A typical day at the Senate

A typical day at the Senate is as follows: I arrive at 8am (more like 8:10, I swear it’s not my fault, the DASH bus always runs at strange times), and immediately go to work making sure that the Senate Coffee Shop is up and running. It’s very important of course that that coffee shop is functional, or otherwise Senate staffers would lose their mind by 10:30. I then proceed to work on a few constituent services cases. These often vary in degree of severity, with some simply asking for a pothole to be fixed or a speed sign hung up, and others asking for state aid with covering their medical bills or fighting against a corporation that has wronged them.

Following this, there is usually a lunch held on the Senate lawn hosted by one of the various lobbying and special interest groups. At 1pm, we proceed promptly to the floor for that day’s session. I serve as the Senate’s bill reader, so I sit in front of the President and control all of the senator’s mics, as well as maintain the pace of the legislation on the agenda. Following our time on floor, we then move on to the various committees of that day. These committees take up the remainder of the day, until 5pm, from which the Senate promptly wraps up.