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To: koan who wrote (392140)	12/18/2018 9:27:27 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540864

Really, Koan? Guess what--I worked as an intern in Congress way back in the summer of 1968 and guess what I got paid? Zero. And guess what, I would do it again as a young person. It was a great experience for a summer. Guess what many people coming out of college get paid as interns in the private sector as well as the public sector. Many staffers work for nothing? I find that part hard to believe. E.g. her "outing" the fact the interns and many staffers are working for nothing. That is crazy, this is the US congress. Why would we have people working there for nothing? And why did no one else bring this up before? And she is going to pay them. I'll bet they change the rules now and everyone will be paid for their work, as they should be. That will be a feather in her cap. She isn't "outing" anything, except for uninformed people like her and, apparently, you who don't know how things work but scream at every imagined wrong in the world without investigating further. Which isn't to say that everything is honky dory in Congress. Here for example is an article from last March talking about unpaid internships in Congress. But it doesn't highlight the fact that they are unpaid. It talks about NDAs. Exclusive: Congress requires many unpaid interns to sign nondisclosure agreements What happens in Congress stays in Congress. By Rachel Wolfe @rachelbwolfe rachel.wolfe@vox.com Mar 5, 2018, 2:00am PST vox.com

To: koan who wrote (392140)	12/18/2018 11:22:45 AM
From: NAG1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540864

koan, I don't have a passion for her and I see her weaknesses. What I have is respect for her. She is only just 29 years old and yet is thinking better than most of the people in congress. I see her as a needed "gadfly" at this point and as she matures a powerful force for humanity. I have no problem with that. I think her perspective is needed in a Congress where many have forgotten where they have come from. I think that her life experience allows her to call out what she sees as inequities in the system. Again, she needs to be very careful about what her image is out there. She can be typecast by the media as the crazy liberal socialist democrat and then no one will listen to her and the Republicans can lampoon her to score political points or she can become the voice of the common man. Her choice. The internship thing is very interesting. It can be an important part of work experience but I can see where it can be something that is limited to those that can afford it, which wouldn't be right, especially on capital hill. She can work to get that changed. But she needs to do it in a manner that shows her and her reasons in a positive light, not where she is being put on the defensive about it. Let her make the changes in her office/district and then talk to the other legislators to see if they would be willing to put a position or two from unpaid intern to paid staff member. I hope she gets a good chief of her staff who will allow her to pursue the things she wants to do but will keep her on the right side of the media.