{"id":744,"date":"2006-09-29T10:49:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T15:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2010-11-10T07:25:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T12:25:22","slug":"oberstar-watch-staff-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Oberstar Watch &#8211; staff salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/26\/AR2006092601277.html\">A story<\/a> in today&#8217;s DNT alerted me to a new website &#8220;legistorm&#8221; which displays the salaries of all the capital hill workers.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t exactly been astounded by the blizzard of press releases in the past month which suggest that Jim Oberstar is the only congressman passing any laws or making any appropriations. I worked for a Congressman one summer 35 years ago who had a staff half the size of Oberstar&#8217;s but who managed to crank out plenty of PR stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Apparantly this site went down the first day it appeared because so many Capital Hill staff were busy finding out how much everybody else made. Its cooled down since. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legistorm.com\/member\/Hon_James_Oberstar\/405.html\">Here&#8217;s a quarter by quarter listing of Jim&#8217;s staff and their salaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story in today&#8217;s DNT alerted me to a new website &#8220;legistorm&#8221; which displays the salaries of all the capital hill workers. I haven&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-2006","category-oberstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}