The Importance of a SNAP Program for Veterans

In your book, you talk about how the committee process can be a vehicle for learning. One legislator said that being in Congress was like going back to college because there was so much learning involved. You don't have to be a policy wonk to get elected to Congress; even if you are, when you come to D.C., you're going to be assigned issues outside your wheelhouse and expected to become expert in them.