"The reduction in Head Start funding is necessary and entirely appropriate," said Joe Kasper, the policy director for Representative Duncan Hunter of California, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education.
Mandel gave campaign political director Joe Aquilino a $90,000-a-year post as deputy legal counsel and director of regional representatives, while Mandel campaign tracker Jared Borg received a $62,000-a-year post as Mandel's deputy director of regional representatives.
After the talk, I signed books and chatted with Rep. Long's Deputy Chief of Staff, Curtis Trent, as well as with several other staffers including Andrew Shaw, Legislative Director for Representative Scott Garrett of New Jersey, and Kristine Michalson, Legislative Aide for Representative Doug Lamborn of Colorado.
Here is an exchange between Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, and Brad Dayspring, the communications director for Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the majority leader in the House.
Sarah Pompei, most recently the communications director for Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House majority whip, will become the deputy communications director for regional press.
Feelings ran so high on the House floor on Saturday morning that there was a brief altercation between Representative Joseph Crowley, a Democrat from New York City, and Chris Vieson, the floor director for Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the majority leader.
Elizabeth Lauten, communications director for Representative Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, wrote in a post that Malia, 16, and Sasha, 13, should have shown more "class" at Wednesday's annual White House turkey pardoning ceremony.
Lauten resigned from her job as the communications director for Representative Stephen Fincher, of Tennessee, after learning that many people were neither amused nor inspired by an open letter to the President's daughters she posted on Facebook, on the subject of their supposedly transgressive appearance at the annual Presidential turkey pardoning.
His mother is the finance director for Representative Niki Tsongas, Democrat of Massachusetts, who is the widow of Senator Paul Tsongas.
Katherine Elsa Winkler, the chief of staff to Representative Joseph Crowley, Democrat of New York, was married Saturday to Ryan Patrick Keating, the legislative director for Representative Tim Ryan, Democrat of Ohio.
