“When you think of the incentive structure [in #politics] right now to get your name out, it’s about people who want to throw rocks & create controversy… People who work & toil away to pass common sense, good, bipartisan legislation that actually helps people’s lives? That doesn’t get press.” https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/13/gary-peters-senate-map-00183541

- Senator Gary Peters, who isn’t always in the news, but scores as the most effective Senator in Congress https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2023/03/20/center-for-effective-lawmaking-identifies-most-successful-lawmakers-in-117th-congress/

Center for Effective Lawmaking identifies most successful lawmakers in 117th Congress

Reps. Gerald Connolly, D-VA, and Don Bacon, R-NE, and Sens. Gary Peters, D-MI, and John Cornyn, R-TX, top their respective lists of the most effective Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the recently completed 117th Congress (2021–23), according t…

^{Kara Furlong (Vanderbilt University)}