[JoanneSD]

The verdict from congressional officers is ultimately that lawmakers, as employers, have discretion over who among their staffs gets ejected, and who stays.

How silly of me I thought they worked for us...as taxpayers

[tumblindice]

This is the problem the framers pointed out in the Federalist Papers, where you have employees who set their own wages and benefits.
Compounding the problem, about half the population has figured out they can do the same thing for themselves.
Eventually the wagon creaks to a halt. (Don’t forget ‘Boxer’ the workhouse. The pigs sent him to a glue-factory ‘rest home’!)