Abstract

Capitol Hill used to be referred to as last plantation.1 For the purposes of this symposium, however, I believe that it is more useful to think of Capitol Hill not in terms of the antebellum South but rather in terms of medieval Europe. Congress consists of a series of fiefdoms. To understand any particular lawyer's role in Congress, it is important to know which fiefdom the lawyer is part of, and who is its head.2 This essay is an attempt to sketch out in a preliminary way the work of several different types of legislative lawyers.3 It suggests that the role of lawyers

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