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Hill panic: 300-600 Senate Dem staffers would be fired in GOP win
Washington Examiner ^ | October 30, 2014 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/30/2014 9:22:53 AM PDT by Parmenio

With projections of a GOP win growing daily, nervousness in Senate committee offices has turned to panic as an army of Democratic staffers braces to be fired, replaced by a Republican majority and their aides.

The spoils of political war? Estimates are that 300-600 Democratic committee and personal staff jobs would be on the chopping block if the Republicans pull off the expected victory.

“There will be a mass exodus of Senate Democrat staff from committees,” said one insider.

And Republicans will get to hire hundreds more aides. A loss on Tuesday that keeps the Democrats in charge of the Senate will cost no GOP jobs, other than those working for retiring lawmakers.

Under a Senate deal cut by Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the funding and staff breakdown on committees is about 60 percent for the majority, and 40 percent for the minority. It had been two-thirds majority, one-third minority, but the GOP cut the deal in order to keep their minimum funding at 40 percent.

Also getting hit would be the offices of Reid and other Democratic leaders.

For Democratic staffers, the potential layoffs couldn’t come at a worse time. According to officials, some will find jobs in the Obama administration, but those openings are few and will last only two years. And Hillary Clinton’s team is already loaded up with long-time aides, leaving few policy jobs for outsiders.

"There will be nowhere in the downtown private sector to go. Maybe 10 percent can find a slot in the Obama administration. It will be ugly," said a former White House aide now working on K Street.

That's because many lobbying firms are full-up with Democrats.

And there are already a sizable number of Democratic staffers already looking for work since their bosses are retiring.

“It could be a lot of individuals. And that’s not even counting all the people looking for work now with a retirement coming up,” said a key Senate Democratic staffer.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2014midterms; bedard; capitolhill; elections; layoffs; lobbyists; senateraces
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To: Parmenio

I will search in vain for the tear-jerker stories from 2006 when Republicans lost Congressional majorities.


61 posted on 10/30/2014 9:42:55 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Parmenio
Paul Bedard knows something about this story, too. From early, hard-won experience. I have a feeling there's some schadenfreude motivating his decision to write this story.
62 posted on 10/30/2014 9:42:57 AM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: Parmenio

And if the GOP has any backbone, more than a dozen “Czars” that are unconstitutional at best and likely illegal.


63 posted on 10/30/2014 9:44:20 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Parmenio
If it really happens....I'll wallow in the Schadenfreude.
64 posted on 10/30/2014 9:44:23 AM PDT by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: MaxMax

They will move many of them into government jobs in the Executive Branch. If the Republicans win the White House, they will do the same thing with the political appointees that are currently in government. The Clinton’s were the first to do this in a big and systematic way. The civil service has become packed with Democrats who continue to advance their agenda even when Republicans are in charge.


65 posted on 10/30/2014 9:44:47 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: Blood of Tyrants

You are correct. Being a Democrat means never having to go out and look for a real job.


66 posted on 10/30/2014 9:44:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MrB
We need a chief executive that has the balls to fire every single executive branch bureaucrat and ban them from future hire in the branch.

Do you really want every executive branch employee to be a political appointee, and know that his job depends on the reelection of the president and party who appointed him?

67 posted on 10/30/2014 9:44:47 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Parmenio

Women & minorities impacted most...


68 posted on 10/30/2014 9:45:10 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Parmenio

Gee, where is the crying towel?


69 posted on 10/30/2014 9:45:29 AM PDT by lesko
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To: sphinx
Do you really want every executive branch employee to be a political appointee, and know that his job depends on the reelection of the president and party who appointed him?

Despite our best efforts, we appear to be in that situation now. (see: Lois Lerner)


70 posted on 10/30/2014 9:45:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Parmenio

What’s their problem? They will probably be fired on one day, and then re-hired the following day by the new GOP(e) lawmaker.


71 posted on 10/30/2014 9:45:47 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Parmenio

“WOMEN, MINORITIES TO SUFFER MOST”


72 posted on 10/30/2014 9:45:51 AM PDT by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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To: SueRae

“I’ve got crying towels for sale...”

Do you think there will be any suicides?


73 posted on 10/30/2014 9:45:52 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Parmenio

What waste. That many people are needed to support Democrat members? Paid for by our taxes?


74 posted on 10/30/2014 9:46:34 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: GOPJ

I saw this online- on blog- do not remember which- off free republic earlier today.

Yes most important to vote this round as is every election.


75 posted on 10/30/2014 9:46:36 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: C210N

That’s not how it works.


76 posted on 10/30/2014 9:47:14 AM PDT by Parmenio
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To: Parmenio

Democratic House staffers did just fine after 2010, as did Republican staffers in 2006. Senior ones go to lobby shops, private equity shops, think tanks, visiting professorships at policy schools, and investment banks. Junior ones go to independent expenditure groups, law school, business school, “back home” to start their own political careers, etc.


77 posted on 10/30/2014 9:47:18 AM PDT by only1percent
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To: Parmenio
The good thing is that they can get the “affordable” healthcare that they championed!

/sarc

78 posted on 10/30/2014 9:47:49 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: combat_boots

That many people are needed to support Democrat members? Paid for by our taxes?

You honestly did not think they would pay for staffers out of their own pockets.

With these demons it is always OPM.


79 posted on 10/30/2014 9:48:51 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Ann Archy

Now you are talking!


80 posted on 10/30/2014 9:49:12 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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