Inside the Office of: Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.): Andrew Stasiowski

Andrew Stasiowski

Title: Legislative assistant

{mosads}Age: 28

Hometown: Wellesley, Mass.

Education: B.S. from the University of Nebraska

Last job: Field rep for Massachusetts statewide ballot question on wine sales in food stores

Legislative specialty: Transportation, economics and foreign affairs

Favorite bill or law: H.R. 1184, Congratulating Maryland Basketball on a great season. I am a Maryland basketball fan, but I found it hilarious how unnecessary and big of a deal this became. [Editor’s note: The resolution, which came to the floor in March, turned into a partisan battle between House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.).]

Most embarrassing moment on Capitol Hill: I got off the elevator and I was looking at my BlackBerry and, not realizing where I was going, went into the wrong office and sat down at what I thought was my desk. Fortunately nobody saw me, and I got out of there as fast as possible.

Interests outside of work: Golf, Nebraska football

Andrew Stasiowski has voluntarily expanded his workload this fall. The legislative assistant for Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) has begun a part-time graduate program at Johns Hopkins University for applied economics.

“Being in college is probably more fun,” he jokes about his nights in graduate classes, “but … I’ll probably get more out of this than I did when I was in undergrad.”

Stasiowski’s career in politics officially began in 2006 when he campaigned against his home-state Massachusetts’s ballot question on wine sales in food stores, but he started his lessons on government much earlier. His father is a lobbyist for the state’s beer wholesalers.

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