Disruption? : the Senate during the Trump era
edited by Sean M. Theriault
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | xiv, 277 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "The genesis for Disruption? The Senate during the Trump Era occurred in December 2020 when C. Lawrence Evans, Newton Family Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary, posted a lengthy analysis on Facebook of the Senate floor exchange between Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer on potential votes for overriding a veto on a defense bill and the $2,000 stimulus proposal. In that particular moment, the interplay of the Senate and then President Trump was at a critical moment. In the end, Congress overrode Trump's veto; the only one of his presidency. In a proposal to the Dirksen Congressional Center's Board of Directors, the one of us who at the time worked at the Center argued that "it will require sustained scholarly research to understand precisely the dynamics behind the Republican conference's machinations during the Trump presidency." The Board subsequently approved an initial grant of $25,000 to the other one of us to put together a book on how the U.S. Senate evolved during the Trump presidency"--
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| ISBN | 9780197767832. - 9780197767849
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