Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yesterday was the last work day for Tricia Engle, our beloved assistant Democratic secretary. Tricia is leaving the Senate after 26 years of devoted service. I would like to take this opportunity to thank her and wish her well as she embarks on the next adventure in her life. If Tricia were a Senator, she would rank ninth in Senate seniority, in-between Senator Collins and Leader Schumer. She arrived here in July 1997, shortly after graduating from South Dakota State University. She started in the Senate as a staff assistant for her home State Senator, then-Democratic Leader Tom Daschle. Within a few months, she went to work in the Democratic cloakroom and then became a floor assistant for Leaders Daschle, Reid, and Schumer before becoming assistant secretary in 2019. The Senate, as we all know, is not the most ``family-friendly'' institution, but Tricia has managed to raise two fine boys, William and Garrison, while working here. And she managed to earn her M.A. and M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School in 2010, an extraordinary accomplishment when you consider the long hours and unpredictability of the Senate schedule. Tricia knows Senate rules and procedure as well as anyone and has been indispensable to me and so many other Senators.…”