The United States Congress [proceedings of the symposium]Dennis B. Hale Contributors to this remarkable volume on the development and current status of the United States Congress use perspecÂtives from history and comparative politics to study congresÂsional law making, congressional debate, public support, the absence of leaders in congress, congressional oversight of adÂministration, congress and public finance, and corruption. The Essays are based on the Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Symposium on the U.S. Congress held at Boston College in 1981. The United States Congress gives us a portrait of the national legislature at a critical moment in its history, and seeks to proÂvide timely answers to fundamental questions: What is deliberÂation and how can Congress become a more deliberative inÂstitution? How have congressional elections changed? Has the relationship between voters and congressmen gone sour? Can Congress write a budget, direct the federal bureaucracy, or deÂvise a sensible foreign policy? How has the nature of leadership within the Congress changed in recent years? And, above all, what is the Congress of the United States supposed to be and to do? |
Contents
Is Congress a Deliberative Body? Joseph M Bessette | 3 |
Congress is DeliberativeCompared to What? | 13 |
Response by Arthur Maass Frank G Thomson Professor | 21 |
Response by Peter Woll Department of Politics Brandeis University | 27 |
1958 and 1978 | 33 |
Free Agents | 65 |
Response by Hon Silvio O Conte Member United States | 85 |
Response by Hon John Brademas Member United States | 91 |
Reforming Congressional Procedures | 165 |
Rice University | 233 |
Democratic Study Group | 239 |
Congress and Foreign Policy Hon Robert F Drinan S J | 249 |
The War Powers Resolution | 257 |
A View from the Agencies Joan Claybrook | 275 |
Four Themes on Congres | 285 |
Response by Paul Weaver Assistant Managing Editor Fortune | 297 |
Response by Carole J Uhlaner School of Social Sciences | 99 |
Whats He Like? Whats She Like? What are They Like? | 107 |
The Congressional Budget Process Hon Robert N Giaimo | 129 |
Congressional Budgets and Fiscal Policy Dennis S Ippolito | 135 |
Response by Alice M Rivlin Director Congressional Budget Office | 155 |
Response by Francis E Rourke Department of Political Science | 305 |
Financing Congressional Elections | 311 |
Speaking of Congress Elizabeth Drew | 349 |