Why The Shift In Congress's Unorthodox Legislative Process

The textbook talks about three different factors that played a role in how Congress has shifted from the textbook legislative process to an unorthodox legislative process. The three factors that causes the shift in the legislative process is the internal reforms in both of the chambers, the overall congressional budget process, and the political climax have really influenced the change in the legislative process.
The first factor is the internal reforms of the chambers because the Senate and the House of Representatives made some kind of dramatic change in overall influence from the chambers. The Senate’s view were originally “unequally distributed” (Sinclair, 134) and that cause a lot of tension since most of the senior members were considered to be “predominantly conservative” (Sinclair, 134). The shift started to happen in the 1958 election because a huge
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed by Congress in response to President Nixon being very aggressive on challenging the powers of Congress. The budget act was designed to prevent any impoundments but it gave Congress the opportunity to allow them to pass a comprehensive policy change with the budget process. During President Carter term, the country had a “frighteningly high inflation” (Sinclair, 139) in response to this problem President Carter and the Democratic Majority decided that something needed to happen quickly. They used the budget process to achieve the spending cuts but the downside was time since there would be protest from any of the special interest groups. President Reagan tried to pass his economic program using the 1980 Budget Resolution because his program was going to pass Congress with very few vote as possible. The budget process was the way to address any of the country’s deficits