We will have it for you live on cspan when it gets underway. In the meantime, we learn about a new member of congress,. Congresswoman karen handel serves georgia six district that includes sandy springs. Rep. Handel representing the people of georgia. Host what was the most surprising thing you have picked up . Guest it was a fastpaced and its important because we have a lot we needed to get done and mean to make sure on the issue side in the policy side, but also giving the team put in place as well. Issues, the side of theres some type of learning curve with issues. You are dealing with debt ceiling and the budget situation. How do you bring yourself up to speed . Guest im a fairly studious individual so i spent every single evening catching up on issues and as many briefings as i can get to that i can go to. Yesterday we had a very good budget briefing. We had a tax reform briefing yesterday evening. My colleagues and not just from the georgia delegation but from the entire caucus have been extraordinarily helpful in being willing to spend time with me if its before a set of votes and committee, a bill mockup, to help me get up to speed and answer all my questions. That has been really helpful. Host have you had a mentor here with someone specific as a colleague that you have been relying on . Guest congressman doug collins has been terrific. He and i serve on judiciary together. Congressman drew ferguson, he and i serve on education and workforce together and several of the female members, we have a fairly tightknit group. They have really made sure that i know my way around. Host some people when they hear theyre coming to congress, you mention bring a team together. What decisions do you have to make on the practical side to build the staff and the support system you need to do your job . Guest coming in the middle of the cycle, i have a very short window. Members of secretary prices team were very well first and health care issue. They all went with him to hhs. Its a good thing and a bad thing where i had a completely open palette to start over. We are getting there. I have a strong director and chief of staff and we are filling out the rest of the team. Host tell us about the daytoday. Whats it like in the life of a representative . Guest im usually too by 7 00 or 7 30 a. M. I caps on the news and whats happening for the day. Any Additional Reading that i need to do. It is briefings, committee meetings, votes in the midmorning, and votes again toward the midafternoon late day. Host as far as that briefing, you mentioned secretary price. Did they offer you any advice coming into it . Guest i have extremely big shoes to fill with the leadership in this position. Secretary price has been a longtime friend and mentor. He and i still try to carve out some time every week to just chat at least on the phone a little bit about just the issues in the district and all those things. He has been terrific. Host you live in georgia and serve georgia, but you grew up around washington, d. C. Guest i grew up in southern maryland. My husband and i have been in georgia for 25 years now. It is home for us. It is where we spent all but eight months of our marriage. Georgia is home. Inis interesting to be back the washington, d c area with old friends here that have been looking at. Thats been fun. Host what took you from this area to georgia . Guest my husbands job. When we got married, i was working in the bushquayle administration. In 1992, we were not reelected. We do that career paths were going to take us somewhere else. Georgia and Metro Atlanta was number one on a list to go to. Was maybe six months into it and he got a job promotion to go to atlanta. We said lets go check it out. As soon as we got there within three months, i said to him, well honey, i love it here. I told my dad, but you have to tell your mom. Host [laughter] is he still in atlanta . Guest he well. He will keep her home in roswell, georgia, where we live right in the heart of the six district. I will commute back and forth. One of the ways to keep my feet on the ground is to make sure that i go home and im doing my Grocery Shopping and going to church with the people i represent. Its also important to me to keep the circle of friends who are not in the world of politics. They dont care about any of this. They will tell you like this. Host what have you heard from them . Guest nothing too much. Ive gotten a little past Ticket Office set up. My friends are not in the clinical world. Good afternoon and welcome. Obviously back to begin. The New York Times is quote reporting that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has resigned. You can see the entire story at cspan. Org. At georgetown universitys Mcdonough School of business, im
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