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Congressional Practice and Procedure: A Reference, Research, and Legislative Guide
Charles Tiefer
Tiefer has brought under one cover the contributions of many political writers, and practicing senators and representatives. His 12-page introduction reveals the extent of his reliance on their works. The subtitle summarizes the totality of his coverage of the subject. . . . Tiefer's experiences in various positions serving senators and representatives as well as in his present positions at Georgetown University Law Center and as deputy general counsel of the House of Representatives have enabled him to examine thoroughly the procedures and practices in the detailed complexity of everyday life in the US Congress. Choice
Tiefer's Congressional Practice and Procedure is the most current, complete, and scholarly treatise on the subject . . . a comprehensive, detailed, well-organized, and thoroughly researched guide. . . . Its thirteen heavily footnoted chapters are full of anecdotes and historical examples, some of them as current as Vice President Quayle, which weave together the formal, the historical, and the political aspects of congressional rules and functioning. . . . Advanced students thirsting for a sophisticated guide through the complexity and detail of congressional procedure will find it rewarding. RQ
In national decisions on crucial issues such as taxing and spending, health, economic regulation, defense, civil rights, and many other policy areas Congress occupies a commanding position. And, while many observers know generally how Congress proceeds, only a few insiders understand the complexities of the process. Congressional Practice and Procedure systematically examines Congressional procedure beginning with a perspective on how procedure and power play off each other. Tiefer explains how Congress structures itself, including the vital processes of appointing members, and referring bills, to choice committees and follows the progress of bills through various committee and subcommittee processes. Tiefer discusses House floor procedure, the roles of the Speaker and other leaders, the intricacies of the complex special rules, and focuses on the strategies of majority and opposition floor managers. The book describes the delicate balance between the Senate leadership and powerful individual Senators, leadership perogatives and unanimous consent agreements, and discusses at length the revolution in filibusters and cloture in the 1970s and the 1980s. The author also discusses conference committees and the all-important budget-appropriations process.
Meticulously documented with two thousand detailed textual footnotes to official, journalistic, and academic sources and an extensive bibliography, this authoritative and scholarly reference will be of immediate value to practicing attorneys, lobbyists, trade associations, and government relations specialists. Libraries, academicians and political science researchers will find it immensely useful as a major source of material on Congress.
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Cable Television and Other Nonbroadcast Video
Daniel L. Brenner, Monroe E. Price, and Michael I. Meyerson
Cable Television and Other Nonbroadcast Video provides clear, in-depth analysis and commentary on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations, Telecommunications Act of 1996, and Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992. It includes examination and discussion of emerging regulatory patterns for all areas of non-broadcast media. Topics covered include:
• Cable technology and its history
• Franchise establishment, enforcement and modification
• Cable system ownership and operations
• Regulations of program content
• Regulation of subscriber rates
• Franchise renewal
• Franchise fees and taxes
• Cable and copyright
• Cable television and the telephone companies
• Privacy
• Satellite master antenna television systems
• Satellite video delivery
• Direct broadcast satellites
• Microwave video services
• Pay per view services
• The Internet and cable
The text covers in-depth analysis of program content regulation and constitutional and statutory issues, as well as details all aspects affecting cable system ownership and operations to save research time.
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Mousetraps and Muffling Cups: One Hundred Brilliant and Bizarre United States Patents
Kenneth Lasson
Offers diagrams and descriptions for useful, as well as unusual, inventions, including escape suspenders, a short-range parachute, a horse taillight, the light bulb, burglar alarm, telephone, zipper, and sewing machine.
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Policy and Methods in German and American Antitrust Law: A Comparative Study
James Maxeiner
A remarkable reversal in popular satisfaction with antitrust law has occurred: Germany--once the classic land of cartels--now enforces an antitrust law vigorously and subject to little meaningful opposition, while the United States--itself the home of antitrust law--enforces its antitrust law erratically and against significant criticism. Whatever may be the precise measure of support in each country for antitrust laws, even the most cursory observation discloses a criticism of antitrust law in the United States not matched in kind or degree in the Federal Republic of Germany. This work investigates aspects of some of the many possible explanations--legal, social, and economic--for this remarkable turnaround. It considers perhaps the most obvious question: How do the two antitrust laws differ? In partial answer, it suggests that certain principal criticisms of American antitrust law reflect dissatisfaction as much with the legal methods by which that law is applied as with the law itself. German cartel law, Maxeiner suggests, utilizes different legal methods which avoid or mitigate many of the problems encountered in American antitrust law.
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Getting the Most Out of Washington: Using Congress to Move the Federal Bureaucracy
William S. Cohen and Kenneth Lasson
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The Workers: Portraits of Nine American Jobholders
Kenneth Lasson
Nine unusual portraits that expose the growing discontent of the American blue-collar worker with the quality of his life and work.
Afterword by Ralph Nader
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Environmental Rights and Remedies
Victor J. Yannacone Jr., Bernard S. Cohen, and Steven A.G. Davison
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