![]() ![]() … When Obama came in, then it just sharply came to an end. Frank and Kaiser on bipartisanship: “It may be coming back now, but one of the is this sharp drop from the bipartisanship under Clinton and Bush.Frank on policy expertise: “You have to have pretty good expertise … if you go in to negotiate, and you don’t know the subject, you don’t know what you’re giving away and what’s important … The expertise comes first.” For an assessment of the degree to which members today engage in the specialization needed to build up expertise, see our recent work on foxes and hedgehogs in Congress.Figure out which ones you care the most about and then look at the power alignment in the committee, and try to figure out how you can trade your support for other people’s priorities to get support for yours to be included in the committee’s product.” Such a succinct and powerful piece of advice aligns so well with many of the lessons highlighted in the CEL New Member Guide. Frank on advice to new members: “Get on the best committee you can, from the standpoint of your interests, and look at the issues in that committee’s jurisdiction. ![]() Here are five quick quotes from the interview that link to the work of the Center: The two of them visited Vanderbilt University to participate in a roundtable discussion with then-Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos and Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jon Meacham, as part of Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Lecture Series. Kaiser’s book Act of Congress focuses on the passage of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, following the 2008 financial crisis. Barney Frank (D-MA), and with Washington Post reporter and award-winning author Robert Kaiser. We had the pleasure of sitting down for a wide-ranging conversation with former member of Congress, Rep. In this case, we present an interview conducted by CEL Co-Directors Alan Wiseman and Craig Volden in spring of 2019. For the next in our “Conversations with Effective Lawmakers” Series, we reach back into the vault of interviews conducted by the Center for Effective Lawmaking. ![]()
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