Last Wednesday (Jan 28th) I met with Representative Jerry Moran, 1st district, Kansas.
http://www.jerrymoran.house.gov/
It's a very large district encompassing most of the state, and the county I will likely return to after residency is on the eastern edge of this district. At the beginning of the meeting the LA said to me, "The Representative would like to come in and meet you if he has time if that's okay." I sure wasn't going to say no! We had a very good meeting and she was interested in all I had to say. We discussed rural health and prenatal care at length. Then Representative Moran came in and we chatted. We talked Kansas colleges (Rock Chalk Jayhawk!) and what a unique community Junction City is.
After chatting for a bit he asked, "Can I take a picture with you?" Again, I sure wasn't going to say no!
I piped up, "I have my camera as well, do you mind if we take two?" Of course he didn't but I then realized that my camera had turned on in my bag (on video of all things) and my batteries were dead. So I had to email his office to send me the photo, but there I am hanging out with the Congressman.
Afterwards, I received a tour of the Capitol by one of the Representative's staff members. I was disappointed that I did not have batteries in my camera for the tour because there are places you can go with Staff that you can't go to as general public. The Staff Assistant in the office found some batteries for me but they were rechargable and needed to be charged up. Saddened by what seemed like my last hope of getting pictures failing I was about to leave when he asked, "Hey! Why don't you just put your memory card in the office camera and take it, then when you get back you can switch the cards out." So that's how I got pictures of the Capitol. The staff member who took me on my tour was very nice and very patient as well. Especially since I sat in the House and then the Senate chambers for quite a while. It had snowed and iced so the ACOG office was closed for the day. I spent the whole afternoon touring the Capitol and watching the House debate the stimulus package. Photos are not permitted in the House and Senate Floors but I got some good pictures of other things in the Capitol.
Here is the first Supreme Court
A Photo of the Rotunda in the Capitol- did you know the Statue of Liberty could fit into the Rotunda of the Capitol?
Walking into the Rotunda...
Want to know who your representatives are? Go to ACOG--> Advocacy--> Legislative Action Center and put your zip code in the spot to the right of the green box. Or click here to take you to that page:
http://capwiz.com/acog/home/
For those of you who are not ob/gyns and want to know, go to Project Vote Smart
http://www.votesmart.org/
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