From Omaha.com:

It’s probably not the pep talk the 22 new members of the Iowa House’s Republican caucus were expecting.

Still, Kraig Paulsen, the man Republicans picked Monday to be the next speaker of the House, told them that most of what they do in their new jobs will amount to nothing.

“Somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 percent of the work you do as a legislator is a complete and total waste of time,” said Paulsen, House Republican leader. “The problem is you don’t know which is the 20 percent and which is the 80 percent until it’s all over. So you’ve got to do it all.”

That’s the approach he’s taken in his four terms representing northern and western Linn County, Paulsen said last week after a hectic week of shuttling back and forth between his home in Hiawatha, his job as an attorney for trucking firm CRST International Inc. in Cedar Rapids and the State Capitol.

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