Steve Israel served the state of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives for 16 years and is currently a novelist and the Director of the new nonpartisan Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell University. But, he first got his start as a staffer for Representative Richard Ottinger. The congressman dives into what he finds are the traits of a great staffer, shares stories from his time in office, and discusses his new role at Cornell.

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