Aides Assemble

POLITICAL AIDE 1: Okay people. let's keep this ball rolling. Ramon, what have you got?

RAMON: We've got the Iowa delegation on board if they get the amendment about biofuels.

POLITICAL AIDE 1: How many are left in the Iowa delegation?

RAMON: Four. The rest are all sick.

POLITICAL AIDE 1: Well, let's hope those four stay healthy. Who else can we count on?

POLITICAL AIDE 2: Hey, just got this - the junior senator from Nebraska just sent her staff home for the duration.

POLITICAL AIDE 1: Damnit, we were counting on her support once we got through the House.

RAMON: You have to wonder if it's worth it.

POLITICAL AIDE 1: What is? This?

RAMON: Yeah. I mean, it's getting really bad out there. Shouldn't we be, you know, doing something else to help?

POLITICAL AIDE 1: You mean instead of trying to push through an energy bill with the world falling to pieces.

POLITICAL AIDE 2: Well, yeah.

POLITICAL AIDE 1: Look, sooner or later this is going to pass. And when it does, all the problems we're dealing with now, they'll still be there. So it makes sense for us to keep trying to deal with them, because someone has to.

RAMON: And because we're at the bottom of the pay scale.

POLITICAL AIDE 2: That, too.

Appearances

 * Tom Clancy's The Division 2