Video 00:15 Background03:10 Lets talk about the research end of things, can you talk about what you are interested in when it comes to Congress and political science work?10:13 What kind of things did you learn about the staffers?13:22 What about the turnover on the committee side? What was your perspective on the committee data?18:24 What about on the members side? What is the breakdown between the staff? Are the legislative more stable?20:09 Talk about the “good” or “bad” staff. Can you talk about your perspective on the good or bad? Does it change with experience?24:46 Talk about the experience staff, when you think about good and bad for a staff at that level, in your experience is it mostly good or are there red flags that could be an issue?28:34 Given what you know about staff, if you could be in charge of the whole Congress staff, what would you change?35:22 The overarching question is, knowing that you cannot legislate behavior. How do you get people to see that investing in legislature is important?39:13 Minority party participation and majority party legislation45:37 Legislation that passes without majority support and minority involvement, what are your thoughts?49:01 What are your thoughts on different incentives, how they’re playing out and how they can be used?53:46 Any thoughts on how to adjust this incentive landscape?54:17 [Lightning Round]54:26 What do you think Congressional representation should mean?57:08 How would your ideal Congress allocate its time?58:51 How should debate, deliberation and dialogue occur or be structured in Congress?1:00:22 What fundamental institutional amendments should Congress make in the next 50 years?1:01:12 What book or article most shaped your thinking on Congressional Reform?1:02:04 What are your future plans? Share: Tweet this page Share this page on Facebook Tell your business friends on LinkedIn about this Email this page Print this page