Orientation Complete, Congressional Fellows Walk Halls of Congress

Abstract

The 50th class of APSA Congressional Fellows begins to settle into their congressional staff assignments, emerging as the proud survivors of an intensive, monthlong orientation that opened with daily seminars and concluded with a two-day advanced legislative process institute hosted by the Congressional Research Service. Joe Bowersox, a political scientist Fellow from Willamette University, described the experience as “policy and legislative boot camp,” but stressed that “for the political scientists, [it was] a tremendous opportunity to meet people they'd always read and heard about.”