David Tennent was unfamiliar with the ins and outs of Congress when he left his hometown of Pittsburgh to start working on Capitol Hill in May 2017 as an intern in the office of Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), but he quickly proved to be a fast learner. “I didn’t even know what ‘a coffee’ was until I moved to Washington, D.C., but then I went to a lot of those,” Tennent, 26, told The Epoch Times in a recent interview, describing the difficulties facing all newcomers to the Hill to meet colleagues and make new friends, even in the best of times. Tennent did manage to meet people, but it wasn’t easy, thanks to the many factors that make working on the Hill a unique challenge: long hours, chronically low pay for all but the top positions, frequently high turnover, the steep cost-of-living in the nation’s capital, always laboring in …