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No. 9 on the list of Tampa Bay’s Most Powerful Politicians: Gus Bilirakis, Florida Politics, March 2023
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: Women in Congress Lead Committees That Control U.S. Spending; Celebrating Suffragists of Color, Ms. Magazine, February 2023
George Santos’ college education is a myth. Is he the only one lying? We checked, USA Today, January 2023
Investigations, Distrust, and Stigma: Why George Santos May Not Get Much Done in Congress, TIME, January 2023 (also featured in Yahoo! News)
Earth to Republicans: voters don’t care about your investigations, Fox News, December 2022
Carolyn Maloney looks back on 40 years of ‘fighting for equality’, Gay City News, December 2022
Brothers in arms, Deseret News, December 2022
Ahtna, Incorporated Endorses Mary Peltola for U.S. Congress and Lisa Murkowski for U.S. Senate, Alaska Native News, November 2022
Sen. Jerry Moran visits Greensburg, Kiowa County Signal, November 2022
Bennet, O’Dea spar on issues in final Colorado Senate debate, Associated Press, October 2022 (also featured in USA Today, MyNorthwest, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Political Candidates Speak Out: Backgrounds, Goals Explained, AllOTSEGO, October 2022
Higgins Rated One Of Most Effective Republican Lawmakers, Press Release from the Office of U.S. Congressman Clay Higgins, October 2022
Bell Ringer: The Greatest U.S. Senator, C-SPAN, October 2022
Joe Neguse: We’ve accomplished much for CD 2 in 2 years but work is far from finished, The Coloradoan, October 2022
Third Congressional District/Dean Phillips: I’ll continue defending abortion rights, families’ needs, Star Tribune, October 2022
U.S. Senator from Florida: A voter’s guide to the 2022 general election, Tallahassee Democrat, October 2022
Workhorses, not show horses: Five ways to promote effective lawmaking in Congress, The Conversation, August 2022
The New York Times’s Interview With Carolyn Maloney, The New York Times, August 2022
Research: Congressional town halls signal and support effective lawmaking, The Hill, August 2022
Experienced staff promote effective lawmaking, The Hill, June 2021
Congress’ most effective lawmakers aren’t generally its household names, USA Today, April 2021
Committee chairs continue their lawmaking decline, The Hill, March 2021
Focus on cabinet nominees’ effectiveness and expertise, not just ideology, The Hill, December 2020
Your Health is on the Ballot: Why You Should Vote for Science in the 2020 Presidential Election. Prevention and Yahoo!, October 2020
Members of Congress are specializing less often. That makes them less effective., LegBranch.org, September 2020
Members of Congress are specializing less often. That makes them less effective., The Washington Post, September 2020
Coronavirus policies spread quickly across the U.S. Are cities and states learning – or just copying?, The Washington Post, April 2020
Productive Politicians Fare Better in Primaries, WVTF, March 2020
Elizabeth Warren Says She’s ‘a Capitalist to Her Bones’ and Positions Herself as FDR’s Heir, Newsweek, January 2020
Rep. Lauren Underwood defying legislative expectations for a freshman, Courier, November 2019
Memo: Staff recruitment, retention, compensation and benefits; and chair term limits, LegBranch.org, October 2019
Congress is back in town. Here’s why lawmakers will struggle to get much done., The Washington Post, September 2019
What Ohio’s Lawmakers Have Gotten Done This Year, Spectrum News 1, September 2019
Outside or Insider? How Bernie Sanders Learned to Walk the Line, The New York Times, July 2019
Rankings: Most effective members of the 115th Congress, Futurity, April 2019
Highlights from the new 115th Congress legislative effectiveness scores, LegBranch.org, March 2019
How the record number of female lawmakers will – and won’t – change Congress, The Washington Post, January 2019
Senators used to excel at lawmaking. Now, not so much. Here’s what needs to change, The Washington Post, July 2017
How term limits for committee chairs make Congress less effective, The Washington Post, February 2017
Does Bipartisanship even work in today’s polarized Congress? Yes, The Washington Post, February 2017
Women’s Issues Won’t Pass, US News & World Report, January 2017
Women Actually Do Govern Differently, The New York Times, December 2016
Wiseman discussing the Legislative Effectiveness Project at the University of Chicago, Radio Harris, June 2015
John Sides discussing the Legislative Effectiveness Project and female legislators in Congress, The Washington Post, April 2015
Shauna Shames discussing the Legislative Effectiveness Project and female candidate recruitment, The Washington Post, March 2015
Volden and Wiseman on the 5 habits of highly effective legislators, The Washington Post, February 2015
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) on being the most effective legislators in the Georgia delegation, Huffington Post, November 2014
Volden discussing the Legislative Effectiveness Project and the 2014 elections, WVTF, November 2014
On the accessibility of Legislative Effectiveness Scores, Nashville Business Journal, November 2014
Female effectiveness in Congress, The Washington Times, November 2014
Brief that describes the Legislative Effectiveness Project and highlights key findings, Scholars Strategy Network, November 2014
The Legislative Effectiveness Project and understanding the determinants of gridlock, CNN, June 2014
Volden on female legislators, NPR, June 2014
Danielle Thomsen on the Legislative Effectiveness Project and gridlock, The Washington Post, January 2014
Female legislators and effectiveness, LSE, October 2013






