Bypassing Deliberation: How Party Control Shapes Amendment Opportunities in the House

• In Event: Rules, Procedures, and Policy

Brief Overview

This paper examines procedural shortcuts and deliberation in the House of Representatives. Drawing on amendment data in the Rules Committee and on the floor, we show that unorthodox lawmaking alters who can speak and whose ideas reach the floor.

Authors

• Austin Bussing, Trinity University

• Nicholas Howard, Concordia College at Moorhead

• Joshua Yoshio Lerner, NORC at the University of Chicago