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All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding 1st Edition

by Costas Panagopoulous (Author), Joshua Schank (Author)

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While learning procedures like the markup or cloture, the legislative process can seem mechanical and dry. What students hunger for, and greatly benefit from, is seeing lawmaking from the inside―the backroom politics that makes the process so fascinating, so real, so compelling. All Roads Lead to Congress drives students through one piece of legislation―the surface transportation bill―showing them the maneuvering and negotiating that go on among members of Congress and their staffers as they haggle over a huge pot of money. The bill provides an example of both sides of the domestic legislative coin, as members of Congress formulating the bill fight over both policy issues (mostly along party lines) and money (mostly along regional lines).

While working on the Hill, Costas Panagopoulos and Joshua Schank were able to follow the path of this legislation from inception to law, observing firsthand the twists and turns of its journey. While filled with details and dialogue reminiscent of a good novel, All Roads is sure to explain the various rules that structure legislation, the leadership styles and strategies at play, the tensions among levels of government, and the impact of the executive. Students are not only likely to read this intriguing case study of Hill life cover to cover, but they also might seriously consider an internship or future career on the Hill. More important, they will have absorbed conceptual ideas about Congress effortlessly.

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Costas Panagopoulos is assistant professor of political science and director of the Center for Electoral Politics and the Master's Program in Elections and Campaign Management at Fordham University. He is also research fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) from 2004 to 2005. His academic research, focusing on American politics with an emphasis on campaigns and elections, voting behavior, public opinion and Congress, has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and PS: Political Science and Politics. Panagopoulos was part of the Decision Desk team at NBC News in 2006 and has provided extensive political analysis and commentary for various print and broadcast media outlets including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, CNN, NBC Nightly News, Fox News, and BBC Television. Panagopoulos holds an undergraduate degree in government from Harvard University and a PhD in politics from New York University.
Joshua Schank is President and CEO of the Eno Transportation Foundation, a transportation policy think-tank. Previously he was the Director of Transportation Research at the Bipartisan Policy Center, where he directed a national transportation policy study. He has been a consultant with Parsons Brinckerhoff and ICF International. Schank advised Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on federal highway and transit legislation from 2002 to 2005. He has also been an analyst for the U.S. DOT Inspector General, and a transportation planner for the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City. In addition to a PhD in urban planning from Columbia University, Schank has a master's degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CQ Press; 1st edition (October 24, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 197 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0872894614
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0872894617
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.55 x 9 inches

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Joshua L. Schank is the first-ever Chief Innovation Officer for the Los Angeles County Metro and former President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation a non-profit foundation with the mission of improving transportation policy and leadership. Dr. Schank, who is an urban planner, has worked on federal and state transportation policy over a decade.
Dr. Schank was Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton during the development of the last six year transportation authorization bill (SAFETEA-LU). He has also worked as a Consultant with PB Consult and Senior Associate at ICF International in Washington, D.C., as well as the Office of the Inspector General’s in the U.S. Department of Transportation, and with the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City.
Dr. Schank’s extensive work in transportation policy and planning is well documented in his publications, including “All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding,” co-authored with Costas Panagopoulos and published by CQ Press in 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from Columbia University, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in urban studies from Columbia University.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lindsey and his sons, Max and Jonah.
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Happy Husband, Happy Wife

Text Book for Understanding SAFETEA-LU and How a Bill Becomes Law

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2014

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I'm a regional transportation planner for an MPO, tasked with interpreting federal transportation acts like SAFETEA-LU and its successor, MAP-21. This book gives a great play by play and analysis of how a bill becomes law and how SAFETEA-LU shook out.

To echo another commenter, School House Rock, this is not.

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2014

A bit of history.

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2013

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Book does a very good job detailing how sloppy and messy our congress operates.
Most work is done by a congressman's staff and there is alot of backroom deals and promises and lies.

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2008

Transportation policy is all about "who benefits?" and "who pays?" This book provides ample evidence of this well-known Washington truth. The result? Money talks, policy walks. Vulnerable members get put on transportation committees explicitly to "bring home the bacon" and thus protect their seats. The result? Transportation continues to be a "policy free zone" where huge amounts of money get (legally) skimmed off the top for "bridges to nowhere" and other useless projects. Taxpayers with any common sense will cringe at the stories the authors relate about meetings where "the number" (in billions of dollars) necessary to achieve member consensus is dramatically announced in a darkened room to a rapt group of committee staffers. At the same time America remains in the thrall of foreign oil suppliers when 70% of domestic oil consumption is guzzled up by transportation, 33% of greenhouse gases come from the transportation sector, and the cost to consumers from traffic jams exceeds $70 billion annually. If there is any time for transportation policy to change from being an oxymoron to a deliberate effort to invest in a new, green infrastructure promoting a new, green economy, that time is now. The authors provide a great service to their readers in educating them on the forces arrayed against such idealistic efforts, as well as supplying them with the tools necessary to bring true change to an area which up to now has been a policy wasteland.

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Paola Cano

never recieved the book!! Dont order here

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2009

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I ordered this book on sept 20. it is now october 16 and i still have not recieved it..there is no way to track it. i had to go and buy another one at the store.

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An indispensible look at an important policy debate

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2008

Perhaps no other slate of federal policies has more of an impact on the pace and shape of metropolitan growth and development than transportation. The scheduled 2009 reauthorization of the existing federal law will play an enormous role in shaping the physical landscape and economic destiny of this nation over the next several decades. For that reason this book could not come at a better time.

The authors provide a inside look at what really happens when transportation policy is on the table. It is essential to understanding the sad truth about what really matters to congress when it comes to transportation policy. It is a fascinating look at the inner workings of congress through the lens of the transportation debate e.g., personality, pressure, and position.

Though it is not particularly insightful to say that money politics dominates the transportation debate, this book solidly confirms it.

This is the book to read if you want to know how the game is played.

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Inside the Sausage Factory

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2008

Congress has $300 Billion to spend in a landmark transportation bill. "All Roads Lead to Congress", written by Senate staffers, takes the reader through the public posturing, staff fights, and backroom dealmaking that produce the ultimate legislation.

Schoolhouse Rock this is not.

Joshua Schank and Costas Panagopoulous were advisors to Senator Hillary Clinton, and provide the reader with a front row seat to the earmark-driven, credit-grabbing politics that too often dominate wise public policy.

The true genius of this book is its ability to cover every detail of the intentionally painstaking legislative process - while keeping the reader invested in the outcome.

It accomplishes this by bringing to life the players, especially the behind-the-scenes staffers who exercise tremendous unseen power.

A great read for students of the American democratic process.

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