Posted on 05/28/2017 7:44:38 AM PDT by LS
Apologies for re-posting, but Jack hit on an incredible discovery that even HE did not highlight in his piece:
"Of the entire committee staff of ninety, only two junior members are registered Republican."
This is massive, and I certainly didn't know this. How many Freepers did? That Republican Congressional Committees are all run by Democrats???
Never mind the fact that this committee---I'm guessing about 16-18 people---has NINETY staffers? So now you know why the "right" questions don't get asked. The Congressmen tell their staffers, "I have a hearing with Comey on Tuesday. Prepare a list of the questions I'll be asking." Naturally, the Dem staffers ask about Russia.
What are the laws to firing Congressional Staff? Ditto for WH Staff?
Gowdy needs to fire all staff except the two. Go Gowdy!
I'm not really missing it - it goes without saying that NO Republican should have a Dem staffer. I just was thinking more about getting rid of them.
This link to Legistorm provides details on the names and titles of the staffers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, for the quarter ending Dec 31, 2016.
I counted 31 staffers with salary titles that identify as "Democratic." In contrast, NOBODY has a title with "Republican" in it.
I suspect a good sleuth can cross-reference the staffers with party affiliation and do some really good work.
Does a freshman Congress Critter have a choice? I imagine they get a roster and they pick whoever is available.
Uniparty repub leadership is totally fine with it. They are uniparty. Doesnt bother them.
The Deep State probably has a thorough dossier on all elected politicians — including fake info, if the real info is not sufficient for blackmail and scandal.
Well, considering that even the elitist Repubs are globalists - it makes all the sense in the world.
Jesus is coming, folks! Get ready . . . no other name than Jesus.
I know it is much easier to scoff . . . but just look at how the world is lining up and maybe go ahead and read something like the “Late Great Planet Earth” by Hal Lindsay. Yea, it’s outdated - but the Scripture ain’t.
I don’t know. I assume that each congressman hires his own staff, preferably at home. I would not think these staff are subject to civil service-—obviously if they were you could NEVER get rid of them.
Thanks. There is a major story here for any reporter wishing to dig a little.
I remember seeing an interview with a new congressman long ago. He complained that he had staff assigned to him.
I’ve been sick (still am) and not frequenting FR very much for a few weeks. I will think who would be the best people who may remember this.
Sooooooo much swamp to drain... I suspect one of these days we'll discover some elected Republicans REALLY are Democrats... they've scammed us for years. Nothing would surprise me.
Some time ago I saw a letter signed by the Dems who begged and pleaded for the Awan Bros to be hired. I wish I could remember where I saw it, no doubt on FR someplace. They begged for those guys to get hired, pleaded. WTH???? What was going on there? I assume, probably the Dems knew the Awan Bros were going to hack every Congress member and get dirt? Send classified stuff to Paki? I wish I knew more.
At least in some cases, new Congressmen are assigned DC staffers by party leadership. Staffers get passed around and might come with a committee assignment, for example. At least that’s how it was a decade or two ago.
This is third-hand and possibly apocryphal, but an acquaintance from a big Dem donor family with ties to a longtime senator told me that Ted Kennedy was really little more than place-holding rubber stamp for various staffers and "advisors" of the worst sort, and that he'd have signed his own commitment papers if some aide had handed them to him right before happy hour. The "hired help" had become the "boss." It seemed dismally plausible.
Mr. niteowl77
To understand this you have to know who is lining their pockets:
CRAPI-TOL HILL PLAYERS & CONTRIBUTORS
Senator John McCain: R-AZ
Net Worth including wife $121m
J P Morgan Chase – General Electric – Citi Group – Merrill Lynch – Bank of America –Price Waterhouse – American Airlines – Goldman Sachs – Raytheon – Cisco Systems – Prudential Financial – State Farm Insurance – Liberty Mutual – Saudi Arabian Government (via McCain Institute non-profit)
Senator Ted Cruz: R-TX
Net Worth $42m
Goldman Sachs – Club For Growth – Monsanto – RIDA Development – Halliburton – Koch Industries – Phillips 66 – Marathon Oil – Valero Energy – Association of Oil Pipelines – Chevron –American Society of Plastic Surgeons – Wood Forest National Bank – NORPAC – Honeywell – General Electric – Alcoa – Cummins/Allison Diesel – Cintas - Costco
Senator Orin Hatch: R-UT
Net Worth $7.4m
Eli Lilly & Co. – Blue Cross Blue Shield – Pfizer – Bear Stearns – J P Morgan Chase –Intel – Johnson & Johnson – Pharmaceutical Care Management – Bayer Corporation – Koch Industries – Marathon Oil – Exxon – Questar Corp. – Haliburton – Chesapeake Energy – Chevron Oil – Sunoco – Occidental Petroleum – Microsoft – Ernst & Young – Marriott International – Cancer Treatment Centers of America - Monsanto
Senator Mitch McConnell: R-KY
Net Worth $32.7m
Monsanto - Goldman Sachs – Citigroup Inc. – Humana – General Electric – Oppenheimer Funds – NYSE Euronext – National Venture Capital Assn. – Morgan Stanley – Edward Jones – Wells Fargo – Texas Capital Bank – Bank of America – Suntrust Banks – J P Morgan Chase –CIGNA Corp. – Blue Cross & Blue Shield –National Assoc. of Health Underwriters – Prudential Financial – Liberty Mutual Insurance – Met Life – New York Life – Altria (formerly Phillip Morris) – NRA
Senator John Cornyn: R-TX
Net Worth $?
