April 14, 2010

Today, I worked my second day at Congressman John Tierney's (D-MA) local office. I worked from 11:00 AM until 6:00 PM. I had two AP classes in the morning.


I had one new assignment today. One of the people working there had me order, both chronologically and alphabetically, all of the letters of support for various things that Congressman Tierney had signed since approximately 1998. There were, I estimate, about 150 of these personal letters, and this took me about two hours. While I am not allowed to discuss the specifics of what I was filing, I believe I am allowed to say that they varied from letters of recommendation to letters simply supporting the allocation of funds to local public works projects.


I then finished the job that I was doing last week. Some of the cases that I was originally filing were from years before 2008, so I had to add them to the computer list (with the first and last names, issue, and case closed), and then put them in a box alphabetically and file them in the basement. There were dozens of boxes from issues going all the way back to 2002 downstairs, which amazes me. They said they can't keep them in their computer database because, since they represent a political figure, they get a lot of spam and things that shut down their networks.


That's about all I did today, it was generally boring, but I did go get lunch with the District Director and was told I'll be hopefully going out with the Congressman soon.