Not a single one of the Legislature’s new chairs would be broken in today because the entire building was deserted — the weather was just a little too nice to end memorial day weekend quite so soon. Luckily, Ms. DeVivo and I made the most out of the quiet halls, touring around the General Assembly. The building has a theme of red velvet and polished brass, which she noted to me when we looked into the galleries of each chamber. From there we swung by the second floor where she showed me her old office from her time as Chief-of-Staff to the Speaker of the House. In the Speaker’s suite was a nice man who took us to the floor of the house chamber and let me hop up on the podium and get a feel for the gavel with which the Speaker calls the House to order. On the way back, we met the House Principal Clerk who is in charge of maintaining all of the parliamentary procedure that the House is run on.
Everyone we met today was super cool, maybe we’ll run into them again.
Andrew L.
This is me looking tiny at the podium in the House chamber (the gavel is much bigger in person).