"Fast Track" Parliamentary Procedures of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act

Davis, Christopher M.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Politics and government;    Legislative bodies;    Parliamentary government;    Economic policy;    Economic stabilization;   

RP-ID  :  RS22985
RP-ID  :  RS22985_2008Nov14

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (Division A of H.R. 1424, P.L. 110-343) empowers the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase certain "troubled assets" as a means to stabilize the economy. This report examines this procedure and explains how itdiffers from the regular parliamentary mechanisms of the House and Senate.