Posted on 10/24/2015 9:13:45 AM PDT by bestintxas
It's almost moving day in the offices of House Speaker John Boehner, who will leave his seat on Friday, and not just for the Ohio Republican himself, but also for the 70 or so staffers who lose their jobs when he leaves office.
"When you have people like John Boehner and Paul Ryan, the people around them are very good people," New York Republican Rep. Tom Reed, told The Hill. "They're staffers who know the place, know the business, know the policy." A source close to Boehner told The Hill that he and chief of staff Mike Sommers have been trying to find jobs for the nearly 70 people who work for the outgoing speaker, who announced his resignation last month, and some may be asked to stay on with Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who is expected to succeed Boehner.
"Obviously, I'm interested," Reed, who serves on the Ways and Means committee, said. "If we have an opportunity to fill, those are the type of people we look for."
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We Americans know that career politicians and their staff is the disease in DC.
They should ALL go back to finding jobs in the private sector (and not as lobbyists) and stop milking from the government teat.
Translation: "Do whatever Obama says. Just make sure the pork keeps coming in."
How much could 20 cartons of Marlboros weigh? No big deal. GO ALREADY!
With Ryan we have gone from bad to worse.
This drunken LOSER is going to land on his feet in some cushy Lobbyist job, or some job ‘invented’ just for him, somewhere.
Wait and see...
Adios mofos!
And therein lies the problem. VOTE THEM ALL OUT and get new staffers. The staff runs the show in Washington, folks.
I agree on Ryan. He’s in WAY over his head. WAY over.
Wonder how much ‘stuff’ Boehner will steal?
He is just as crooked as the rest of the Professionals that have made a career in Politics..
We have a rough road ahead getting the Clinton’s totally out of power, and if only they would investigate that so called fake and phony, cover up FOUNDATION...
PRAY FOR OUR NATION DAILY...
Why pray tell, does any Congressman need 70 people on his staff? IMO each should have two, the Speaker three max. Good grief. And then when you try to send a message to any of them, they only want to hear from people in their district. Their votes affect all of us. Need to send them all home and hold their sessions via satellite.
They should ALL go back to finding jobs in the private sector (and not as lobbyists) and stop milking from the government teat.
Why when they can continue to work 18 hour days making pennies. You do know the highest civilian makes $158,000 (excluding Pres, VP, and some appointees). The highest civilian makes what? 80 million at a minimum. Get it?
Oh my Gosh.....That is really horrible.
Why pray tell, does any Congressman need 70 people on his staff?
Who else is going to read the Obamacare Bill, the Immigration bill, the budget, the Bank bailout bills. You didn’t think the actual Congress people do, do you? No way. They get a one-page “Summary paper” that explains all they need to know to vote.
I hear that same line from professors all the time:
“We could make so much more in the private sector. You’re damned luck to have us ...”
Meanwhile they’re farming out most of the heavy academic lifting to their GTAs and making their real money in ... the private sector.
Just sub Interns for graduate teaching assistants. Twitch McConnell is worth what—20 million? Nice work if you can get it!
Professors, Congressmen—Orange Man: How can we miss you if you won’t go away?
Please—go make the big bucks and GTHO of our schools and government you money-grubbing phonys.
All the people that voted for him wanted him to do was do the job he was sent there to do, and that was lead the Republican House; but he was to busy kissing obuma’s butt and not listening, so we booted him out....
And if the next one doesn’t do their job, they’ll get booted out also...
People are tired of this ‘across the aisle’ kissy kissy...we sent them there to do OUR work, not the other way around!
I think it’s time to go back to something like what we did in our second grade reading class. For Congress it would go something like this. Call in camera crew from each of the alphabet networks for live transmission. Assemble all the Congressmen in the same room. Give them each a copy of the bill. Beginning with the front row, have each read one paragraph until the reading is complete. If they aren’t present for the entire reading, they can’t vote.
Remember talking to one of the staffers for our Congressman. He did explain the present procedure which often included just sharing a summary from someone else’s staff member instead of each office reading the bill. Oftentimes he said they recommended he vote against the bill - which was ignored to the point that the staffer finally left.
I know this will never happen, particularly in my few remaining years, but there is no reason why it couldn’t.
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