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The House Committee on Ways and Means: Conflict Management in a Congressional Committee

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The House Committee on Ways and Means, according to its members, is assigned the responsibility of resolving some of the most partisan issues coming before Congress: questions of taxation, social welfare legislation, foreign trade policy, and management of a national debt which exceeds $300 billion. Yet members of the Committee also contend, at the same time, that they handle most of these problems in a “responsible” way. A Republican member of Ways and Means echoed the views of his fellow Committee members when he said “it's the issues that are partisan, not the members.” A Democratic member went so far as to claim that Ways and Means is “as bipartisan a committee as you have in the House.” And a Treasury Department official who has worked closely with Ways and Means for several years believes that it is a partisan committee in the sense that you get a lot of partisan voting. But while you get a lot of party votes the members discuss the bills in a nonpartisan way. It's a very harmonious committee, the members work very well and harmoniously together. Sure there is partisanship but they discuss the issues in a nonpartisan way.

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  • Manley, John F., 1965. "The House Committee on Ways and Means: Conflict Management in a Congressional Committee," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(4), pages 927-939, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:59:y:1965:i:04:p:927-939_08
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    1. Mark D. Ramirez, 2009. "The Dynamics of Partisan Conflict on Congressional Approval," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 53(3), pages 681-694, July.
    2. Terry Sullivan, 1976. "Voter's paradox and logrolling," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 25(1), pages 31-44, March.

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