SUPPORT FOR HILL AIDE PAY RAISES GROWS: Interesting coalition urges congressional appropriators to give Hill staff more pay. There are 20,000 or so mostly young men and women working for senators, representatives and committees, and their labors can be grueling.

If that thought gives you a headache, think about this: Would you rather your tax dollars go to an unaccountable bureaucrat who couldn’t care less what you think, or the Hill aide whose boss has to face voters every two or six years?