Dear Students: Robert’s Rules are not outdated. Mastery of the rules of procedure is a very quick way to victory if you are patient and skilled. Case in point: two new books by masters of the Washington power game, Congressman Henry Waxman and Senator Mitch McConnell.
But among the most telling references in the book was the pride Mr. McConnell took in his realization in September 1994 that he could mount filibusters against routine procedural motions required before House-Senate legislative negotiations could begin. As a result, he effectively ran out the clock that session on the campaign finance overhaul he was to fight for years.
“It dawned on me that it is pretty important and certainly useful to learn as much about the procedure as you can, because frequently procedure is policy,” Mr. McConnell said in an interview about the book, which he cooperated in producing
via Congressional Memo – In Books on Two Powerbrokers, Hints of the Future – NYTimes.com.
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