Makes sense to me. Paid staff making all kinds of background decisions on what the actual officials see, hear and read, to guide the decisions of those who should be deciding for themselves. Happens all the time at the local government level(as evidenced by the spread of the Agenda 21 c*ap). Clearly happens in the Senate too, as when John McCain didn’t even know what was actually in McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform (violating the law he supposedly helped write because he didn’t know what all was in it).
This is one of the big reasons we need to reduce the size and scale of government - it will take power from the bureaucracy and give it back to the people.