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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on June 20, 2023 The proportion of House expenses that goes to staffer pay continues to increase, even as personal offices struggle to use up their official budgets. In the year's first quarter, 82% of all personal-offices expenses went to staffer pay, according to a LegiStorm analysis. Staffer pay accounted for 77% and 74% of all personal-office expenses in 2022 and 2021, respectively. Still, personal offices are using a smaller and smaller proportion of their total budgets - leaving even more unused funds that could be spent on staffer pay. The average office is on track to use less than three-quarters of its 2023 budget by the end of the year. Including expenses that were reported late, offices spent an average of 89% of their budgets in 2022 and 95% in 2021. Some people and organizations who "caught our eye" last week:- Omar Ashmawy, Staff Director/Chief Counsel, House Office of Congressional Ethics (current staffer) – Uh oh!
From the driver's seat to the hot seat - Evan Schatz, Democratic Staff Director, Senate Appropriations Committee; Mike Gentile, Clerk, Senate Appropriations Committee's Labor-HHS Subcommittee; Betsy McDonnell, Republican Staff Director, Senate Appropriations Committee; Lindsey Seidman, Clerk, Senate Appropriations Committee's Labor-HHS Subcommittee; Anne Marie Chotvacs, Republican Staff Director/Clerk, House Appropriations Committee; Susan Avcin, Republican Staff Director/Clerk, House Appropriations Committee's Labor-HHS Subcommittee; Chris Bigelow, Democratic Staff Director, House Appropriations Committee; and Stephen Steigleder, Democratic Staff Director/Clerk, House Appropriations Committee's Labor-HHS Subcommittee (all current staffers) – Bravo!
Appropriate attention
- Gabe Bankman-Fried, Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) (former staffer) – Uh oh!
House of cards
Hill Hires - Tommy Wolfe, Congressional Labor Caucus, Executive Director
- Iris Hinh, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Education Policy Adviser
- Cara Camacho, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), Chief of Staff
- Sascha Glaeser, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Foreign Policy Legislative Assistant
Hill Departures - Sally Chen, formerly Senior Member Services Adviser to New Democrat Coalition
(now Legislative Liaison at the White House Office of Legislative Affairs) - Shalini Avasarala, formerly Press Secretary to Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA)
(now Manager of Client Experience and Media Relations at Weber Shandwick) - Laura Hernandez-Smith, formerly Communications Director to Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
(now Account Director at ROKK Solutions)
Hill Moves and Promotions - Christ-Shamma Matalbert, now Communications Director for Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA)
(formerly Press Secretary to Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI))
LegiBells June 10: AnnMarie Graham, Communications Director to Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), married Zach Barnes, Legislative Director to Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
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