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Backstopping 101: How to Provide Technical Support to Legislators

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Backstopping 101 : A Primer on How to Provide Technical Assistance to Senators & Other Legislators First of the Series, 2017 Putli Suharni “Suh” C. Samanodi-Candao Committee Secretary Legislative Committee Support Services A Senate of the Philippines                                                                     For the new Senate staff  who have just made it to the elite circle of technical staff and backstops, welcome aboard and good luck! Remember that you are a public servant, thus, “Humility to seniors is duty, to peers is courtesy, to inferiors is nobleness.”                           - Poor Richard's Almanac                                                     All the best,                                                                            Suh Foreword Legislation, being the core of all the operations of both houses of Congress, is an indispensable y