EDITOR'S NOTE: It is with great pleasure and pride that I assume the editorship of Extension of Remarks. I have had a long association with EOR. As a graduate student in the late-1980s and early-1990s at the University of Colorado I worked with Larry Dodd, a long-time editor, on a number of issues of EOR; my first academic publication was in EOR, and I have been an avid reader over the last two decades. EOR has traditionally been a special forum for the discussion of new and emerging perspectives on legislative studies, and an appropriate venue for considering and reconsidering the landmarks of our subfield. I hope to continue this tradition in the coming years. Another tradition that I intend to maintain is creating issues around a unified theme. This format is valuable for promoting discussion, and as a teaching tool. I invite readers who have ideas for issue themes to contact me with those ideas. My most sincere thanks go to the executive council of the Legislative Studies Section for selecting me for this position. Finally, my apologies for the tardiness of this first issue; I hope readers find that it was worth the wait. --SQK

The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle After 25 Years: Editors Introduction, Sean Kelly, Niagara University

The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle at 25: A View from the Backbenches, Garry Young, George Washington University

The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle: A Giant Leap Forward, E. Scott Adler, University of Colorado, Boulder

A Few Missing Pieces from The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle, Keith Krehbiel, Stanford University

The Behavioral Foundations of Committee Power: Reflections on Ken Shepsle’s The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle at 25 years, Richard Hall, University of Michigan

Jigsaw Puzzle Redux, Kenneth Shepsle, Harvard University

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Coming in January 2004
Shaping Congressional Studies and Careers: The APSA Congressional Fellowship Program at 50
Essays by former APSA Fellows: William Connelly, Frances Lee, Jack Pitney,
Barbara Sinclair, Marilynn Thompson, Jim Thurber, and Dan Wirls