Congress Should Do Its Job. But the Job Members Can Do Depends on the Resources They Have.

Lee Drutman wrote for Vox's Polyarchy about the broader effects of an under-resourced legislative branch: 

All these numbers point in the same direction: Congress is not investing in itself. And the less Congress invests in itself, the more power flows elsewhere — to the executive branch, which has more and more experienced personnel; to downtown lobby shops that steal away all the most experienced congressional staff to help corporations write legislation.