Preface ix
Key Participants xix
Principal Organizations and Institutions xxiii
Chapter One "I Could Hear Everyone Gulp"
3(14)
Chapter Two The Man Who Wasn't Gray
17(9)
Chapter Three What Is to Be Done?
26(13)
Chapter Four An Orgy of Outrage
39(19)
Chapter Five A Politician for Life
58(9)
Chapter Six Back in the Game
67(17)
Chapter Seven "Downtown" Takes the Lead
84(12)
Chapter Eight A Rich Variety of Humanity
96(12)
Chapter Nine Politics First
108(12)
Chapter Ten An Impotent Minority
120(7)
Chapter Eleven Peddling Influence
127(15)
Chapter Twelve "We've Got an Opportunity Here"
142(8)
Chapter Thirteen In the Legislative Weeds
150(9)
Chapter Fourteen Making Sausage
159(30)
Chapter Fifteen Looking for a Path
189(15)
Chapter Sixteen The House Acts
204(23)
Chapter Seventeen Searching for Consensus
227(15)
Chapter Eighteen More Tactical Maneuvers
242(25)
Chapter Nineteen On the Senate Floor at Last
267(17)
Chapter Twenty Staff Warfare
284(14)
Chapter Twenty-One The Senate Acts
298(31)
Chapter Twenty-Two Conference Committee
329(30)
Chapter Twenty-Three Endgame
359(11)
Chapter Twenty-Four Still Broken
370(17)
Acknowledgments 387(4)
Notes 391(10)
Index 401