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4. The legislative branch , part 2

4. The legislative branch , part 2. I. How a bill becomes a law II. Interest groups. I. How a bill becomes a law -appropriations -public hearings -bills can be shelved / pigeonholed - “to die in committee” -”floor consideration” -rules committee. Filibuster

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4. The legislative branch , part 2

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  1. 4. The legislativebranch, part 2 I. How a bill becomes a law II. Interest groups

  2. I. How a bill becomes a law -appropriations -public hearings -bills canbeshelved/pigeonholed -“to die in committee” -”floor consideration” -rules committee

  3. Filibuster -Frank Capra’sMr Smith Goes to Washington http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6UbYHCkoZs

  4. Filibuster: -record: South Carolina’sStromThurmond -“cloture vote”

  5. Conferencecommittee (joint committee)

  6. Line-item veto (1996-1998) • Pork-barrel spending (“pork”) • Riders • Earmarks

  7. Pocket veto • FDR: 635 vetoes, overridden 9 times • Clinton: 37/2 • W. Bush: 12/4 • Washington-Clinton: bills vetoed: about 3% (overridden: about 4%; 10% sinceJFK)

  8. 108th Congress (2003-2004): 8,600 bills; about 1,000 reported from committee; 454 became law

  9. II. Interest groups “K Street”

  10. Pullman Strike 1894: 30 people killed • 1917 Hitchman Coal & Coke Co v. Mitchell • National Industrial Recovery Act 1933 • National Labor Relation Act (“Wagner Act”) 1935 • Taft-Hartley Act 1947

  11. AFL-CIO: 1955 merger of the American Federation of Labor (1886; skilledworkers) + Congress of IndustrialOrganizations (1935; more open) • Teamsters • US Farm Bureau Federation, National Grange, National Farmers Union • Faulkner: “We no longer farm in Mississippi cotton fields. We farm now in Washington corridors and Congressional committee rooms.” • National Medical Association • ACLU

  12. amicuscuraebriefs • “revolving door”

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