Originally Posted By: Kanektok Kid
Senate Republicans "lost roughly 20 percent of their ranks in the 2008 elections," but insisted on maintaining the same level of staffing. In the organizing resolution adopted this year, Dem allowed the reps to maintain the same level of staffing, regardless of their losses.

Which increased the congressional operation budget by 10%. Evidently, doing less with more for an additional cost doesn't matter to the repubs now.

Fiscal Conservative has become an oxymoron in the republican party.
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Tent makers for Christie, 2016.