by jpitney | Jul 12, 2022 | Congress, Public Policy, Staff
Nan Swift at LegBranch.org: Years of short-changing the legislative branch have significantly undermined congressional capacity. But by adopting many of the recommendations made by the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, Congress can be better...
by jpitney | Jul 3, 2022 | Public Service, Staff
Annie Karni at NYT: When an alarmed Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, called the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, demanding to know why the president of the United States had suggested he was coming to the Capitol while Congress met to certify his...
by jpitney | Jan 12, 2022 | Congress, Public Service, Staff, Youth
Layla Zaidane at The Fulcrum: Millennials are sweeping into public office: From 2018 to 2020, the United States saw a 266 percent increase in young people running for Congress. In 2021, young people made history with candidates like Nadarius Clark, the youngest...
by jpitney | Jan 8, 2022 | Congress, Public Service, Staff
William Gray at LegBranch.org: In 2011, the Congressional Management Foundation surveyed more than 1,400 congressional staff and asked an open-ended question: What does working in Congress mean to you? They received more than 600 responses and the answers are just as...
by jpitney | Aug 24, 2021 | Congress, Staff
Jim Kolbe and Vic Fazio at the Arizona Daily Star: Whether as a member or a staffer, working on Capitol Hill is a public service and inevitably comes with sacrifice, including a lower salary than the private sector. However, the current Congress doesn’t just ask for...
by jpitney | Aug 13, 2021 | Congress, Staff
Katherine Tully-McManus and Heather Caygle at Politico: House staffers are abuzz with the news that the chamber is lifting a salary cap for top employees that forced high-ranking and expert aides to accept salaries below those of members, which have been frozen for...
