Secretary/Treasurer
Professor Frances E. Lee
Department of Political Science 
10900 Euclid Avenue
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106-7109
(216) 368-5265
Email: fel@po.cwru.edu

Editor, LSS Newsletter
Professor Ronald M. Peters Jr.
Carl Albert Center 
University of Oklahoma 
Norman, OK 73019 
(405) 325-6372
Email: rpeters@ou.edu

Editor, "Extension of Remarks"
Professor Sean Q. Kelly
Department of Political Science 
Timon Hall, Room 11
Niagara University, NY 14109 
(716) 286-8092
Email: sqkelly@niagara.edu

LSS Program Chair, 2002-2003
Professor Nichol C. Rae
Dept. of Political Science
Florida International University
University Park
Miami, FL 33199
(305) 348-2270
Email: raen@fiu.edu

Member-At-Large, 2001-2003
Professor William Mishler 
Department of Political Science
Social Sciences Building, Room 315C
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0027
(520) 621-7600
Email: mishler@u.arizona.edu

Member-At-Large, 2001-2003
Professor Thomas F. Remington
Department of Political Science 
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
(404) 727-6566
Email: polstfr@emory.edu

Preceding LSS Chair
Professor John Hibbing
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 880328 
University of Nebraska 
Lincoln, NE 68588-0328 
(402) 472-3220 
Email: jhibbing@unlserve.unl.edu

Hi, folks.  Here are a few notes from my swansong summer as LSS chair.

1.  Note that the annual business meeting of the Legislative Studies Section at the upcoming APSA convention will take place at an unusual time. It is scheduled for 6:15 to 7:00 p.m. on Friday evening, August 29.  That 45 minutes might be a tight squeeze, since we expect to have reports from five prize committees, a nominating committee, and the LSS officers as well as a few other items of business.

2.  Last spring, the executive board of the LSS chose Sean Q. Kelly as new editor of the section's semiannual issues of "Extension of Remarks."  Good luck, Sean!  You will enjoy working with the very helpful people at the Carl Albert Center.

3.  Following the stint of Nicol Rae as LSS program chair for the APSA convention of 2003, Sarah Binder and Forrest Maltzman have agreed to assume that large task jointly for the convention of 2004.

Legislative Studies Section President David Mayhew has announced that the LSS Executive Board selected Professor Sean Kelly as the new editor of "Extension of Remarks."  I'm sure that many of you know Sean, but for those who might not, here is a bit of biographical information. Sean is a native of Seattle, Washington. He received his B.A. from Seattle University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado. He is a former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow (1993-1994), during which he worked for the Senate Democratic Leadership. He joined the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Niagara University after teaching for several years at East Carolina University. Sean's primary research interests are American political institutions, political parties and leadership, and public policy. His research has been published in Congress and the Presidency, Polity, other journals, and several edited books. His book, Committee Politics (co-authored with Scott Frisch) is forthcoming in the Congressional Studies Series of the University of Oklahoma Press . As the editor of that series, I look forward to working with Sean in both capacities. Sean's first issue of EOR will be uploaded to the LSS website in September.

I'm sure that I speak for all of us in thanking Bird Loomis for his long stint as EOR editor. Bird's dedication and creativity have made EOR interesting and fun to read. He has set the mark high, and I know that Sean will sustain that excellence.