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Sheila Jackson Lee: Worst boss in Congress?

by theGrio | June 20, 2011 at 3:14 PM
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From Huffington Post:

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has one of the highest staff turnover rates in Congress, having gone through 11 chiefs of staff in the past 11 years, according to an analysis by the Houston Chronicle.

The analysis showed that the chiefs of staff served less than a year on average. The average length of stay for a chief of staff in all U.S. House offices is 6.7 years, according to the Sunlight Foundation.

Jackson Lee regularly appears on Washingtonian magazine’s list of the “Best and Worst of Congress” as the “meanest” member of House of Representatives.

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