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Title: When the Senate Worked for Us
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate Lobbies
Author: Michael Pertschuk
Narrator: John Burlinson
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9780826521668
ISBN: 9780826521668
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Biography
Release Date: 30/09/2017
Description: Every politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time when Congress legislated in the public interest. In the 1960s and '70s, however, lobbyists were aggressive but were countered by progressive senators and representatives, as several books have documented.

What has remained untold is the major behind-the-scenes contribution of entrepreneurial Congressional staff, who planted the seeds of public interest bills in their bosses' minds and maneuvered to counteract the influence of lobbyists to pass laws in consumer protection, public health, and other policy arenas crying out for effective government regulation. They infuriated Nixon's advisor, John Ehrlichman, who called them ""bumblebees,"" a name they wore as a badge of honor.

For his insider account, Pertschuk draws on many interviews, as well as his fifteen years serving on the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee that Senator Warren Magnuson chaired and as the committee's Democratic Staff Director. That committee became, in Ralph Nader's words, ""the Grand Central Station for consumer protection advocates.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 500g
Type: Political Science
Release Year: 2017

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