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The United States Senate, unlike the United States House of Representatives, is a place where political minorities and individual members hold great power, resting on authority drawn from Senate rules and more than two hundred years of related precedents and traditions. This fundamental truth provides a necessary context for understanding the subject matter as detailed and explained in Senate Procedure and Practice: An Introductory Manual.
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Gold has taken a subject, U.S. Senate rules and procedures, that would normally occupy a few dozen pages of a manual and woven it into a book-length treatment filled with fascinating stories and discerning insights about how and why the Senate operates as it does. The result is an interesting, educational study of the Senate. Highly recommended. CHOICE Carefully crafted and useful book...He is also very good at explaining the dauntingly complex procedures laid down by the Budget and Impoundment Act and the budget reconciliation process, both in theory and in practice. If you are a Washington lawyer who has a Hill practice, a journalist who covers Congress, or an academic who needs a handy and readable reference book on Senate procedure, Martin B. Gold's book deserves as conspicuous a place on your shelf as it has on mine. Congress and The Presidency, June 13, 2011
About the Author
Martin B. Gold is a partner in Covington & Burling's Washington office and is co-chair of the firm's Legislative Practice Group. Most recently, Mr. Gold served as Floor Advisor and Counsel to United States Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, assisting in all aspects of floor procedure and strategy during Senator Frist's first session as Majority Leader. He has over thirty years of legislative experience in the public and private sectors. His prior Senate experience included service as counsel to former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and counsel to former Senator Mark O. Hatfield. Thereafter, Mr. Gold was a principal and founder of Gold & Liebengood and The Legislative Strategies Group, two leading Washington lobbying firms. Mr. Gold earned his J.D., M.P.A., and B.A. degrees from The American University.
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- PublisherRowman & Littlefield
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0742534529
- ISBN 13 9780742534520
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. From the Foreword by U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist:The United States Senate is often referred to as the world's greatest deliberative body. And that is for good reason. The Senate Chamber - from its inception to its Golden Age to the present day - has been the setting for some of the most moving, decisive, and consequential debates in American history.But why the Senate? Why the Senate and not its sister chamber - the House of Representatives? Why the Senate - so unlike the upper chambers of many other nations? Why the Senate - not for a few years or even decades - but continuously over the entire course of the Republic?The Senate is first and foremost a legislative body. It exists to pass legislation that may become law or to prevent legislation from becoming law. Beyond that, its responsibilities are to consent or deny consent to the ratification of treaties, to provide advice and consent on presidential nominees, and to try impeachments. It is by far the most powerful and influential upper chamber anywhere in the world.The Senate has a unique character - it is a small, stable, stately, thoughtful, independent, experienced, deliberative body. With equal legislative authority to the House of Representatives, it was hoped by the Framers that the Senate would be a steady anchor in the sometimes raging seas of representative democracy.This - along its duties specified in the Constitution - was the Framer's design for the Senate. But it was just a design. The Senate required a structure from which it could operate. And that structure has for more than 200 years taken take the form of Senate procedure - standing rules, rule-making statutes, and precedents.The Senate's rules, rule-making statures, and precedents are nothing less than the institution's DNA: they have evolved over time; they are intertwined; they are complex; and those who unlock and understand and apply Senate procedure can hold tremendous sway over their colleagues and the course of the Senate's deliberations. Seller Inventory # SONG0742534529
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