She is just there. Watching, listening, recording. And then there's this striking black woman in the back who wears her hair in a crown, who's vigorously engaged, who comes each day with the Congressional Record and a yellow legal pad and a gray composition book that is filling up fast. She jots down notes with such speed and focus you'd think she'd been asked to take dictation. And so you wonder what Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is doing exactly.
People ask questions.
They ask questions at restaurants. They ask questions at airport ticket counters. Sometimes spontaneous debates break out in these public spaces as they did in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. You get queried wherever you go. So if I can help edify it . . .