Issa announces GOP staff for House government reform panel
Minority staff director job goes to Lawrence Brady, who was a senior policy adviser on the panel and staff director of the Energy and Resources subcommittee.
House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Monday announced key appointments to the panel's minority staff.
Lawrence Brady will become minority staff director. He previously served as a senior policy adviser on the panel and staff director of the Energy and Resources Subcommittee that Issa chaired during 2005-06.
John Cuaderes will be deputy staff director. He served the committee as a senior policy adviser during the last Congress and before that as staff director for the Federalism and the Census Subcommittee.
Jennifer Safavian will be chief counsel for oversight and investigations, continuing the role she has played since 2003.
Charles Phillips will become chief counsel for policy after previously serving as senior counsel. Frederick Hill will move from Issa's office as press secretary to become communications director for the subcommittee, and Kurt Bardella will become press secretary. Bardella had worked for Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.