Political Deals II

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:

 

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:

• Public lands provision of 2021 NDAA
• Kevin and Avonte's Law

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

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