Lobbying Unorthodox Lawmaking.
By International Social Science Review
- Release Date: 2008-09-22
- Genre: Social Science
Description
Introduction When the 107th Congress (2001-02) passed the largest tax cut in American history, no hearings were held to consider the proposed bill. Observers of the legislative process might have expected an outcry over the failure of the committees to exercise due consideration of such costly provisions. Interest-group scholars might have expected protest from lobbyists accustomed to being heard on such bills. Instead, the silence was deafening.
