Congressional Term Limits

[Benton]

(11-12-2016, 06:11 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: I'd suggest that "staff" rolls over frequently and often.  It's interns and grad students from law and public policy schools just starting out....after 4 years, max, they're moving on to the next thing (which in many cases is probably politics).

Now if you are talking POTUS, and cabinet and offices etc....then I'd agree that Dept of Defense, for example, is largely driven by career staffers.

But otherwise, yeah, you're voting for "experienced" Congressionals that farm out most of their work to 20-something college kids.

largely I was talking about the upper level positions. Military advisors, for example, are all mostly the same as they were following the bush house cleaning.

but you'd be surprised about the lower level individual staff. About half of congressional staffers quit in the first year. Mostly due to low pay and long hours. But ones that make it passed two years usually stay throughout their reps time
and each rep gets roughly the same budget to spend. Newly elected members of congress tend to spend it on more staff making less money. Lifers tend to spend it on fewer staff members who make much higher salaries.

http://congressional-staff.insidegov.com/

usually, the ones making the highest salaries are the one on small staffs and stay around a long time.