Descriptive Essay: The Congressional Chamber

If I had to pick a group of individuals who truly make a difference every day in the United States, I would say, without hesitation, our Congress. And when I say every day, I truly mean every day, including those grueling hours at the golf course on one of their two hundred forty days off per year. I do not know about you, but I always thought that the best way to convince someone that my viewpoint was right was to show my dominance by striking a ball into a hole with a stick. This of course demonstrates Congress’ always tactful and ever wise approach to their career. Golf, especially two hundred forty days of it, is a terribly demanding career, but it gives them just enough time to return to their second job, running the legislative branch …show more content…
First of all, the seating in the chamber resembles seating usually found in a theater setting, with seats facing the center platform, while each row gradually rises up the slope. Each seat has thick padding as if the designers of the chamber foresaw the long periods of sitting our Congressmen would endure. I would not be surprised to discover that the chairs reclined, gave a massage, and featured a button to call for catering through long periods of debate and storytelling. The seating faces a central platform where a few members, including the Speaker of the House, sits. The press gallery, located above the seating for the Congressmen, accommodates the reporters from various reporting agencies. I am sure the press often hears copious amounts of interesting and entertaining ideas to report from these sessions, which probably creates inspiration for television producers to create soap operas. This, of course, makes sense as there are several similarities between Congress and soap operas. For example, soap operas enjoy cliffhangers and not resolving conflict. Similarly, Congress enjoys to leave conflicts unresolved, preferring to wait to resolve the conflict during the next episode, until the season is over, the show is cancelled, and you never find out what happened to John and Lisa’s forbidden love affair that everyone seemed to know about, except of course, their actual spouses. Besides soap operas, acts of Congress inspired certain aspects of the show House of Cards. Kevin McCarthy, who was recently running to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the House, was shadowed by Kevin Spacey as Spacey was preparing to begin his role as the brutal, merciless politician he plays in the show. If that does not restore the country’s faith in Congress, nothing will. The entertainment value for the press must be at a record breaking high, and I am sure they love their jobs. Who can blame them? There is not