Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) made waves in January for stating that he'd "built [his] staff around comms rather than legislation." But as it turns out, his supposedly communications-heavy staff composition is on track with the rest of the House if the job titles mean what they say.
A quarter of Cawthorn's staff in the year's first quarter held policy-focused jobs, according to a LegiStorm analysis. Another 12 percent of his staff held communications jobs. That's roughly on track with the average makeup of a House personal office, where 28 percent of positions are in policy and 10 percent are in communications.
Another third of Cawthorn's staff worked in constituent-service positions, the same as the House average.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the only active member to hold no committee assignments, employs half the proportion of policy staffers of a typical member office. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has higher than average, with roughly a third of her staff working mainly on policy.
This data considers only full-time staffers in personal offices and excludes leadership and committee staffers, as well as any temporary staff and interns. It also excludes positions such as "director" or "associate" where the job function is not clear from the title.
