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The House Policy Committee is accepting applications for upcoming internships. These internships are unpaid and their start and end dates depend upon the applicant's academic schedule.
Applications: Online - PDF - Text
Deadlines:
Summer: March 1
Fall: Now Hiring
Spring: December 30
Candidates should be energetic and interested in a variety of domestic and international policy matters. Excellent writing and communications skills are required. Applicants should support the Agenda for Congress, as summarized by House Policy Committee Chairman Christopher Cox at http://policy.house.gov/html/agenda106.html. Candidates must meet the highest ethical standards, and must comply with all House rules (a summary of rules applying specifically to interns is below).
Interns will become familiar with the public policy process and the workings of Congress. Interns will help plan meetings for Members of Congress. They will research (through the Library of Congress and otherwise), draft, and edit House Policy Statements and House Policy Perspectives. Interns may also have the opportunity to assist the Committee in its public communications. Significant clerical work is required of all Policy staff and interns; such work includes photocopying, filing, distributing materials to Members of Congress and their staff, and data entry.
The House Policy Committee is the policy-making arm of the House Leadership. It serves the House by identifying emerging policy issues, engaging in policy "research and development," and sponsoring fora and publications designed to build consensus when Members disagree. The Policy Committee's members meet weekly while Congress is in session.
To download an internship application click here or write to:
Intern Coordinator
House Policy Committee
2471 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Excerpt from Highlights of House Ethics Rules (full text):
Interns, Fellows and Volunteers
- Member or House offices may accept temporary services of an unpaid intern if the intern is participating in a program that is primarily of educational benefit to the individual.
- Member or House offices may accept temporary services of a fellow in a mid-career education program while the individual receives compensation from his or her employer.
- Member or House offices may accept the temporary services of a volunteer not part of an outside program, provided the Member or office has a clearly defined program to assure that the voluntary service (1) is of significant educational benefit to the participant, and (2) does not supplant the normal and regular duties of paid employees.
- In considering use of volunteers, Members and offices should be mindful of the extent to which the individual has any connection or affiliation with an organization or industry with an interest in matters pending before Congress.
- Interns, fellows and volunteers should not be assigned duties that will result in any direct or indirect benefit to the sponsoring organization other than broadening the individual's knowledge.
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