The Clerk(s)

Clerks are administrative assistants to Congress. Their role is to help the state function day to day by handling community inquiries and carrying out administrative work that does not require Congress itself to deliberate on every small matter.

When an inquiry falls under an established process, the clerks follow that process and handle the matter accordingly. This allows routine issues to move forward efficiently without sending everything to a full political decision.

If no process has yet been established for a particular inquiry, the matter is forwarded to Congress for a decision. In that sense, clerks can hold substantial administrative power, but they do not replace Congress as the body that makes binding public decisions.

Their function is therefore executive and procedural rather than legislative: clerks keep the machinery moving, but they do not determine policy on their own.