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In a result that should surprise no one, Donald Trump was the most-tweeted GOP candidate by members of Congress and their staff during last night's debate. Yesterday's three-hour debate featured 11 candidates, with former HP CEO Carly Fiorina joining the ten candidates from Fox News' opening debate last month.

Members and staffers sent out nearly 2,000 tweets using the hashtags #GOPDebate and #CNNDebate last night, and while Trump received by far the most attention, Fiorina and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) were also highly discussed. The candidates, in order of Twitter mentions were:

1. Donald Trump: 303

2. Marco Rubio: 199

3. Carly Fiorina: 198

4. Jeb Bush: 128

5. Chris Christie: 64

6. Ted Cruz: 61

7. John Kasich: 58

8. Scott Walker: 49

8. Ben Carson: 49

10. Mike Huckabee: 40

11. Rand Paul: 32

CNN's second-tier debate, which aired just before the primetime one, also had a candidate who clearly dominated Twitter mentions. While the first debate only featured four candidates, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) received nearly as many mentions as the most-discussed candidates from the top-tier debate. The number of mentions from the four other candidates were:

1. Lindsey Graham: 155

2. Bobby Jindal: 24

3. Rick Santorum: 15

4. George Pataki: 10

Some top Hill tweets were:

Robbie Myers, digital director, Senate Republican Conference Committee

If you don't have it now, whatever it is, whatever it may be ... you will have it when @realDonaldTrump is president. #GOPDebate #CNNDebate

James Detlef Carstensen, chief of staff, Rep. David Young (R-Iowa)

Four more hours! Four more hours! #GOPDebate #CNNDebate

Danielle J. Branz, constituent liaison/special assistant, Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Mich.)

Dear CNN: I'd like to talk about jobs and the economy before midnight, please. Genuinely, Me #GOPDebate

Tara K. DiJulio, communications director, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.)

This debate is so long that I think it may be 2016 when it wraps. #GOPDebate

Sam McCullough, communications director, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.)

JUDICIAL NOMINATION ARMCHAIR QUARTERBACKING WINS ELECTIONS BABY #GOPDebate

Lindsay M. Jancek, communications director, Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.)

Trump vs Jeb and the jabs back and forth are making this #GOPDebate comical #thatface  

Emily J. Goff, transportation policy adviser, House Budget Committee

So many mentions of the word "I." Didn't 7th grade English teachers talk about varying sentence structures? #GOPDebate

Kristin Lynch, communications director, Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.)

Seriously guys...where did Scott Walker go? And who slipped ambien in Ben Carson's coffee? #GOPDebate

Shane T. Smith, legislative correspondent, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.)

If the presidential thing doesn't work out for Ben Carson he should go into voice overs for audio books. #CNNDebate #RepublicanDebate

Kristina R. Baum, press secretary, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

What's clear is that stage is hot & sweaty. Get these folks some fans, err something! #CNNDebate

Naysa K. Woomer, scheduler/office manager, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.)

@realDonaldTrump are you sunburned or does @CarlyFiorina have an affect on you #GOPDebate

Jose L. Lopez, district staff assistant, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas)

Im actually amazed by @CarlyFiorina debate performance. Both she & @JebBush are the only ones that havent yelled #CNNDebate #KeepitTogether

Jillian F. Neville, digital media director, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.)

Second-tier debate: Trump, Trump, Trump, Reagan, Trump, Trump, Reagan, *Graham setting something on fire*, Trump. #CNNDebate

An agricultural credit bank has harvested some fresh talent from Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) to manage their government relations.

Lauren Sturgeon left her role as a professional staff member for Inhofe on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in August to join CoBank ACB, a bank that is part of the Farm Credit System. This move will be her second transition from Congress to the private sector after she left the House to become the director of external affairs at the Oklahoma Water Resources Board in 2013. She returned to D.C. in January 2015 to take the EPW position.

Sturgeon has been covering agricultural issues for some time. While at the House, she worked as a legislative assistant under Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) on the Agricultural Committee for nearly three years.

The Petroleum Marketers Association of America has tapped the office of former Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) to extract their new director of government relations.

Bradley Norman served as Chambliss' legislative correspondent until the senator left office in January. He first joined Chambliss in 2009 during a short stint as an intern but returned to the office full time in 2012 as a staff assistant. After holding the position for a year and a half, he was promoted to his most recent role where he covered financial and budgetary issues for the office.

The PMAA, an organization representing the interests of a variety of downstream players in the oil industry, brought Norman aboard last month.  

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has gone millennial, picking a 24-year-old as his new chief of staff.

Young top staffers are nothing new to Capitol Hill, but King's latest pick is still an outlier. In becoming chief of staff, Sarah Stevens becomes probably the youngest top staffer in Congress. She started her Hill career with King in 2012 and rose quickly from press assistant to press secretary to communications director to deputy chief of staff over the next three years.

Prior to joining King's staff, Stevens worked as an intern at the Heritage Foundation and received her bachelor's degree in 2012 from Liberty University.

Stevens is married to another King staffer. Her husband, Chris Stevens, is currently executive director at the Conservative Opportunity Society, a caucus which King chairs.

Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-Pa.) has hired a constituent advocate who really knows how to get rid of pork.

Brian Subich joined Rothfus' Johnstown office this past June but was already well known to the community for his exceptional ability to chow down. Subich has been eating competitively since 2004 and was ranked No. 21 in the world in 2012. In contests he has regularly downed over 20 hot dogs within 10 minutes and set a personal best of 27 hot dogs in 2007. Subich decided to retire from the sport in October of 2014, making his last contest a chili eating competition at Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, D.C.

He has competed by eating everything from pulled pork sandwiches to cannolis and has appeared in several Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contests which are televised on ESPN every July 4th. When not hungering for competition, Subich served on the Johnstown City Council and coached football. He has also recently stated interest in running for political office as a district magistrate judge.