But unlike the stream of policy meetings and party posturing usually heard in Committee Room 8, Wright was here not for politics, but poetry.
He is the candidate, after all, who outlined 59 proposals in a 160-page booklet during the primaries, and he has put out a steady stream of policy papers since then.
Is a headteacher's job the best in the world or, these days, is it an endless stream of policy changes against a backdrop of constant fear that one disappointing Ofsted inspection could see the end of your career?
In the six weeks since Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her candidacy for the United States Senate, she has delivered a stream of policy addresses that have begun to sketch out the ideological foundation for her campaign.
When Arthur retired in 1971, they became a writing partnership, producing, over the next 30 years, a stream of policy papers and books including Prevention of Handicap and the Health of Women (1979), which focused attention on nutritional requirements before conception.
But before the long-awaited Browne Review proposed removing the cap on tuition fees, there was a stream of policy announcements covering all areas of education.
The Commission's steady stream of policy proposals as a solution to the problems associated with undiversified and increasing energy import dependency demonstrated a key element in the process of agenda-setting.
A window of opportunity is open for a major policy change only if these three different streams of policy making process coexist simultaneously.
He is a ferociously intelligent one-man ideas factory, gushing forth an endless stream of new policies and arguments.As Speaker of the House of Representatives after he led his party to victory in the 1994 mid-term elections, his clever "Contract With America" made him a tea-partier before there was ever a tea party.
From Lee Kuan Yew to Deng Xiaoping, we see examples of good (but not perfect and often autocratic) leaders who showed a constant penchant for self-education and asceticism, learned from the best minds, and employed a competent cadre of subordinates, who -- leveraging the vast bureaucratic machine -- deployed a sustained stream of innovative policies geared towards national development.
