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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"congressional committees"”.
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A Study of the Evolution of Food Security Discourse, Mobilization, and Congressional Champions
… role for public health professionals and congressional committees in shaping the discourse and fortifying their relevance in food security policymaking. In short, the what, when, and who of issue definition becomes a foundation for food security policymaking. This study used in-depth …
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DEEP BENCH: CONGRESSIONAL STAFF IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Capitol Hill is bustling with thousands of congressional staffers. Despite their numbers, and members readily admitting their reliance on these congressional aides, few scholars have turned their attention towards how lawmakers make use of their staffing resources or how these choices affect their …
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LOBBYING FOR ACCOUNTING LEGISLATION
… accounting and their consequences using the U.S. congressional archive and lobbying disclosure data. I focus on congressional bills aimed at changing accounting rules (“accounting bills”), which attracted over a billion dollars in lobbying from industries and firms between 1999 and 2022. Notably, …
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HUD-VASH Efficiency and Effectiveness: Homelessness and Veterans' Housing Policy
… languished under advocacy coalitions' control of congressional committees. These coalitions' identification of the Housing First policy strategy as the pre-eminent "cause" of and "cure" for the underutilization of vouchers became a point of contention, limiting growth. In the absence of systematic …
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A Nominal Group Process Approach to Identification of Assessment Needs of Multi-Problem Elderly.
… which come ultimately under control of 49 Congressional committees and sub-committees (Satchell, 1980). These services, seldom coordinated at the highest administrative levels, often reach the elderly through multiple local agencies in a fragmentary form with many categorical restrictions. …
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A Peculiar Place for the Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Territorial Utah
… later, when Utah's laws were under review by Congressional committees, the public announcement of polygamy overshadowed information that betrayed slavery's practice in Utah. The fact that slavery's practice in Utah was never widely known, especially by members of Congress, delayed for nearly …
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The taking of the Fifth : the contested 1960 election in the Indiana Fifth Congressional District
… detail."Taking the Fifth" is about a contested congressional race that was in dispute between various local and forces longer than any other House race on record.The Fifth District of Indiana leaned Republican, but it swung to the Democrats about once a decade. The 1960 election broke that …
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Are Appropriators Actually Authorizers in Sheep's Clothing? A Case Study of the Policymaking Role of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
… it determines the jurisdiction of the congressional committees that oversee those bills. However, a number of scholars have concluded that the authorization-appropriations dichotomy is substantially different in practice than the model suggests. Research in this area has shown that …
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An Empirical Study of Employee Relations and Managerial Malpractice Risks in a Four-Year Public Higher Education System
… and fees has become a national priority, with congressional committees and scholars interested in solving this persistently stubborn and often intractable problem. Although a number of reasons for this phenomenon have been discussed, one theoretically plausible but untested explanation involves …
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The Accounting Profession Goes to War: Accounting Contributions to World War II
… accounting societies through their leadership, committees, and publications went to great lengths to facilitate the smooth running of the nations' war-time economy. The leaders, through both word and deed, allayed fears, provided direction and inspiration, and constantly prodded accountants to …
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Congressional Reporting: A Management Process to Build a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Congressional reporting requirements are an integral part of congressional oversight. These oversight-reporting activities are an important element of the concept of a legislative-centered public administration (Rosenbloom, 2000) "derived from the major discussions, decisions, and actions taken by …
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Do Politics Matter to this Watchdog? The Effects of Ideology on Civil Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
… of some of the agency's political principals -congressional committees responsible for the oversight and annual budget of the SEC - significantly affect the agency's strategic enforcement behavior. This element of my research extends a line of political science literature that analyzes who …
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Essays in oil, conflict, and the development of resource-rich countries
… reallocation of contributions toward members of congressional committees that reviewed bills of interest to Saudi Arabia and away from those who received donations from pro-Israel interest groups. In the second chapter, I assess the impact of a nationalization quota policy in Saudi Arabia on …