Oregon Blue Book
Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 232
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Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: California. Legislative Counsel Bureau
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 962
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 810
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 1414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author: Craig Volden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-27
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0521761522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.
Author: West Virginia
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Bernhard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-02-01
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 022651031X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one’s district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage with the media to cultivate a national reputation? William Bernhard and Tracy Sulkin argue that these decisions and others define a “legislative style” that aligns with a legislator’s ambitions, experiences, and personal inclinations, as well as any significant electoral and institutional constraints. Bernhard and Sulkin have developed a systematic approach for looking at legislative style through a variety of criteria, including the number of the bills passed, number of speeches given, amount of money raised, and the percentage of time a legislator voted in line with his or her party. Applying this to ten congresses, representing twenty years of congressional data, from 1989 to 2009, they reveal that legislators’ activity falls within five predictable styles. These styles remain relatively consistent throughout legislators’ time in office, though a legislator’s style can change as career goals evolve, as well as with changes to individual or larger political interests, as in redistricting or a majority shift. Offering insight into a number of enduring questions in legislative politics, Legislative Style is a rich and nuanced account of legislators’ activity on Capitol Hill.
Author: John V. Sullivan
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Mason
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 804
ISBN-13: 9781580249744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Ekins
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0191645931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre legislatures able to form and act on intentions? The question matters because the interpretation of statutes is often thought to centre on the intention of the legislature and because the way in which the legislature acts is relevant to the authority it does or should enjoy. Many scholars argue that legislative intent is a fiction: the legislative assembly is a large, diverse group rather than a single person and it seems a mystery how the intentions of the individual legislators might somehow add up to a coherent group intention. This book argues that in enacting a statute the well-formed legislature forms and acts on a detailed intention, which is the legislative intent. The foundation of the argument is an analysis of how the members of purposive groups act together by way of common plans, sometimes forming complex group agents. The book extends this analysis to the legislature, considering what it is to legislate and how members of the assembly cooperate to legislate. The book argues that to legislate is to choose to change the law for some reason: the well-formed legislature has the capacity to consider what should be done and to act to that end. This argument is supported by reflection on the centrality of intention to the nature of language use. The book then explains in detail how members of the assembly form and act on joint intentions, which do not reduce to the intentions of each member, before outlining some implications of this account for the practice of statutory interpretation. Developing a robust account of the nature and importance of legislative intention, the book represents a significant contribution to the literature on deliberative democracy that will be of interest to all those thinking about legal interpretation and constitutional theory.