To delegate or not to delegate: Committee staff, congressional capacity, and executive authority
Image source: POGO By Austin Bussing From repeated, thinly-veiled threats to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller to drastic tariff hikes on steel and aluminum, the administration of president Donald J. Read More
How do congressional committee staff turnover rates compare to personal staff turnover?
Congressional committees are typically thought of as bastions of policy expertise, where committed aides dive deep into the wonkery of narrow issue areas and make careers on Capitol Hill. After… Read More
Legislative staff are spending an increasing amount of time on constituent services
Image Source: Wired The now famous Indivisible guide to grassroots activism advocates mass, coordinated constituent communication with members of Congress, among other tactics. Recent research has, however, shown… Read More
Which Senate offices had the highest staff turnover in 2017?
How do the staff turnover data for Senators compare to those of their House colleagues? This week, Senate offices are placed under the 2017 turnover microscope… Read More
New interactive map reveals 2017 turnover rates for every House office
Relying on disbursement data from the House of Representatives, cleaned and verified by LegiStorm, this new LegBranch resource reveals 2017 staff turnover rates for all members in the House… Read More
Which House offices had the highest staff turnover in 2017?
Which House members churned through employees in 2017 and which retained staff at a higher rate than their colleagues? Relying on disbursement data from the House of Representatives,… Read More
Convincing evidence that congressional staff do, in fact, matter
Staff matter, yet their pay keeps going down. Source: Josh McCrain. Observers and behind-the-scenes practitioners on Capitol Hill understand and appreciate the vital role filled by staffers in… Read More
House Committee on Administration releases additional data on sexual harassment claims
Source: Jim Mone, AP By Marian Currinder The House Committee on Administration recently released additional statistics on harassment in the congressional workplace. Committee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) described the… Read More
Congress got three things right in passing the Congressional Accountability Act
Debate about how to fix the Congressional Accountability Act (P.L. 104-1) is all the rage these days. Still, Congress got at least three things right when it… Read More
Sexual harassment on the Hill: It’s time for employees to have the same legal support as legislators
A letter to congressional leadership re: sexual harassment from dozens of former Hill staff. By Kevin Mulshine Invisible to the public and most Capitol Hill staffers, robust, capable “law firms”… Read More