Air Force Posture Statement 2008: Department of Air Force Presentation to the House Armed Services Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, Fiscal Year 2009 Air Force Posture Statement

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Wynne ◽  
Michael Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Armed Services Committee ◽  
Armed Services ◽  
House Armed Services Committee

Extreme Advocacy Leadership in the Pre-Reform House: Wright Patman and the House Banking and Currency Committee

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Owens
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Congressional Committees ◽  
Rules Committee ◽  
Armed Services Committee ◽  
Advocacy Leadership ◽  
Armed Services ◽  
Bear Witness

Committee chairmen in the United States House of Representatives were often very powerful figures until the reforms of the early 1970s – as the numerous tales about those stereotyped villains, the southern Democrats, bear witness. Yet, surprisingly little explicit typologizing about leadership in congressional committees appears in the academic literature despite a growing awareness of the different goals which congressmen pursue and the variety of environments in which they operate. Just two different models of chairmen's power were developed in the context of the pre-reform Congress. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the accepted view, perhaps caricature, was that committee chairmen were autocratic, obstructionist (at least as far as liberals were concerned), conservative, possibly senile, and more than likely representative of constituencies outside the mainstream of national politics. A list of chairmen seen as fitting into this mould would include men such as ‘Judge’ Howard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee from 1955 to 1967; his somewhat less skilful successor from 1967 to 1972, William Colmer of Mississippi; Graham Barden, the provocative chairman of the Education and Labor Committee between 1953 and 1960; and the authoritative Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the Armed Services Committee for seventeen years until 1966.

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