During one hearing, a Senator got uppity with me - he was very condescending.
I found a good way to shut him down - essentially using the Crocodile Dundee style of topic expansion to reverse condescend - i.e. by using the ""that's not a knife - *this* is a knife" approach. He got really ticked off. But I didn't mind; he was a jerk anyway and I was glad when he washed out on his bid to be President.
My approach to testifying was to do as much work as possible beforehand with congress-critter staff to make sure we are speaking the same language - which is especially important when the topic is technical (or medical). This same approach works well with journalists. Sometimes this preparation can take months or even years.
(I once got my company's DC lobbyist really angry at me because I was getting better access to various Senators than he did.)
Karl Auerbach
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