Introducing the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
It seems as if Congress has a committee for everything, even though it doesn’t accomplish all that much these days.In hearings that have unfolded during the current impeachment drama and months before it began, the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress has tackled a wide range of topics, including stopping a staff brain drain, increasing civility and collaboration, and improving the budget process.
Rep. Derek Kilmer, a Democrat from the state of Washington who chairs the modernizing committee, said his experience at consulting giant McKinsey & Co. came up in discussions before he became the panel’s chairman, though mostly he just has long expressed interest in having Congress function better. “The differential is just too high. It’s affecting policy,” Davis said, regarding the disparities in pay. The former GOP congressman now works at law and lobbying firm Holland & Knight and is part of a ReFormers Caucus at Issue One, a nonpartisan nonprofit that aims to reduce the role of big money in politics.
But she also stressed that giving raises to Hill staff hasn’t been and shouldn’t be the modernizing committee’s first order of business. “It’s pretty hard to trash somebody on the other side when you know their spouse or you know their kids,” said LaHood, who also was the Obama administration’s transportation secretary and now works for law and lobbying firm DLA Piper.
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