Exxon Mobil – AT&T –Valero Energy – JP Morgan Chase – Goldman Sachs – Quantum Energy – Chevron Corporation – Morgan Stanley – Bank of New York Mellon – Marathon Oil – American Gas Association – BP – Koch Industries – Phillips 66 – ConocoPhillips – Occidental Petroleum – Tesoro Corp. – Association of Oil Pipelines – Prudential Insurance – Aflac – Cigna Corp – Metlife – Mutual of Omaha – New York Life – Blue Cross & Blue Shield – Bayer – Pfizer – Merck & Co – Brristol-Myers Squibb
Senator Charles Schumer: D-NY
Net Worth $2.4m
Goldman Sachs – Citigroup – J P Morgan Chase – Ernst & Young – Bear Stearns – Lehman Brothers – Merrill Lynch – New York Life – MetLife – American Pharmacists Association – SONY Pictures Entertainment – National Association of Broadcasters – Motion Picture Association of America – Time Warner – Walt Disney Co. – 21st Century Fox Cable – CBS – Charles Schwab – Oracle Corp – Qualcomm – Dell Inc. – Intel – Microsoft – Eastman Kodak –Lockheed Martin
Senator Dick Durbin: D-IL
Net Worth $1.7m
Monsanto - Northrup Grumman – Boeing Co. – Lockheed Martin – United Technologies – Blue Cross & Blue Shield – Northwestern Mutual Life – MetLife – New York Life – America’s Health Insurance Plans – Transamerica – Aflac – Pacific Life Insurance – Best Buy – Home Depot – Walgreen Co. – Lowe’s Companies – Gap – Target – JC Penney – CVS Pharmacy – Walmart
Senator Barbara Boxer: D-CA
Net Worth $5.3m
Emily’s List – University of California – 21st Century Fox Entertainment – Time Warner – Kaiser Permanente – Oracle Corp. – DreamWorks – Google – Union Pacific –BNSF Railway – Operating Engineers Union – Teamsters Union
Senator Patty Murray: D-WA
Net Worth $4.3m
Microsoft Corp. –Amazon – Emily’s List –Boeing – University of Washington – Blue Cross & Blue Shield – United Airlines Holdings – Citi Group – K&L Gates – Weyerhaeuser – Northwestern Mutual – Novo Nordisk – Eli Lilly & Co. – Bristol-Myers Squibb –Cubist Pharmaceuticals – Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America – Abbott Laboratories – Pfizer – Premera Blue Cross – Cigna – Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance – MetLife – Costco
Senator Patrick Leahy: D-Vt.
Net Worth $129m
Monsanto – National Assoc. of Broadcasters – Direct TV – Viacom – Time Warner – Walt Disney Co. – CBS – 21st Century Fox – SONY – Motion Picture Association of America – Oracle – Cisco – Microsoft – Intel – HP – Sprint – Cox Communications – T-Mobile – Dish Network – Lockheed Martin – Northrup Grumman – General Electric – Rockwell – Boeing – Airbus Industries – United Technologies
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi: D-CA
Net Worth $69m
American Congress of OBGYN’s – American Society of Therapeutic Radiology – American Medical Association – National Treasury Employees Union – National Association of Letter Carriers – American Federation of Teachers – American Federation of Fire Fighters – National Education Assn. – Dell – Intel – Oracle – Qualcomm – Hewlett Packard – Microsoft – Aflac – Blue Cross & Blue Shield – Pacific Life Insurance – Facebook – Yahoo – Google – Amazon – Ebay
Congressman Darrell Issa: R-CA
Net Worth $149m
Cisco – Intel – Microsoft – Hewlett Packard – Dell – Texas Instruments – Cox Cable – Time Warner – Sprint – Dish Network – Comcast – T Mobile – Toyota Motor Co. – Autozone – Enterprise Car Rental – CBS Television – Time Warner – SONY Pictures – Walt Disney Co.
TOP 25 OWNED STOCKS BY CONGRESS
General Electric Johnson & Johnson
Microsoft Chevron
Proctor & Gamble Cisco
Wells Fargo Coca-Cola
Apple Pfizer
IBM Intel
AT&T Disney
Verizon Bank of America
JPMorgan Chase Abbott Laboratories
Exxon/Mobil Berkshire Hathaway
Information recorded from:
Open Secrets.ORG (center for responsive politics)
MapLight (Revealing Money’s Influence on Politics_
Supreme Court Justice’s clerks are also far more influential than most assume.
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