Bingaman, Jeff
Breakdown : lessons for a congress in crisis Jeff Bingaman ; foreword by Norman J. Ornstein - Albuquerque, New Mexico High Road Books ; an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press 2022 - xvii, 225 pages, 12w unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index (pages 214-225).
Foreword / Dysfunction in the Congress -- The breakdown of congressional governing norms -- Beware the five impediments -- The people's business - eight worthy efforts -- Support a strong economy -- Control deficits and debt -- Lead in Science and Technology -- Meet our energy and climate-change challenges (through 2008) -- Meet our energy and climate-change challenges (2009 and after) -- Improve health care -- Improve elementary and secondary education -- Manage and preserve public lands -- Avoid unnecessary wars -- How Congress can do better -- Suggestions for Congress -- Suggestions for members -- Jeff Bingaman's farewell speech to the Senate -- Notes -- Norman J. Ornstein -- Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Appendix. Index.
"In his thirty-year career representing the citizens of New Mexico in the United States Senate, Jeff Bingaman witnessed great things accomplished through the legislative process. He saw bold moves to protect the economy during the Great Recession, the expansion of health care through the Affordable Care Act, and the protection of public lands. He also had a front-row seat for the breakdown of governing norms and the radical increases in polarization and partisanship that now plague what was once called the world's greatest deliberative body. Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis traces the development of congressional dysfunction over more than three decades and provides eight case studies that examine how the crisis affects our government's ability to meet major policy challenges. We didn't always have a Senate that failed in its basic public obligations, including catalyzing a robust economy, confronting climate change, improving health care, fixing education, preserving public lands, and avoiding unnecessary wars. We do now. Combining insightful analysis of the causes and consequences of the dysfunction in Congress with thirty years of conversations, stories, standoffs, handshakes, and shakedowns from the Senate floor, Breakdown shows how Congress fails at the tasks Americans expect it to perform and, more importantly, how it might begin again to succeed" --
9780826364142 9780826364159 0826364144
2022939070
020737004 Uk
Bingaman, Jeff
United States. Congress.
1900-1999
Legislators--New Mexico--20th century--21st century.
Politicians--New Mexico--20th century--21st century.
Political Science--Commentary & Opinion
Political Science--American Government--Legislative Branch
Politics and government
United States--Politics and government.
New Mexico
United States
JK1021 / .B56 2022
328.73 Bin 42
Breakdown : lessons for a congress in crisis Jeff Bingaman ; foreword by Norman J. Ornstein - Albuquerque, New Mexico High Road Books ; an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press 2022 - xvii, 225 pages, 12w unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index (pages 214-225).
Foreword / Dysfunction in the Congress -- The breakdown of congressional governing norms -- Beware the five impediments -- The people's business - eight worthy efforts -- Support a strong economy -- Control deficits and debt -- Lead in Science and Technology -- Meet our energy and climate-change challenges (through 2008) -- Meet our energy and climate-change challenges (2009 and after) -- Improve health care -- Improve elementary and secondary education -- Manage and preserve public lands -- Avoid unnecessary wars -- How Congress can do better -- Suggestions for Congress -- Suggestions for members -- Jeff Bingaman's farewell speech to the Senate -- Notes -- Norman J. Ornstein -- Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Appendix. Index.
"In his thirty-year career representing the citizens of New Mexico in the United States Senate, Jeff Bingaman witnessed great things accomplished through the legislative process. He saw bold moves to protect the economy during the Great Recession, the expansion of health care through the Affordable Care Act, and the protection of public lands. He also had a front-row seat for the breakdown of governing norms and the radical increases in polarization and partisanship that now plague what was once called the world's greatest deliberative body. Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis traces the development of congressional dysfunction over more than three decades and provides eight case studies that examine how the crisis affects our government's ability to meet major policy challenges. We didn't always have a Senate that failed in its basic public obligations, including catalyzing a robust economy, confronting climate change, improving health care, fixing education, preserving public lands, and avoiding unnecessary wars. We do now. Combining insightful analysis of the causes and consequences of the dysfunction in Congress with thirty years of conversations, stories, standoffs, handshakes, and shakedowns from the Senate floor, Breakdown shows how Congress fails at the tasks Americans expect it to perform and, more importantly, how it might begin again to succeed" --
9780826364142 9780826364159 0826364144
2022939070
020737004 Uk
Bingaman, Jeff
United States. Congress.
1900-1999
Legislators--New Mexico--20th century--21st century.
Politicians--New Mexico--20th century--21st century.
Political Science--Commentary & Opinion
Political Science--American Government--Legislative Branch
Politics and government
United States--Politics and government.
New Mexico
United States
JK1021 / .B56 2022
328.73 Bin 42