The adventure of moving from Houston, Texas to Washington, DC, and all the shenanigans that take place!
7 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Cje95
When I moved from Texas to Washington, D.C. I knew I was in for a culture shock however I did not anticipate it being as big and bad as it has been. I knew that moving really anywhere from Texas would require me to get used to a more hands-on governm...
4 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Cje95
While spring is in the air and the weather has turned a lot warmer I cannot help but feel pretty bummed. This is the last month of my internship at the Congressional Office I have interned at in Washington, D.C.. I have learned so much and really lea...
22 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Cje95
As someone who works on Capitol Hill in the Capitol Complex, I have really become more and more aware of the overworked and stretched to the limit Capitol Hill Police are. I think as more and more news about it all comes out people will really realiz...
19 Apr 2021 1 minute read 3 comments Cje95
After asking several people from both sides of the aisle about how the Capitol is right now I received a very clear picture. What is going on and how everyone feels right now is not normal. With the trial of Derek Chauvin getting ready to go to jury...
19 Apr 2021 1 minute read 14 comments Cje95
No matter what was going on in my personal life my dog Rusty was always there for me. When my parents first got him for me I was in the middle of recovering from my latest major concussion in 2012. From the time of my memory coming back until this mo...
4 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
It has been barely a week since the outer perimeter fencing has come down yet here we are again having to talk about another attack on the Capitol Complex. While 2020 was a crap show it seems 2021 is not going to be to much better for those of us who...
2 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Cje95
Working in a congressional office has given me the ability to learn about widespread issues permeating across industries, socioeconomic classes, and geographically. It has been eye opening to say the least but I have learned so much more then I could...
1 Apr 2021 3 minute read 2 comments Cje95
After being up for way to long the unscalable fence surrounding the Capitol Complex has begun to be taken down. This fence system was 3 miles long at one point and it honestly was the biggest pain in the butt to have to navigate. In the morning going...
20 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Cje95
Last December I moved from Texas to Washington, DC to intern for the Congressman whose campaign I worked on. Initially, I was not going to move and I was going to stay in Sugar Land but over the span of a couple of weeks my roommate who was working f...
16 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
Today an email was sent out from the Acting Sergeant at Arms for Congress regarding the Capitol COmplex's security situation and the different things put in place since the riots on January 6th. The biggest development was that as of now there are no...
