when newt gingrich became the speaker of the house way back when in 1995, he pursued and major transformation of power away from the committees into leadership. the staff associated with leadership essentially doubled, the staff associate with the committee was cut in half, or nearly in half. i think if you have more professional staff on committees , you might have more policy continuity, more of a commitment to the committee jurisdiction. another possible reformed that at the margins might be helpful, i don't think any of these are solutions in a permanent way. just at the margins, things that might be helpful is to maybe allow committee chairs to serve multiple terms. serve longer terms. there are restrictions on how long committee chairs can serve in the senate, for example. i think maybe if you have more of a stakeholder through the committee chair, that might get congress more engaged in that committee chair would have more incentive both as an expert given his or her reputation associated with the committee jurisdiction, more of a commitment to work with the minority to get the committ