$2 Million to House Appropriations Committee Chief of Staff Questioned

Jeffrey S. Shockey, a 40-year-old Congressional staffer, last year collected nearly $2 million in severance payments from his former employer, a lobbying firm that specializes in winning benefits from the committee he now serves. Many longtime Washingtonians are shaking their heads in disbelief over the payout's enormous size, its ad hoc method of calculation and the fact that Shockey received it while working as a senior Congressional aide.

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