ABSTRACT
Editor’s Introduction Otto von Bismarck, who became the first chancellor of modern Germany in 1871, once famously said that “laws are like sausage, it is better to not see them being made.” The legislative process is not pretty but it is important. It is through this process that policy problems are identified, salient solutions are brought forward, and compromises are worked out, which can allow proposed pieces of legislation to be signed by the president of the United States to become law.
