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Pick your committee assignments carefully. 

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My reaction was, knowing myself, I'm not going to get on a committee where I, I'm not interested in, and it isn't something that 

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you look at not only represent your district, but also represent you as an individual to, to be working there. 

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One of, one of the first things the Members do is they pick their committee, the Steering and Policy picks committee assignments. 

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And I thought, "Well, okay. I know what I want. I know what I don't want." 

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So, I put down Judiciary. And I made sure they knew I didn't have a law degree, but I didn't have a college degree.

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I thought I'm safe on that one. I put down Armed Services.

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I put down, I put down one other, one other one, which I knew I wasn't going to get on, and Interior. 

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And surprisingly, I got Armed Services and Interior. Isn't that amazing?

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But, you know, you look at Ways and Means, Appropriations—you know, Members come: "I want Ways and Means. I want Appropriations. I want Judiciary." 

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And, and then they end up on something which really they're not excited about. Well, I was excited about both of those two committees that I served on.