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What Might Bring Regular Order Back to the House?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2010

Matthew Green  and
Daniel Burns
Matthew Green
Affiliation:
The Catholic University of America
Daniel Burns
Affiliation:
The Catholic University of America
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It is not hard to find critics of how the U.S. Congress operates today. Two of the most prominent, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, have bemoaned in particular Congress's failure to follow “regular order,” which in their 2006 book The Broken Branch they describe as a legislative process that incorporates “discussion, debate, negotiation, and compromise” (Mann and Ornstein 2006, 170).

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 223 - 226
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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