Word: keast
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...Academia in the 104th Congress has lost much of its traditional influence and that is to be expected from the Change in the House leadership," said John Keast, chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss), the president of the first-term Republican caucus...
...Keast said that Wicker decided to skip the Kennedy School's orientation program because of the traditional "liberal bias" present there...
...Heritage program in Baltimore was just more compelling and interesting to Rep. Wicker," said Keast...
...Keast said that conservatives like Wicker are using think tanks for advice, because universities are still perceived as the 'last bastions of liberal thought...
...with this [liberal] perception and the change to a more conservative leadership, it is not a hard jump to say that the new leadership is going to look elsewhere for expert testimony and for policy analysis," Keast said...