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Do you find yourself constantly reacting to other offices' agendas? Do your staff find it difficult to focus their energy to achieve significant accomplishments? Or does your boss keep adding priorities and goals, leaving your team scrambling to keep up, or pose questions about their legacy that leave you quaking in your boots? If so, this webinar on December 14 is for you!

For many House and Senate offices, personal contacts with constituents became significantly more important during the pandemic for understanding those they represent. Social media also became more important for understanding constituents and for communicating out to them. Advocacy campaigns, on the other hand, mostly maintained or lost importance during COVID-19.

This webinar is designed for all those associated with setting up and running a freshman office in the House or Senate: Member, Senator, staffer, spouse, partner – even kids. It is based on the CMF-SHRM report, Life in Congress: The Member Perspective, as well as CMF's signature publication, Setting Course. Join us for this program on December 16, which will feature two Members of Congress who will help prepare you for the best rollercoaster of your life!

CMF is looking for a motivated, professional, intellectually curious junior or senior undergraduate student for a virtual internship this coming spring semester.

Today, the Congressional Management Foundation features a blog post written by POPVOX intern Jennifer Graciano, as she reflects on what the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress' recent recommendations mean to her personally and professionally.

Today, the Congressional Management Foundation features a blog post written by POPVOX intern Jennifer Graciano, as she reflects on what the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress' recent recommendations mean to her personally and professionally.

Since the onset of COVID-19, Americans have been reaching out to their elected representatives like never before, and Congress has stepped up to the task. Senior staffers in the House and Senate indicate their offices have been receiving more constituent communications, and they're having more substantive interactions with constituents than they did prior to the pandemic.