appropriations and expenditures
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Department of Defense
    topic: Appropriations and expenditures
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Congress.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Department of Defense.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: USA
      name part: Congress
  subject:
    name:
      name part: États-Unis. Department of Defense.
  subject:
    topic: Waste in government spending
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Defenses
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Patronage, Political
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Dilapidation des fonds publics
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Défense nationale
    topic: Aspect économique
  subject:
    topic: Favoritisme
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Expenditures, Public
  subject:
    topic: Military readiness
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Patronage, Political
  subject:
    topic: Waste in government spending
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Militärausgaben
  subject:
    topic: Überprüfung
  subject:
    topic: Ersparnis
  subject:
    topic: Dépenses publiques
  subject:
    topic: Aspect économique
  subject:
    topic: Défense militaire
  classification: HJ7537 .W54 2004
  classification: 336.3/9
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      title: Campaigns & political culture (Booknotes)
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      title: Government (Booknotes)
  identifier: 159114938X
  identifier: 9781591149385
  identifier: 2004015003
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    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 040625
    record change date: 20240807185217.9
    record identifier: in00004809348
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng