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committees can t hire new staff. let alone start launching investigates or writing bills or passing bills. we don t even know who some of the chairs are going to be of the committees and meanwhile i m told some of these new member offices, the staffers can t even login to their computers yet, of course, you have the new members who haven t been sworn in yet, no members have been sworn in yet and these poor families have been dragged to washington. kids pulled out of school and they re just sort of stuck in this wait and see moment and then perhaps most problematic if by january 13th this is not resolved, the committees can t continue to pay their staff or pay out student loan payments so there are real practical implications here and as brian fitzpatrick, a moderate republican told cnn a little bit ago, he said we have one of our three branchs of government offline right now. that is a very dangerous thing for our country so just a reminder about the practical implications of a protrac
The Opportunity
As a member of the Asia Regional Office Programme Operations team, the Humanitarian Operations Coordinator (HOC) will report to the Humanitarian Operations Assistant Manager, Asia (HOAM) and support the Humanitarian Director, Asia (HD) in managing the regional Humanitarian Preparedness and Response work in Asia, in collaboration with the Regional Director and wider regional team.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly as well as to be deployable to humanitarian responses in Asia, where appropriate.
Key Responsibilities
we need more staff, more electronics, we can t keep up. 15,000 e-mails coming in. e-mails are almost useless sometimes, and i hate to tell people that, but the hill is overwhelmed beyond comprehension. there s a lot of good people there but they are beyond overwhelmed. this is how lobbyists bills get through. they don t have the time. they say, legislate this. they say, okay. the hill is fundamentally overwhelmed by the breadth of issue and the staff, i love them, but they are quite young, quite inexperienced, grotesquely underpaid. no way for individual member offices to keep up to date. agencies don t have that excuse. one thing agencies can and should do is get out of washington and hear actual stories from real live human beings which helps to frame the issues. here s a question. so, this gets us to dodd/frank, what you just said, which was crafted intentionally with quite a bit of latitude for