Michael Bennet: “In the vein of thank-yous, I wanted to come down after this historic day, passing this historic bill, to say some…”

“In the vein of thank-yous, I wanted to come down after this historic day, passing this historic bill, to say some thank-yous. I have already thanked my colleagues in the Gang of 8 and the other Senators who worked so hard on this bill, and there will be a time to do that on another occasion. Sometimes people have asked me during the course of my checkered career: How did you get to do this? Why did they let you do this? How did somebody with no apparent skill or aptitude for public education, for example, get to run the Denver Public Schools, one of the most cherished things I have ever done. My answer has always been the same, which is the key is to find a bunch of people who are better at doing their job than you would ever be at doing their job. Assemble them, organize them around a project, a challenge or an obstacle and let them do their thing. The Presiding Officer spoke eloquently about this yesterday when he thanked his personal staff and the Senate staff on his way back to Massachusetts. I ask unanimous consent to submit the list of staff for the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record , as follows: Staff Thank Yous: Senator McCain: Mark Delich; Senator Durbin: Joe Zogby, and Mara Silver; Senator Graham: Matt Rimkunas; Senator Menendez: Kerri Talbot, and Molly Groom; Senator Flake: Chandler Morse”