Parliament and Congress: representation and scrutiny in the twenty-first century
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York [u.a.]
Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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| Online-Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 577 S. 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780199273621 |
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| adam_text | Table
of
Contents
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Table of Cases
xv
1.
Introduction
1
Separation of powers
1
Congressional and parliamentary powers
4
Courts and Acts
6
Themes
8
2.
Basic Constitutional Distinctions
11
Congress and the States
11
Electoral count and election of President and Vice President
17
Parliamentary sovereignty and statutory devolution
19
European Union: national accountability and European legitimacy
22
...
Without further enactment
... 24
Parliamentary scrutiny: the significance of
EU
legislation
24
Parliamentary debate: the merits of
EU
legislation
26
Subsidiarity and the powers of national parliaments
28
3.
The Four Houses
31
The term of a Congress and a Parliament, and the effect on legislation
and on Members
31
Assembly and organization of the four Houses
33
The presiding officers
36
The State of the Union and the State Opening
48
The Chambers: size and arrangement; access to
50
Extraordinary places of meeting
54
The Parallel Chamber and other expedients
55
The Lords: mending, not ending
56
Supremacy of the lower Houses
59
Treaties and International Agreements
66
Confirmation of nominations
72
Presidential disability and Vice Presidential vacancies
78
How a sitting is closed: adjournment from day to day
78
4.
5.
6.
Contents
Adjournments requiring consent of other House
80
Quorums
82
The significance of differences between a two-party and an effectively
multi-party legislature
88
Legislative staff
92
Records and papers
96
Media coverage
101
Working papers
105
Representatives, Members, Lords, and Senators
113
Numbers in the four Houses
113
Constituencies and districts: the Lords and the Senate
117
Terms of the mandates, vacancies, and resignations
120
Qualification and disqualification
124
Expulsion
127
Elections and election contests
128
Campaign practices and finance
132
Compensation and allowances
136
Staff and assistance
145
Procedural Basics
147
The general background
147
Sittings
149
Motions in Congress
150
The daily framework
153
Debate in Congress
159
Debate in Parliament
169
Decision making: motions and amendments
173
Orderliness in debate: relevancy
186
Order in debate: discipline
188
Dilatory motions
194
Limitations and time limits
195
Points of order, parliamentary inquiries, and appeals
203
Taking decisions: majorities and super-majorities
211
The Power of the Purse
225
Executives and legislatures: one source, two models
225
Congress: the budget process
228
Budget reconciliation bills
235
Revenues
241
Public debt (borrowing)
252
Parliament: Ways and Means
254
Supply
258
Appropriation
261
Supply: select committees
261
New expenditure
264
Supply, Ways and Means, and the Lords
265
Contents xi
Congress: authorization for appropriations
267
Appropriations
272
Requirements of the Budget Act
274
Requirements of House and Senate rules
278
Procedures for consideration
283
Other committees
288
House-Senate relations
290
Executive review of appropriations
294
Audit and value for money
297
Outcomes
301
7.
Scrutiny and Oversight
307
Introduction
307
How the oversight function is discharged
308
Bipartisanship in Congress
322
Evidence, witnesses, and subpoenas
323
Committees of the Legislature and the Executive
329
Individual legislators and oversight
336
Questions
337
A case study: war powers
349
Self-scrutiny
355
8.
Committees
359
Introduction
359
Bipartisanship in Parliament
360
Commons select committees
361
Lords select committees
363
Parliamentary select committee membership and activities
364
Witnesses before parliamentary committees
367
Committees in Congress: organization
368
The work of select committees in Parliament
372
Parliamentary select committees: patterns of work
374
Congressional committee staffs
376
Assistance to parliamentary select committees
377
Parliamentary select committees: outcomes
378
9.
Legislation
381
The general background
381
Where the initiative lies in proposing and amending legislation
383
Introduction and referral of bills: House of Representatives and Senate
387
Prom first reading to committee: Commons and Lords
391
Committees in Congress
395
Jurisdiction
395
Legislative procedures
407
Legislative scheduling
415
Time in the House and Senate
415
Unanimous consent in the House of Representatives
419
XU
Contents
Unanimous consent and consent agreements in the Senate
420
Discharges
425
The House Rules Committee and special orders
426
Committee of the Whole in Congress
430
Minority options: motions to recommit and other procedural votes
433
Clôture
in the Senate
437
Committee stage and after: Commons and Lords
439
Budget Act procedures in Congress
444
Resolving differences
444
Between the Houses in Congress
444
Conferences
448
Between the Houses in Parliament
461
New mechanisms and changing balances at Westminster
463
Presidential vetoes and Royal Assent
466
Delegated legislation: parliamentary approval and disapproval
468
Statutory legislative procedures in Congress
473
10.
Privilege and Contempt
478
Privilege: scope and significance
478
Particular privileges
484
Freedom of speech
484
Freedom from arrest
493
Contempt
495
Complaints, judgments, and penalties
500
Congress, Parliament, and the statute law
502
Impeachment
506
Parliamentary privilege under pressure
511
11.
Ethics and Standards
517
From the beginning to the
1990s 517
The Nineties and after: problems and solutions
523
Parliament
523
Congress
531
12.
Conclusion
547
Annex of Tables
549
Index
563
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