In the past few weeks, Democratic and Republican campaigns have increased their staffs in anticipation of the 2014 cycle. The congressional campaign hiring spree includes:

Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, D-Hawaii, hired John Salsbury as her new campaign manager. Hanabusa is running in the Senate primary against appointed Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz. Salsbury most recently worked for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, where led labor efforts to support Hanabusa’s House campaign.

DNC Committeewoman Erin Bilbray, who is challenging Republican Rep. Joe Heck in Nevada’s 3rd District, hired Bradley Mayer as her campaign manager. She also brought on Mark Mellman as her pollster, Ann Liston as her media consultant and Achim Bergmann as her direct mail consultant. Rhonda Foxx will serve as her finance director.

Montana Lt. Gov. John Walsh, who is running in the open-seat race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, hired Dan Kully and Brandon Hall of Kully Hall as media consultants. Andrew Maxfield of Harstad Strategic Research will serve as Walsh’s pollster, Michelle Mayorga will serve as his campaign manager, and Aaron Murphy will serve as an adviser.

Chad Mathis, a Republican orthopedic surgeon and one of several candidates running to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus in Alabama’s 6th District, recently hired Phillip Stutts as his general consultant. Matt Sauvage will serve as Mathis’ campaign manager; Candace Cooksey will serve as political director; Brent Barksdale will do his media; Brett O’Donnell will do policy and messaging; John Diez of Magellen Strategies will do polling; Cory Adair will serve on the digital web team; and Brian Jodice will do digital strategy.