Learning the Legislative Process

Receiving the 2001–02 Congressional Science Fellowship—sponsored by the IFT Foundation and administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)—gave me the opportunity to learn first-hand the federal legislative and oversight processes by working in the office of a Congressional committee.

I thought that the past Congressional Fellows were kidding when they jokingly referred to the AAAS orientation as “boot camp.” Now I understand that they were referring to the rigorous…