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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 Overwhelmed: An Introduction to Congress’s Capacity Problem 1
4. Part 1 The Foundations of Congressional Capacity
5. 2 Capacity for What? Legislative Capacity Regimes in Congress and the Possibilities for Reform 11
6. 3 The Decline in Congressional Capacity 34
7. 4 How Congress Fell Behind the Executive Branch 51
8. Part 2 Knowledge and Expertise in Congress
9. 5 The Congressional Capacity Survey: Who Staff Are, How They Got There, What They Do, and Where They May Go 75
10. 6 What Do Congressional Staff Actually Know? 94
11. 7 How Committee Staffers Clear the Runway for Legislative Action in Congress 112
12. 8 Legislative Branch Support Agencies: What They Are, What They Do, and Their Uneasy Position in Our System of Government 128
13. Part 3 The Politics of Capacity in the Legislative Process
14. 9 Still Muddling Along? Assessing the Hybrid Congressional Appropriations Process 145
15. 10 Congress and the Capacity to Act: Overcoming Gridlock in the Senate’s Amendment Process 162
16. 11 The Issue Dynamics of Congressional Capacity 177
17. 12 Congressional Capacity and Reauthorizations 191
18. 13 How Experienced Legislative Staff Contribute to Effective Lawmaking 209
19. 14 Capacity in a Centralized Congress 225
20. 15 Congressional Capacity and Bipartisanship in Congress 239
21. Part 4 Capacity and the Politics of Reform
22. 16 Lessons from the History of Reform 255
23. 17 Dodging Dead Cats: What Would It Take to Get Congress to Expand Capacity? 268
24. Acknowledgments 277
25. Notes 279
26. References 295
27. List of Contributors 319
28. Index 325