David Tennent was unfamiliar with the ins and outs of Congress when he left his hometown of Pittsburgh to start working on Capitol Hill in March 2019 as an intern in the office of a Republican House member, but he quickly proved to be a fast learner.
“I didn’t even know what ‘a coffee’ was until I moved to Washington, D.C., but then I went to a lot of those,” Tennent, 25, told The Epoch Times in a recent interview, describing the difficulties facing all newcomers to the Hill to meet colleagues and make new friends, even in the best of times.
