I spent the morning chasing Sonya Sotomayor around the Senate office buildings. She was meeting with a couple of Senators who are involved in the confirmation hearings. The first place she stopped was Senator Barbara Mikulski's office. They let the still photographers in first, then the videographers. By the time we got into the office, Sotomayor and Senator Mikulski had started talking about how much they like Nancy Drew books. It was like listening into a phone conversation between two teenage girls. Sotomayor said that her local library did not carry many titles, so her mom had to buy them for her. Then they started talking about how strict the nuns/teachers were at their school.

Her next stop was in the Russel office building. I was able to get a nice walk in shot, but the cameraman next to me kept elbowing me and telling me to stop moving around. I was standing perfectly still and not touching him. These photo-sprays are always hard, because everyone wants to get the shot and they will push you out of the way to do so. I had to hit a print reporter on the head, because he was leaning his face into my shot. It is much easier when they let the cameras set up first, then they come into the room. Hillary Clinton always does her photo-sprays at the State Department that way and it makes them much more civilized.