On the recordOctober 31, 2001
I think House Members would be interested in what I consider to be an egregious anomaly in this bill. Today, administrative assistants in the other body are paid, on average, $118,000. In this institution they are paid approximately $22,000 less per person. A legislative director in the other body is paid about $85,000, on average. That is about $25,000 more than we pay for similar responsibilities in the House. For a legislative assistant, the gap is about $15,000 between the pay afforded to a House staffer versus a Senate staffer. We have another provision in this bill which is going to make it even more difficult for House Members to retain our staff, because it will be much easier for the Senate to entice staffers to come to work for them, all because of a provision in this bill. There is a provision in this bill that enables the employees of the other body and CBO to begin a student loan repayment program.
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