Jeff Flake: “I would be glad to yield to anyone who can tell me that a committee staffer has a longer contract than somebody who…”

“I would be glad to yield to anyone who can tell me that a committee staffer has a longer contract than somebody who works in a personal office. It is simply not the case. So the notion that a committee staffer should be treated differently is simply wrong. The gentleman from Indiana, I think, said it best. Nobody is here arguing that we shouldn't be generous. It is that when you come here in the middle of the night the last day of session, you rarely think things out very well and this isn't thought out very well. How can you say some people, we're just going to target who gets this benefit and who doesn't? This isn't how the public expects us to conduct our business. As I mentioned before, we are already accused of having different rules for Congress than exist out there in the general public.”