A History of the United States Senate Republican Policy Committee, 1947-1997U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997 - 126 páginas |
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Página 11 - In order to narrow the widening gap between the executive and the legislative branches, we recommend that the Senate and House majority policy committees serve also on a formal council to meet at regular intervals with the Executive and with such members of his Cabinet as may be desirable, to consult and collaborate in the formulation and carrying out of national policy and to improve relationships between the two branches of the Government.
Página 43 - Cong., 2nd sess., 1085-1103. With criticism of investigative tactics mounting, the Republican Policy Committee in February 1954 proposed new rules under which a vote of the full committee would be necessary to authorize any subcommittees; hearings would be prohibited unless a quorum was present; and committees were restricted from delegating subpoena power, initiating an investigation, holding a hearing outside of the District of Columbia, or taking confidential testimony unless authorized by a majority...
Página 58 - Neither the members of the Republican Policy Committee nor other Republican Senators are responsible for the statements herein contained, except such as they are willing to endorse and make their own.
Página 66 - the trick was to crack the wall of separation enough to give the Congress a feeling of participation in creating my bills without exposing my plans at the same time to advance Congressional opposition before they even saw the light of day. It meant taking risks, but the risks were worth it.
Página 11 - Act, 1947, provides for maintenance of a staff for a majority policy committee and a minority policy committee in the Senate, consisting of seven members each, for the formulation of over-all legislative policy of the respective parties, the members of such staffs to assist in study, analysis, and research on problems involved in policy determinations...
Página 94 - CONSTITUTIONALISM 14. Donald Robinson, "If the Senate Democrats Want Leadership: An Analysis of the History and Prospects of the Majority Policy Committee," in Policy-making Role of Leadership in the Senate, papers prepared for the Commission on the Operation of the Senate, 94th Congress, 2d session, pp. 40-57. 15. Sundquist, Decline and Resurgence, p. 436. 16. Cf. Madison's speeches on August 7 and August 31 at the federal convention; his argument in Federalist...
Página 51 - ... bureau among the litter. The Republican Senate Policy Committee will meet once a week, but it will do so only upon carefully printed notices circulated to the committee's members officially to inform them that there is to be a meeting. The Democratic Policy Committee will meet — perhaps — once a week, and when it does the thing seems simply to happen and members will stroll in, usually late, with the air of a man dropping into another's office to have a drink and, having nothing better to...
Página 27 - Leffingwell to be Secretary of State. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to this nomination? The Yeas and Nays have been ordered, and the clerk will call the roll.
Página 94 - Barbara Sinclair, The Transformation of the US Senate (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989); and Sarah A. Binder and Steven S. Smith, Politics or Principle?: Filibustering in the United States Senate (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997).