Advocacy for Hill Staff

Why Advocacy on Behalf of Congressional Aides?

Simply put, because the approximately 12,000 mostly young men and women who work on “the Hill” for individual senators and representatives and for congressional committees too often are among the most influential, but least appreciated people in the nation’s capital.

Elected leaders get the headlines and rightfully so, but they can’t do their jobs of representing constituents back home without hard-working, highly motivated and skilled staff members backing them up in a thousand ways every day.

My early years in Washington, D.C. were spent working on the Hill as a press secretary and then a chief of staff on the House side, followed by a couple of years as a communications director on the Senate side.

So I know what it’s like putting in the long hours, having to make financial ends meet on a low salary, gathering and prioritizing vital information for “the boss,” offering relevant and timely advice, and taking care of the hundreds of other aspects of being a Hill staffer.

I also served a couple of political appointments in the executive branch and I’ve since covered government and national politics as an investigative editor and reporter for more than three decades.

But I always come back to the Hill because that is where I find the people for whom I have the utmost respect and admiration, the ones who work their tails off every day. That’s why HillFaith has four apologetic and service purposes:

To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with Hill staffers, to provide “been there” mentoring and counseling, to shine a light to others about the many challenges they face every day, to share the factual evidence of the vital role of Christian faith for many of the Founding generation of American leaders.

So, in addition to the “Office Hours” mentoring and counseling, HillFaith features three main sorts of content, including, first, a rich, fact-driven, and personalized menu of Christian apologetics that many Hill readers have never experienced, second, news and analyses on issues like staff salaries, working conditions, who’s moving up, who’s moving out, and so forth, and, third, direct quotes from well-known and obscure Founders about their Christian beliefs.

It is indeed a unique combination!