The Committee with Busboys and Poets Books
Date and Time
Nov 1, 2018 6:30 pm
Location
Shirlington
4251 S. Campbell Ave, Arlington, Virginia, 22206
Nov 1, 2018 6:30 pm
Shirlington
Please join us as authors Bruce C. Wolpe and Bryan W. Marshall discuss their deftly crafted insider account of how congressional committees really work. For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce—one of the most powerful committees in Congress—Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer’s look at how committees develop and promote legislation. With its insider’s view of the rough-and-tumble politics of cap-and-trade, healthcare reform, tobacco, oversight, and the debt ceiling agreement, The Committee uniquely melds the art of politics and policymaking with the theory and literature of political science. The authors engage with the important questions that political science asks about committee power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the House. The insider politics and strategies about moving legislation in Congress, from internal and external coalition building to a chairman’s role in framing policy narratives, will captivate both novice and die-hard readers of politics.
*The book will be available for purchase at our bookstore prior to and during the event.
Author Bios:
Bryan W. Marshall is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Miami University.Bruce C. Wolpe has served as Chief of Staff to Julia Gillard, Australia’s 27th Prime Minister and Senior Adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chair of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
About the Co-sponsor:
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The Committee: A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama’s Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill - Bryan W. Marshall and Bruce C. Wolpe
