David Cummings
-
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
If there’s one thing junior David Cummings
learned about government work from his
internship last semester, it’s that there’s
always something that needs to be done.
Cummings interned full time in the
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
under Representative Mike Hanna and said
that there was no “typical day” during his
internship because “it always varies.” He
was one of five interns chosen for the
Legislative Fellowship Program, a paid
internship that required working
Monday-Friday, 9-5.
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Christopher Welker - Pennsylvania Office of
the Budget
 Money.
It’s something everyone thinks about,
especially during the current economic
conditions. Everyone watches the news and
waits to see what changes are being made to
the government’s budget and how it will
affect us.
One LHU student got to spend a semester
working within the government and seeing
firsthand how budgets are developed.
Christopher Welker, senior, spent his fall
semester as an intern with Pennsylvania’s
Office of the Budget, which, according to
its website, “is
responsible for preparing the Governor’s
annual budget and implementing it after it
is passed by the General Assembly and the
Governor signs it into law.”
Welker found this opportunity by talking to
a professor about it. He applied for, and
was placed in, The Harrisburg Internship
Semester program, or THIS.
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