Credit Claiming and Unorthodox Lawmaking in Congressional Press Releases

• In Event: Electoral Connection

Brief Overview

We code 13,000 Congressional press releases and validate legislative credit-claiming against bill history. Members often elide the difference between legislating via bill sponsorship and cosponsorship/amendments/authoring text in others’ bills.

Authors

• Jessica Robinson Preece, Brigham Young University-Provo

• Kesley Brooke Townsend, Brigham Young University

• Clara Wilson, Brigham Young University-Provo