Keeping Busy ... and ...A New Bill

Today started off quite normal. There was some mail to log and some letters to edit. Two of my intern colleagues spent the day shadowing the Congressman. This is an important part of the Internship Experience and I'll be doing my 'shadow day' next week.

Health care calls continued to roll in today. Its suprising to me to hear how many different auto-calls are coming in. The first mass-campaign auto-call was from AARP, yet today there were at least two other ones as the caller IDs indicated 924 and 620 area codes, with most of the calls being Constituents.

Like other modern offices, Congressional offices are subject to technology challenges from time to time. Today our computerized mailing system went down for at least half an hour today. The server was down and wouldn't restart. A staffer had to call an off-site contractor for Tech Support. Luckily they were able to fix the server without a significant delay.

After the server was back-up in good working condition I made a trip down to the Cloak Room to deliver an additional co-sponsor to an existing Bill that Congressman Moore has sponsored, and at the same time, a new Bill that the Congressman was just about to introduce in the official record.

I also was able to spend some time off the computer today at the office. As I've previously mentioned, one of the services that the Office provides to Constituents is to help arrange for tours of the U.S. Capitol. In support of this service, I spent nearly an hour helping to finish stamping what are known as Gallery Passes for Constituents to use to view the House Chamber. It was a little strange, yet exciting, to be placing the Congressman's name on an official pass. While this may seem like a normal type of office work to some readers of this Blog, allow me to assure you, that there is a sense of respsonsibility attached to doing this work. (NOTE: The picture on this posting is of the Gallery Passes that I worked on).

Because of my small contribution to this process, in the near future someone from the 3rd District will be watching history being made in the United States House of Representatives.