Look closely at a video of the Latvian president arriving to address Congress in 2006, and you might see a familiar face in the background.
The person wearing a bright green sweater, seated right on the aisle? That would be Rep. Lauren Underwood, then a 19-year-old intern working on the Hill.
Her boss was Barack Obama, still a senator from Illinois at the time. She hadn’t expected to be in the chamber that day to hear a foreign leader speak, but they needed interns to fill the seats — and she still remembers what it felt like to set foot on the House floor.
