Archive for May 2024
HILL STAFF NEWS: Male Hill Staffers More Likely to Want Kids. Surprised?
When CNCT asked in its latest Capitol Pulse survey how important it is to have kids, significantly more of the men answered “Very Important” than did the women, 77 percent to 50 percent. The responses also included 80 percent of the Republicans saying having kids is “Very Important,” compared to 38 percent of the Democrats.…
Read MoreSpiritual Meat for Memorial Day: Three Reasons Why Christians Should Read Military History
From “Wintery Knight:” A while back, I finished a book called “Beyond The Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot’s Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front”. It’s about a World War II heavy bomber pilot who completes 35 missions, and then goes into the Soviet Union (our allies, at…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: What Mount Rushmore Teaches Us About How We Got Here
If you have never been to Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota, let me encourage you to make whatever arrangements you need in order to do son soon. It is an amazing memorial to the human ability to create masterful art in stone. Each of the four presidential faces on the mountains…
Read MoreHILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ARIANA ORNE is the new Communications Director for Rep. Paul Ruiz (D-Calif.). Before signing on with Ruiz, Ariana served as Communications Director for the Special Competitive Studies Project and she has also served as a Public Relations Analyst for the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Ariana was awarded an MA in…
Read MoreWHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Do You Really Need to go to Church?
Ask any congressional staffer at random on Capitol Hill if they went to church the previous Sunday and odds are good you will get a quizzical smile, a look of puzzlement or even a frowning exclamation of “No way, man, why would I even want to do that when there’s so many more important things…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: Six Things Jesus Claimed About Himself
What did Jesus say about Himself while He was here on Earth? Here are six key claims Jesus Christ made about Himself, claims that, if true, confirm Him as the most important person who ever lived and one that all of us must, sooner or later, come to terms with, regardless of our status, wealth,…
Read MoreHILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MEREDITH ROGERS is the new Press Secretary for Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI), coming to the Hill after a lengthy tenure at Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid LLC. Meredith received her MA from Johns Hopkins University last year in Communications and her BA in Government from the University of Virginia in 2019. Joint…
Read MoreCONSIDER THIS: Thoughts on Lasting Friendship, Jesus and ‘Making It’ on the Hill
Work on the Hill for a few years and you are all but guaranteed to develop important friendships. I don’t mean the sort of relationships that are essential to functioning effectively as a Hill aide — colleagues on your particular personal or committee staff and those on other staffs with whom you interact regularly and…
Read MoreTESTIMONIES: Atheist Aussie Teacher Just Happened to Get on ‘That’ Bus With ‘That’ Guy
Frank Frederico grew up in a Catholic family in Australia and by the time he was 16 years of age, he had concluded that Christianity was not based on historical fact but was rather a bunch of apocryphal stories, legends of dubious origin and outright lies. By the time he entered university, Frank was a…
Read MoreHILL STAFF NEWS: Majority of Congressional Aides Support Term Limits for Bosses
This will likely come as a shock to more than 500 men and women working in the nation’s capitol who have prefixes before their names of either “Sen.” or “Rep.” What they will be shocked by is the fact that the most recent informal survey of congressional staffers by CNCT found that 53 percent profess…
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