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Lucian Truscott<\/a> is a sixth great grandson of Thomas and Martha Jefferson. He recently published in his newsletter blog a picture of himself with his sixth cousin, Shannon Lanier, a sixth great grandon of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. You can read the accompanying article at the link<\/a>. I also took the liberty of adding his newsletter to our blogroll (on the left). You might also enjoy an article there entitled “Court-martial Flynn’s worthless seditious ass.” I certainly did. But there are many others as well.<\/p>\n The Hill – Experienced staff promote effective lawmaking<\/a> This is the 77th anniversary of D-Day. In looking for some kind of retrospective, I discovered that there is a National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA,<\/a> which is just winding up a three-day commemoration. I don’t think anyone who reads here is close enough to Bedford to vvisit (besides the fact that it’s already 2\/3 over), but you can find more information if you click through<\/a>. And I find it gratifying that it exists.<\/p>\n Food for Thought: Yesterday was too overcast tto play with electricity, but if I can’t get it started today, I’ll rearch tonight and get a battery delivered tomorrow. Cartoon – Short Takes Lucian Truscott is a sixth great grandson of Thomas and Martha Jefferson. He recently published in his newsletter blog a picture of himself with […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYes, this is an opinion piece, but that doesn’t automatically make it fluff. And, yes, it’s a principle that most people who have ever worked at a so-called “low-level” job know intuitively: nothing that gets done is done by those at the top. Important accomplishments are never one-person jobs. It’s a point I’ve alluded to many times, most recently in connection with President Biden’s appoiontments. But it is more broadly applicable. And the authors of this are just the guys who have the facts and the statistics to prove it.
\nMembers of Congress are wrestling with the 97 bipartisan recommendations put forward last year by the newly reestablished Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. Among them are proposals to increase legislative staff pay. Supporters argue that salary increases are needed to recruit and retain the best legislative aides. Yet, the public is skeptical about spending more on Congress, which they judge as not doing a very good job.<\/span>
\nAt the Center for Effective Lawmaking, we know that with respect to congressional staff, we get what we pay for. We find that retaining experienced legislative staff is crucial to Congress doing its job better, in terms of lawmaking effectiveness.<\/span>
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