Colorado employs a total of 345 legislative staff across various functions.

The measure also mandated budget cuts that will require slashing the legislative staff of about 3,000 by at least 600 people.

And the size of the legislative staffs has increased dramatically over the last two decades.

This new breed of state officials, in turn, are surrounding themselves with more professional legislative staffs.

It provides information resources for state agencies, legislators and legislative staffs.

In 1968, 10,000 people worked on legislative staffs; today, some 40,000 do.

"Now the institutional memory will be in the hands of the lobbyists and the legislative staff, when it should rest with the elected policy makers."

They also have control over committee assignments and legislative staff.

They also have the opportunity to perform research, assist legislative staff, attend committee hearings, and help answer correspondence.

But it fell apart as legislative staffs pushed on with their own work.