How is it that Congress does not have a projector?

A rare political post, thankfully lacking any real political content:

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How it that that Congress does not have a projector? Or many projectors? I can walk into any room on my campus that can seat more than 15 people, and they all have a projector wired up so that any laptop can seamlessly deliver a powerpoint presentation by plugging in a single cable.

Every time I see someone speaking in congress, the House and the Senate, they have these shitty little placards balanced on a tripod next to them, and some poor page has to run back and forth to get everything together. Are our members of congress just old and incompetent with technology? No, I know plenty of old people who can hack it on powerpoint. It can't be budgetary. Hell, even with the really high ceilings in the capital: just hang one off the top, or embed it in a podium lower somewhere. Project it from behind the screen.

This is not hard. I see no excuse. That is, except for my favorite political argument: Fuck them. So there. Fuck them, and that is why they need to post stupid cardboard posters whenever they want to show graphic data.