LSS Newsletter, January 2009, Front

Volume 32, Number 1, January 2009

Legislative Studies Section Newsletter is published at the Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, under the authority of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. The LSS and APSA are non-profit educational associations. The Newsletter is uploaded to this Web site twice yearly: in January and in July.

Membership in LSS includes a subscription to Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Editor:

Ronald M. Peters, Jr.

Editor, "Extension of Remarks":

Valerie Heitshusen

Congressional Research Service

Co-Editor:

Cindy Simon Rosenthal

Managing Editor:

LaDonna Sullivan

Editorial Assistant:

Laurie McReynolds

Web Master:

Robert Kelly, Jr.

From the Chair

Lawrence C. Dodd

University of Florida

The LSS Newsletter this January presents the first volume of ‘Extension of Remarks’ prepared by its new editor, Valerie Heitshusen, which includes scholarly perspectives on the historic congressional events of this past fall and a look forward to the 111th Congress. My appreciation to Val for an excellent job in preparing her first EOR and to the authors for sharing their timely essays.

Let me also note that the Newsletter contains the list of LSS Award Committees and the members of those committees. Please submit all relevant material for the Richard F. Fenno Book Prize, the Alan Rosenthal Book/Article Award, the Carl Albert Best Dissertation Award, the CQ Best Paper Award and the Jewell-Loewenberg Best LSQ Article Award to the relevant committees by March 1. And my thanks to the members of these committees and to the LSS Nominations Committee for the hard work they will be doing over the next several months.

Finally, let me note that the Carl Albert Center will conduct a survey of all LSS members, at the request of the LSS Council, to gauge member sentiment with respect to ways to ensure the maintenance and growth of the LSS membership. Please take the time to participate in that survey, which we expect to conduct this March.

I look forward to seeing all of you in Toronto and to the excellent panels being prepared by Patrick Sellers, the LSS Program Chair for the upcoming APSA Convention.