Task for a Capitol Hill Intern

An uppity intern in a Senate office asked for more challeging work so one of the senior staffers sent her the following list:

1. Attend the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing tomorrow at 10 AM on the Administration's Climate Change Perspectives. The hearing is in 2123 RHOB. It would also be helpful if you could write a memo summarizing the salient points of the hearing.
2. Attend the Congressional Research and Development Caucus Briefing tomorrow at noon on new nuclear technologies. The meeting is in 2168 RHOB. It would also be helpful if you could write a memo summarizing the salient points of the meeting.
3. A commission, mandated by the 2005 highway law ( PL 109-59), released its long-awaited report Tuesday in which it suggested that the best short-term solution to the nation's infrastructure problems would be to raise gasoline as much as 40 cents a gallon over five years. Please get a copy of that report, and go into a little more detail in a memo on what the Commission used to come to a 40 cent number, as well as what they anticipate it will mitigate.
4. Please put together a spreadsheet of the nations that use nuclear power for electricity generation, the amount of megawatts it produces, the percentage of overall baseload power it is in their grid, the last time they built a reactor, and any plans they may have for future reactors.

Here are some other tasks for the over achiever

1. There is a rare flower that grows in the flower beds at Dupont Circle. Walk, don't metro, to the circle, find the flower (I forget which one) and write a memo summarizing the salient points of its rapturous beauty. Because I don't remember the name of the plant, best write a memo for each type of flower you see.
2. In the catacombs of the Library of Congress there is a rare manuscript of the charter of the Knights Templar. In order to find it, you must answer 3 riddles posed to you by the catacomb guard. Once you correctly answer the riddles, you may be let into the chamber of the manuscript. Only the pure of heart will be able to retrieve it, and and unexpected obstacles lie in the way. On your way back to russell, pick me up an Enviga. If you get me peach, Ill effing kill you.
3. Calculate the air-speed velocity of a european unlade swallow versus that of an african unladen swallow.

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