Congress from the Inside : Observations from the Majority and the Minority

by BROWN SHERROD

• ISBN13: 9780873386302
• ISBN10: 0873386302
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Summary

Four decades of Democratic control of Congress abruptly came to an end with the 1994 elections, which propelled the Republican party to an unfamiliar role as the majority party in both houses of Congress. In his second term as a congressman from Ohio, Sherrod Brown was thrust into the frenetic, very partisan, first "100 days." This account of the transition from political majority status to minority status discloses the trauma felt by one party and the exhilaration experienced by the other as one era ended and a new one began.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(4)
Acknowledgments	xiii	(2)
Introduction	xv
Part I	3	(126)
1 Election 1992: Getting There	3	(19)
2 In the District	22	(13)
3 In Committee	35	(11)
4 In the Chamber	46	(16)
5 The Budget	62	(9)
6 The North American Free Trade Agreement	71	(12)
7 The Great Health Care Debate	83	(9)
8 The Crime Bill	92	(8)
9 The Mail, the Phones, and Other Things	100	(10)
10 Election 1994	110	(19)
Part II	129	(100)
11 Intelligence and Surveillance	129	(4)
12 The Coup and the Revolution	133	(25)
13 Storming the Palace: The Government Shutdown	158	(19)
14 The Counteroffensive: M2E2	177	(11)
15 The Truce	188	(12)
16 The Campaign	200	(19)
17 The 105th Congress	219	(10)
Postscript: Election 1998	229	(8)
Index	237