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Congressional staff and capacity building

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  • Casey Burgat: Potential non-salary staffing reforms. April 16, 2019.
  • Casey Burgat and Ryan Dukeman: Who’s on the Hill? Staffing and human capital in Congress’s legislative committees. March 2019.
  • Molly E. Reynolds, “Reforming Congress: Historical trends in congressional staffing,” March 28, 2019.
  • Michele Swers: Enhancing expertise and diversity in committees and staffing. March 28, 2019.
  • Tracy Sulkin: Congressional capacity and reform: The role of staff. April 3, 2019.
  • Philip Wallach: Options for increasing congressional capacity on complex regulatory matters. April 11, 2019.
  • Maya Kornberg: Create a Professional Advisory Council for committees, remove cameras from hearings (at least some of them), reform committee jurisdictions. April 17, 2019.
  • Congressional Management Foundation: State of the Congress: Staff Perspectives on Institutional Capacity in the House and Senate. August 8, 2017.
  • Kevin Kosar, “Video: History of congressional staffing,” LegBranch. September 5, 2018.
  • Staff Up Congress: Best Practices for Fostering a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace in Congress. December 2018.
  • Staff Up Congress: Inclusion Means Success: Why every Congressional office should cultivate staff diversity. December 2018.
  • Pay Our Interns: House Congressional Summer Paid Internship Guidelines. March 2019.
  • Casey Burgat and Ryan Dukeman, R Street Institute: Human capital and institutional decline in congressional appropriations committees. December 17, 2018.
  • Coalition: Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives on Congressional Capacity from the New America Foundation, R Street Institute, Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, and Campaign Legal Center. March 19, 2016.
  • Kevin R. Kosar, Lee Drutman, Paul Glastris, Yuval Levin, Jonathan Rauch, and Molly Reynolds: Restoring Congress as the First Branch. January 2016.
  • Kevin R. Kosar: How to Strengthen Congress. August 2015.

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