Today started out interestingly enough. As Mo and I were walking out the door of our hotel room at 7:28 a.m. the fire alarm sounded. We met Mark in the hall and walked the 14 floors down to the ground with other people joining us. When we got outside there was a woman with a bullhorn announcing that this was an emergency and we were to get as far from the building as possible. The busses were there, so we climbed aboard. As we were waiting to leave two fire trucks roared up with their sirens blaring. We left and I never found out what happened because when we got back this evening everything was fine. I was just glad it didn’t have 2 hours earlier because there would have been a lot of people outside in their PJ’s!
We rode to the capitol on the busses and went to the visitor’s center. Fox News filmed us walking in: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4419370/gop-congress-looking-to-shake-it-up/ ! We had a light breakfast and then we had many presentations on all kinds of procedural things from learning about ethics rules (no gifts, please) to when we get our first paycheck (2-1-11). The most interesting event was when Nancy Pelosi came to address the group. There are only 9 Democrats in our class of over 100, but we were polite and clapped. She talked about not looking back and affixing blame, bipartisanship, and following the constitution. Blah, blah, blah. Mo, Mark and I all got a good chuckle out of it. My sister Megyn wanted to know what color her pantsuit was (it was red).
We (mercifully) ended early at about 4:40, so we wandered around the capitol visitors’ center until time to go to a Pro-Life reception at the Capitol Hill Club, which is the Republican hangout right next to the Cannon Building. We stayed there for thirty minutes or so and then went to a Republican Study Committee reception a couple of blocks away in the Library of Congress, sponsored by Tom Price. The building is gorgeous with mosaics on the ceiling and beautiful architecture. We saw Tom Price and Brett Guthrie, both of whom came into the district to campaign for Mo. I also met several Congressional spouses, who are very excited about the Republican Congressional Spouses luncheon tomorrow. Afterward we took the Metro back to the hotel. We’ve been getting lots of advice on where to live – buying vs. renting, close in vs. farther out, etc. Good luck to us!
I’m bushed, but Mo is at another informal freshman class meeting. They are trying to coalesce as a group and wield some of their power as 1/3 of the majority. Hopefully they will be finished a little earlier tonight…
Still loving it, but my feet hurt.
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