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Notes Introduction Epigraph sources: Robert C. Byrd, Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency (New York: Norton, 2005), 46; Roger Simon, “Joe Biden and the Mouth That Soars,” Politico, February 19, 2007, available at http://www .politico.com/news/stories/0207/2828.html (accessed August 19, 2008); Debate on Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, HR 1424, 110th Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Record 154 (October 3, 2008): H10756. 1.National Defense Authorization Act for FiscalYear 1995,HR 4301,103rd Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Record 140 (May 24, 1994): H3908 (Andrews); Trade Act of 2002, HR 3009, 107th Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Record 148 (July 27, 2002): H5975 (Thomas). 2. David R. Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection, 1st ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974), 62. 3. David R. Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection, 2nd ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), xvi. 4. Jeffrey K. Tulis, The Rhetorical Presidency (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987), 14. 5. For a diverse sample, see Joseph M. Bessette, The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994); Richard L. Hall, Participation in Congress (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996); David R. Mayhew, America’s Congress: Actions in the Public Sphere, James Madison through Newt Gingrich (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000); Jeffrey K. Tulis, “Deliberation between Institutions ,” in Debating Deliberative Democracy, ed. James S. Fishkin and Peter Laslett (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), 200–211; and Gary Mucciaroni and Paul J. Quirk, Deliberative Choices: Debating Public Policy in Congress (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). 6. See Richard F. Fenno Jr., Congressmen in Committees (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973). 7. Mayhew, Congress (1st ed.); R. Kent Weaver, “The Politics of Blame Avoidance,” Journal of Public Policy 6, no. 4 (1986): 371–98. 8. Richard F. Fenno Jr., Home Style: House Members in Their Districts (Boston : Little, Brown, 1973). 9. D. Roderick Kiewiet and Mathew D. McCubbins, The Logic of Delega- tion: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). 10. David Epstein and Sharyn O’Halloran, Delegating Powers: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach to Policy Making under Separate Powers (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999). 11. Samuel P. Huntington,“Congressional Responses to the Twentieth Century ,” in The Congress and America’s Future, ed. David B. Truman (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965), 6–38; Lawrence C. Dodd, “Congress, the Constitution , and the Crisis of Legitimation,” in Congress Reconsidered (2nd ed.), ed. Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1981), 390–420; James L. Sundquist, The Decline and Resurgence of Congress (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1981). 12. See David Rohde and John H. Aldrich,“The Logic of Conditional Party Government: Revisiting the Electoral Connection,” in Congress Reconsidered (7th ed.), ed. Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2001), 260–92; Gary W. Cox and Mathew D. McCubbins, Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representatives (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Steven S. Smith, Party Influence in Congress (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007). 13. See Bruce I. Oppenheimer, “The Paradox of Republican Control,” in Congress Reconsidered (6th ed.), ed. Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1997), 371–89; Joseph Cooper, “From Congressional to Presidential Preeminence,” in Congress Reconsidered (9th ed.), ed. Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2009), 361–92; Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); and Sarah A. Binder, Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein, and Molly Reynolds, Mending the Broken Branch, vol. 3, Assessing the 110th Congress, Anticipating the 111th (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, January 2009), http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/ rc/papers/2009/0108_broken_branch_binder_mann/0108_broken_branch_ binder_mann.pdf (accessed May 28, 2009). 14. Eric Schickler, Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the US Congress (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001). 15. Joel D. Aberbach, Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1990); David R. Mayhew, Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946–2002, 2nd ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005); Charles O. Jones, The Presidency in a Separated System, 2nd ed. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution , 2005); James A. Thurber, ed., Rivals for Power: Congressional-Presidential Relations, 3rd ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). 16. Aaron Wildavsky, “The Presidency...
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