Jasmine Farrier
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813192628
- eISBN:
- 9780813135496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813192628.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines the seemingly unique post-9/11 political landscape, which also showcases the cycle of ambivalence in a very different and more condensed context. In the early months and years ...
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This chapter examines the seemingly unique post-9/11 political landscape, which also showcases the cycle of ambivalence in a very different and more condensed context. In the early months and years after the attacks, especially seen in the USA Patriot Act and the Iraq War resolution, Congress delegated extraordinary powers not only through the bills' text but also through the unorthodox speed and limited deliberations preceding their passage. Congressional rhetoric in the year after 9/11 echoed the Bush administration's argument that only it saw the nation's interest, while members who advocated the House and the Senate's traditional prerogative to review the administration's requests were branded as obstructionists or worse. Congress had its chances to question the nation's intelligence problems related to 9/11, the Iraq war, and the administration's management of the War on Terror in general during congressional reviews and confirmation hearings, but these did not result in extraordinary changes in policy or major cuts in Bush's spending requests.Less
This chapter examines the seemingly unique post-9/11 political landscape, which also showcases the cycle of ambivalence in a very different and more condensed context. In the early months and years after the attacks, especially seen in the USA Patriot Act and the Iraq War resolution, Congress delegated extraordinary powers not only through the bills' text but also through the unorthodox speed and limited deliberations preceding their passage. Congressional rhetoric in the year after 9/11 echoed the Bush administration's argument that only it saw the nation's interest, while members who advocated the House and the Senate's traditional prerogative to review the administration's requests were branded as obstructionists or worse. Congress had its chances to question the nation's intelligence problems related to 9/11, the Iraq war, and the administration's management of the War on Terror in general during congressional reviews and confirmation hearings, but these did not result in extraordinary changes in policy or major cuts in Bush's spending requests.
Michele L. Swers
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226022796
- eISBN:
- 9780226022963
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226022963.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter analyzes senators’ engagement of defense policy and discusses the importance of defense politics and the promotion of a national security policy. It also evaluates whether gender ...
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This chapter analyzes senators’ engagement of defense policy and discusses the importance of defense politics and the promotion of a national security policy. It also evaluates whether gender differences impact the defense policy activity of senators. Public opinion demonstrates that women pay more attention to social welfare issues than defense and foreign policy issues. Focusing on the crafting of the annual defense authorization bill in the 107th and the 108th Congress (2001–2004), the chapter analyzes senators’ votes on the Iraq War resolution and evaluates whether women are less likely to support war than are men.Less
This chapter analyzes senators’ engagement of defense policy and discusses the importance of defense politics and the promotion of a national security policy. It also evaluates whether gender differences impact the defense policy activity of senators. Public opinion demonstrates that women pay more attention to social welfare issues than defense and foreign policy issues. Focusing on the crafting of the annual defense authorization bill in the 107th and the 108th Congress (2001–2004), the chapter analyzes senators’ votes on the Iraq War resolution and evaluates whether women are less likely to support war than are men.
