Politico: “Lawmakers have attempted to reverse the brain drain caused by top aides leaving, raising an existing salary cap on staff, proposing increases to office budgets and examining benefits. But it’s not clear whether the promise of future pay bumps can counteract the strain of working long hours in an environment where they’ve experienced an insurrection, a five-hour standoff over a bomb threat and a vehicle attack in less than a year.”
Said one aide: “I have friends doing really valuable work, doing good for the world, and they have pretty regular hours. And they don’t think about dying at work.”
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