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I did something that's big news for me, and not typically what academic political scientists do:
I wrote a parenting book about our subject.
This is a medium-long thread on why/how.
Lindsey Cormack
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Lindsey Cormack
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PoliSci Professor running Dcinbox.com Book: How to Raise a Citizen & Why it's Up to You to Do It amzn.to/48eonQu CB8💗NYC
- A short thread on the legislative effectiveness of the 8 Republicans legislators who ousted Speaker McCarthy: Andy Biggs of Arizona has been in Congress since 2017. In that time, he has successfully authored and passed 1 law,
- Replying to @DCInboxWrecking ball ring leader Matt Gaetz of Florida has been around since 2015 and he also has never successfully passed a piece of legislation.
- Replying to @DCInboxBut don't be fooled into thinking these are good, effective governing members trying to make Congress work. These are largely people that others even within their own conference don't want to work with.
- Replying to @DCInboxKen Buck of Colorado has been in office since 2015 and has never successfully sponsored a piece of legislation signed into law.
- Replying to @DCInboxEli Crane also of Arizona is brand new. He doesn't really do legislating at all - he does however spend A LOT of time on right-wing media and does send really strange official e-newsletters.
- Replying to @DCInboxTim Burchett of Tennessee has only been in Congress since 2019, but like Buck, he too has never successfully authored a piece of legislation signed into law.
- Replying to @DCInboxBob Good of Virginia has been here since 2018, and he's got one thing to his name to go to the President, where it was vetoed,
- Replying to @DCInboxNancy Mace of South Carolina is newer than Andy Biggs, but she too only has a bill renaming a facility
- Replying to @DCInboxMatt Rosendale of Montana has only been in office since 2021 - but he like most everyone else in this list has never successfully passed a law.
- Replying to @DCInboxHR 4983 To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Gilbert, Arizona, as the Staff Sergeant Alexander W. Conrad Veterans Affairs Health Care Clinic.
- Replying to @DCInboxI know passing laws is HARD and is not the sole work of any one person, that many members are not successful, and that partisanship and leadership and a whole host of other things matter.
- Replying to @DCInboxHJ Res 45 Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to "Waivers and Modifications of Federal Student Loans"
- Replying to @DCInboxHR 6042 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 213 William Hilton Parkway in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, as the "Caesar H. Wright Jr. Post Office Building".