In contrast, newcomers fresh out of college have grown up with the notion that "the legislature is the platform for compromise in a democratic political system." They are more concerned with the progress of bills: "We don't do things like the people who used to work here, whose ideals haunted them like ghosts, always reminding them of their youthful faith and political conscience."
相對的，大學畢業未久的助理們，因成長過程裡早已習慣「國會是民主政治中的妥協平台」，他們比較關心的反而是法案進度，「不會再如以前的人，理想隨時如『鬼魅』般出沒，提醒著年輕時信仰的政治良知。」