This was our longest day yet! We kicked it off with a Senate Health Committee hearing on a bill to ban abortions based on the results of a prenatal Down’s Syndrome test. Needless to say, with both senate questions and public speakers, the room was emotionally thick. After the hour was up and the Committee room had to be transferred finance I met up with Aryan, who was working in the office of Representative Harris from Mecklenburg county. He had been tasked with searching through the 2019 budget for nonrecurring funds that Mecklenburg could lose if the a new budget isn’t passed by July, so we sat in the lobby of the General Assembly and compiled numbers in Excel before lunch.
After lunch, I shadowed Ms. DeVivo in a more casual meeting of just lobbyists working together (mostly) on the charter school legislation and we went to the analog bill archives in the library to find Governor Cooper’s voting record on charter school legislation when he was still Senator Cooper in 1996.
Andrew L.
Here’s Aryan holding his homework.