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[quote=Anonymous]Stay late even if you don't have work to do.  Just being there counts for a lot.  If your member is a policy wonk, you will work a lot because your boss wants to do things.  If your member is a fame whore, you will work a lot to prevent him/her from looking stupid because s/he has no real interest in knowing the issues.  the in the middle of the road offices are less demanding.

the biggest thing for me and why I won't work on the Hill, is that so much work goes into so much legislation that goes no where.  All this time spent drafting editing negotiating to introduce a bill that no one co-sponsors or ever gets put to debate or vote.

the only purpose is for the member to go home and say, "here look what I did I championed your cause but the "do nothing Congress" didn't do anything. I'm your friend the rest of Congress is useless, blah blah blah."

I find it too depressing to know how much of the work is ultimately meaningless and therefore I don't work on the Hill.

Also it is a lot easier to kill legislation than to pass it, so if you want to look like you are accomplishing something, just block everything.  (damn tea-partiers they figured that trick out)[/quote]

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