Here is that list reordered by annual salary, in descending order, omitting those making $50K or less:

Becker, Brenda L -- Assistant to the Vice President for Legislative Affairs
Betfarhad, Ramsen V -- Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic Policy
Heiden, Debra A -- Executive Assistant to Vice President
McBride, Lea Anne -- Assistant to the VP for Communications and Press Secretary
Kleppe, Elizabeth W -- Director of Scheduling
Folsom, Jennifer Rose -- Director of Correspondence
Boyer, Cecelia -- Director of Correspondence
Morgan, Derrick D -- Assistant to the Vice President and Staff Secretary
Albright, Craig M -- Deputy Assistant to Vice President for Legislative Affairs (House)
Swonger, Amy Hanson -- Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for Legislative Affairs
Steen, James Eric -- Special Assistant to Vice President
McNichols, Troy L -- Assistant to the Vice President and Director of Advance
Karem, Robert S -- Special Advisor for National Security Affairs
Mayfield, Jennifer H -- Deputy Press Secretary
McGinn, Megan E -- Deputy Press Secretary
Sox, Daniel A -- Director of Information Systems, Deputy Director of Operating
Baker, Grey D -- Deputy Assistant to the Vice President and Deputy Staff Secretary
Durkin, Charles P III -- Personal Aide to the Vice President
Fishpaw, Marie K -- Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic Policy

Click the link to read the original story. Essentially, Cheney says "Screw you" to anyone who asks for a list of people working for him. These are people paid for by you and me, and his office will not tell us who they are, how many there are, or what they get paid. This is not the way things are done, and I wonder why it is being done this way.

And now that we have the list, presumably someone is working find out who these people are. What are their backgrounds? How did they come to be employees of the VP's staff? What are they doing on a daily basis? How involved are they in policy issues?

Are those salaries accurate? Full annual salaries? Nobody in his office makes $75k or more??

Did anyone else note that the pay-period is merely five months? This means that the Vice-President's Senatorial Trip Coordinator earns $39,500 a year. Considering that 99% of his trips are coordinated first and foremost by the Secret Service this seems an outrageous amount - even more so if he has an Executive branch Trip Coordinator performing parallel duties.

In light of this sort of excess, it is amazing that the Republican party is still given a free-pass to call the Democrats the big government party. 40K a year of our tax dollars to pay someone to surf Expedia for the VP. Hell, they probably don't even have to do that as I feel fairly certain that plenty of places lobby them to "put a bee in Dick's ear...after you've come and spent the week with us...comp of course."

ArthurKC, I believe these are Cheney's Senate staffers, only.

"...Are those salaries accurate? Full annual salaries? Nobody in his office makes $75k or more??../"

The Senate reports "salaries" in half year increments. Multiply all those numbers by two and you get the full year's gross salary.

FYI, the disclaimer at the bottom of the legistorm.com page mentions that extrapolating these 5-month numbers to annual salaries might not be accurate...

how was this information obtained?

Kram's note about the disclaimer pertaining to salary multiplication is indeed important but so is distinguishing that the disclaimer indicates that simple upward multiplication is more likely to underestimate annual compensation than it is to overestimate it. Which still leaves me thinking that being Vader's - err, the Veep's - Trip Coordinator wouldn't be such a bad gig.

Canuck: perhaps gov't service is becoming a "pink collar" field? I'm sure they're paid just as well s the men [koff].

Seriously, 41 people in an office that isn't his main one? How many work in the OVP and how much is it costing? What do they do? For whom? To whom?

and why is the Security Code the word 'right?'

Now that we have their names, I want to know what they're hiding. More about these people's background and histories.

I usually wouldn't jump to "tin-hat" conclusions like this, but given their record and resistance to revealing the information, there *has* to be more to the story.

Or its their usual "keeping EVERYTHING" secret to make it even harder to find anything out...

The Tutwilers were next door neighbors to the Halliburtons. Ruchard Halliburton flew King Faisal I over Iraq to sdhow him surface strata and underlying oil features, between World Wars.

Marge Tutrwiler was James Baker's Undersec. of State, the first director of Iraqi communications, and recent NYSE VP who also chaired as Dean for University of Alabama's Communication program. They're big movers in oil and telecomms. The family owns steel mills at India.

Now if you woanted to know where the 9-11 steel wreckage was scrapped at...

To any questioning whether or not this matters....

This government is the most secretive ever. The Energy Task Force created by the VP to develop an energy policy... OUR energy policy, never wanted to disclose who he talked to.

One of the greatest architects of this stupid war was Paul Wolfowitz who is promoted to head the World Bank and to create "Transparency" within that institution! Why can our government, doing OUR business be transparent?

I look forward to the day when there is a Democrat in the White House (which there will be... no amount of gerrymandering or K-Street money can stop the inevitable changes that have always occured), appointing political appointees to each office of government, using the powers taken by this President and listening to the whining then!

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