August 11, 2011
Well my reign in Washington has ended. I am back in Stanley N.Y. working at the family business and waiting for Cornell to inevitably resume. The positive is that I seem to have brought the rain back to NY, which I can see we needed badly since my lawn is brown. In returning, I realize [...]
July 26, 2011
Just went to a interesting briefing on the corn genome and the future of corn research. Mostly it reinforced my beliefs that the future of the worlds fuel supply will have to be from a constantly developing agriculture. We will have to change adapt to keep up with yield needs and the needs of a [...]
July 26, 2011
The debt crisis everyone one is talking about it. In reality it will affect us all drastically in some way as students and as future agricultural leaders. Being behind the scenes while all this is going down is exciting and confusing. You see there are two sides of the debate one saying we need to [...]
July 26, 2011
Working in a congressional office is an interesting experience and coming down to the last week here, I look back on my days in the office. I started working the day after Memorial Day and was put into an interesting situation from the start helping do everything I could in the office from taking constituent [...]
July 22, 2011
Since ethanol was invented, it has taken up a good portion of the renewable resources spotlight and created a movement of people backing it from environmentalists, to corn farmers, to the auto industry. In reality the ethanol industry has no “legs” to stand on, so to speak. The current industry relies on government programs to [...]
July 5, 2011
Another week has gone by. This last week was a recess week for Congress meaning that we are not in session giving everyone time back with their family and districts. That being said, last week was one of the busiest of the year for Washington visitors. Tourists filled the Capitol on vacation for the Independence [...]
July 5, 2011
Ag Appropriations has past as well as the Weiner scandal. It was a interesting time filled with a lot of hussle to research amendments presented on the floor and a lot of phone calls. Ag Appropriations is when Congress decides what the spending allotment for agriculture will be in the coming year. It deals with [...]
July 5, 2011
So far I’ve met an impressive list of D.C. movers and shakers: John Boehner (Speaker of the House), Michelle Bachman (presidential candidate), Don Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, John Ashcroft, and Ron Paul. It’s been great working in a place that can shock you at every turn and where there is never a dull moment!
June 14, 2011
My second week in D.C. went great, moving up in the chain and starting to take on some serious challenges and tasks in the office. Seeing some weakness and holes in the office structure for constituent support, I was able to take control after being left as the only intern in the office to really [...]
May 31, 2011
First weekend in D.C. went great. Now on to the first day of work. The first day you never know how things will go, but thankfully it was great. I never had time to think if I enjoyed it or not spent my whole day bustling through the Capitol and learning all the little technical [...]