Heard On The Hill · 118th Congress
Unionize the Senate, staffers urge
Labor advocates are pushing the Senate to recognize staff unions now that House organizing efforts have stalled under Republican control.
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Labor advocates are pushing the Senate to recognize staff unions now that House organizing efforts have stalled under Republican control.
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GOP Rep. Harriet M. Hageman is interviewed Monday in the same Cannon Office Building room where the House Jan. 6th hearings took place.
This week was all about getting committees organized, removing Rep. Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs and the National Prayer Breakfast.
“My design specification was to instill anxiety among my colleagues,” said the Kentucky Republican and MIT grad, who designed the pin himself.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden attend the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.
It can be “intense,” says Aubrey Stuber, who serves in the Army National Guard while working as an aide to Democratic Rep. Chrissy Houlahan.
House Rules Chairman Tom Cole, right, and ranking member Jim McGovern appear during the panel’s hearing on Tuesday.
Rep. Sean Casten has some modest proposals. What blocks the will of the people? “The Senate, the Electoral College and the Supreme Court,” he says.
“It’s causing a lot of folks to leave the Hill because they just can’t afford to work here,” said one Senate staffer who also works at Trader Joe’s.
Photos of the week ending Jan. 27, 2023: A new senator, football trash-talking, dads and Rep. George Santos highlighted action on Capitol Hill.
Two House members focused on artificial intelligence used the app ChatGPT to write a resolution and a floor speech this week.
“We have to be smart about it,” says the freshman congressman from New Mexico, who once worked for Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich.
The 118th Congress is the most diverse in history, with a quarter of members identifying as nonwhite. But disparities persist for staff.
Architect of the Capitol J. Brett Blanton has kept his job as procedural questions swirl, months after a damning inspector general report.
“There was a lot of manual labor involved with being a press secretary back then,” says the longtime aide to Sen. Patrick Leahy.
The caucus is composed largely of members from the Great Lakes region seeking to remind their party leaders they are “not fly-over country.”
How does a national symbol go from the factory to the center of a firestorm? “The Flagmakers” documentary tries to find out.
“Obviously, me being a part of the team indicates there is not a coastal bias, right?” he says of Democratic leadership.
It's been a year since Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint. “I don’t think my views changed really much at all,” she says.