Went to a Senate Committee hearing (Energy and Natural Resources) this morning to discuss four new bills concerning the Oil Spill. One was proposed by Sen. Bingaman, one by Sen. Menendez, one by Sen. Udall, and one by Sen. Brown. I didn't realize Ken Salazar would be a witness at the hearing, but he was! Exciting stuff. I learned a lot, as usual. When I got back to the office, I found out that they had been watching me on tv...ha ha. So naturally, I had to investigate. The link to the video is here: http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.LiveStream&Hearing_id=4b79b545-9cd6-2129-40f0-a5994845ef8a. You can see me on the right side kind of in and out... the best portion is around 131:15 and 133:32. I'm floating right next to Salazar's head... does that make me famous?

What else... did some work on an Excel spreadsheet, hunted down an elusive GAO report, and wrote up a memo for the hearing this morning. That's about it!

Good day on the Hill today! Went to a briefing about the future of natural gas. Basically, a research team from MIT discussed the benefits of using natural gas to supply a large portion of our energy in order to reduce overall carbon emissions. They called it a "bridge" resource...although it isn't carbon-free, it is carbon-"lite". They're hoping that the US can switch to using unconventional energy sources (like shale) until our solar/wind technology is good enough to take over (if it ever is). Definitely a better option than using coal, in my opinion. I guess we'll see.

Made small talk with the Senator twice today in the halls. He's such a great person, I really respect him. I'm glad I'm working for him!

What else...oh! I got to bring the Senator's dinner/newspapers down to the Senate gym today, which was pretty cool.

C'est tout!

Not too much went on today... edited a letter from the Senator to a committee leader, and did a performance review with my bosses. Everything went well! Can't say anything about the review (or the letter) because of confidentiality stuff, but it was a great day overall. Also, my soccer bracket is looking pretty good...Yay for the World Cup!