Hispanic workers on Capitol Hill

“Hill opportunities for Hispanics have improved over the years, but still have a distance to go. When Hispanic Link News Service conducted the first such survey 23 years ago, the figure was less than 1 percent. Most recent data available show that Hispanics, now 14 percent of the nation’s population, held 5.7 percent of the nearly 11,000 jobs in Congress in 2004.

However, say current and former staffers, Hispanic hiring and advancement on the Hill remain hampered by history. Only a handful of Latinos have reached positions where they can significantly influence such personnel decisions, says Adrian Saenz, press secretary for Rep. Charles Gonzalez, D-Texas. Saenz is president of the Congressional Hispanic Staff Association, which has a membership of about 100.”

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