Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Summary of Legislative Activities and Accomplishments of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate for the Ninety-second Congress, December 1972
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Summary of Legislative Activities and Accomplishments
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Summary of Legislative Activities and Accomplishments of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate for the ... Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Summary of Legislative Activities and Accomplishments of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate for the Ninety-third Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Summary of Legislative Activities and Accomplishments of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, for the Ninety-sixth Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Government's Greatest Achievements
Author: Paul C. Light
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815716370
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly, and put men on the moon. In Government's Greatest Achievements, Paul C. Light explores the federal government's most successful accomplishments over the previous five decades and anticipates the most significant challenges of the next half century. While some successes have come through major legislation such as the 1965 Medicare Act, or large-scale efforts like the Apollo space program, most have been achieved through collections of smaller, often unheralded statutes. Drawing on survey responses from 230 historians and 220 political scientists at colleges and universities nationwide, Light ranks and summarizes the fifty greatest government achievements from 1944 to 1999. The achievements were ranked based on difficulty, importance, and degree of success. Through a series of twenty vignettes, he paints a vivid picture of the most intense government efforts to improve the quality of life both at home and abroad—from enhancing health care and workplace safety, to expanding home ownership, to improving education, to protecting endangered species, to strengthening the national defense. The book also examines how Americans perceive government's greatest achievements, and reveals what they consider to be its most significant failures. America is now calling on the government to resolve another complex, difficult problem: the defeat of terrorism. Light concludes by discussing this enormous task, as well as government's other greatest priorities for the next fifty years.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815716370
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly, and put men on the moon. In Government's Greatest Achievements, Paul C. Light explores the federal government's most successful accomplishments over the previous five decades and anticipates the most significant challenges of the next half century. While some successes have come through major legislation such as the 1965 Medicare Act, or large-scale efforts like the Apollo space program, most have been achieved through collections of smaller, often unheralded statutes. Drawing on survey responses from 230 historians and 220 political scientists at colleges and universities nationwide, Light ranks and summarizes the fifty greatest government achievements from 1944 to 1999. The achievements were ranked based on difficulty, importance, and degree of success. Through a series of twenty vignettes, he paints a vivid picture of the most intense government efforts to improve the quality of life both at home and abroad—from enhancing health care and workplace safety, to expanding home ownership, to improving education, to protecting endangered species, to strengthening the national defense. The book also examines how Americans perceive government's greatest achievements, and reveals what they consider to be its most significant failures. America is now calling on the government to resolve another complex, difficult problem: the defeat of terrorism. Light concludes by discussing this enormous task, as well as government's other greatest priorities for the next fifty years.
Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
Author: Craig Volden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761522
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This 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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761522
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This 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.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
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Highlights of Current Legislation and Activities in Mid-Europe
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Activities and Accomplishments of the ... During the 89th Congress (1965-1966)
Author: United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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