On getting things done

It's amazing to me that Congress was designed by the framers to be a slow and deliberative body. I've been working as a fellow there for the last two months and my day is anything but slow and deliberative. In fact, it's a bit of a workout.

I feel like I'm constantly running from a 10am meeting on one topic to a 12-2 briefing on another, then to a 2pm meeting on something else. And in between, I'm supposed to have read something, answered emails, made phone calls, and tried to think of intelligent questions to ask in the next meeting.

Or maybe this is the point: The members of Congress and their staff are so caught up with all the activity that no one can really sit down to think things through.