Today was Congress’ first day back since Easter recess. We had a new intern start today, which was exciting, but it was overshadowed by the fact that I got to take a bill to the floor.
Mr. Meadows was co-sponsoring a bill with Mark Sanford, so I got to take it to the Rayburn office building to get Mr. Sanford’s signature. After that, the new intern and I delivered it to the house floor through the coat room, as tradition requires.
This was another instance in which I felt I needed to be wearing a neon sign announcing “I’m seventeen and have no qualifications or degrees, and you really shouldn’t take me seriously.”
I also got to write up the notes that Mr. Meadows will take into a hearing on the famine in Sudan tomorrow. I consolidated a 12 page memo into a one-page briefing–no easy task, especially when each paragraph you omit further describes the suffering of the Sudanese people.
It was a good day.
This is incredible! I can imagine it would be super scary though and the sign makes sense. Do you know how the tradition for going through the coat room started?