republican scott kluger testified, between 1960 and 1993 the number of lawmakers in congress has remainedexactly the same, but congressional staff has grown three times in size. dan rostenkowski on the other end of the political spectrum? he agreed. he said, i think we can do with less staff. against this backlash, this backlash against staff and was also part of a larger revolt against the so-called congressional establishment. the image in the early 1990's was of aged, fatcat chairmen, locked into unseemly iron triangles with agencies and industries they were supposed to be regulating, and of rampant legislative corruption. it was one thing after another. republicans, particularly in the house, used this congressional corruption issue to argue congress needed to clean house and quit living high on the hog. thus it was that legislators began doing things like voting against pay increases for themselves, voting against pay increases for staff, and telling the public they were not going to spend all the money they had been allotted to spend on staff, and instead return some of it to the tr