Why weren’t her employees getting overtime? Aren’t they federal employees?
Congressional staffers are, for the most part, salaried employees and are not paid overtime. Only the lowest on the totem poll, data entry, phone answering, etc. get overtime. Everyone else just sucks it up. They can keep track of their hours and claim comp time, but that pretty much puts an end to their career advancement. This is one of the reasons they bail out to K Street and the associations.