CMC Congress Course: Political Deals II

ABOUT THIS BLOG

I shall post videos, graphs, news stories, and other material there. We shall use some of this material in class, and you may review the rest at your convenience. You will all receive invitations to post to the blog. (Please let me know if you do not get such an invitation.) I encourage you to use the blog in these ways:

To post questions or comments about the readings before we discuss them in class;
To follow up on class discussions with additional comments or questions.
To post relevant news items or videos.

There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges.

Last year's roster

For Tuesday, Davidson, ch. 10 and 11.

Partisanship, bipartisanship, and East Palestine

Partisan politics continues, though. See the CRA

Crisis and Scandal as a Prod to Action

Sanders and McCain find a deal

Bernie Sanders and John McCain

Policy Windows and The Issue-Attention Cycle

Coda II: Infrastructure and the important of policy windows

Public Lands Case Study

Most public lands are in the West:

Image result for public lands forests map

Public Lands 2019

A couple of quotations about Congress and life in general:

"At some point somebody has to decide, let's do it the old-fashioned way, which is `one thing I hate for one thing I love.'" (Lawrence, p. 39)
"Here's a list of what we have to have. Here's a list of the ones we really, really hate. Here's a list of `if you put this language on page 4 we could swallow it.' And then you work that list." (Lawrence, pp. 40-41).

The vehicle

(The military administers 8.8 million acres of land)

More recent examples:

THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IS PRIMARILY A SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCY.

The 2014 farm bill and the "dairy cliff" penalty default (Lawrence, p. 51)