Christine Quinn: “Charlie has made us all look good, both on C-SPAN and back home for our constituents, and for our colleagues here in the…”

“Charlie has made us all look good, both on C-SPAN and back home for our constituents, and for our colleagues here in the Chamber. I was in the chair one day and some rule question came up. After I answered it, my mother called me on the phone and said, ``How did you know all of those rules so quickly?'' I said, ``It was easy, Charlie Johnson was there.'' She said, ``Who is he?'' I said, ``Well, he is the guy that does the trick. He talks into the microphone so you hear him, but so nobody else hears him, and he explains the rules.'' Charlie, on behalf of all of the Speaker pro tempores, some with a little more experience than others, who you have made look good across the country and in front of our colleagues, I want to thank you for knowing those rules, for sharing those rules, and for keeping this place a place of order when we are in the chair trying to keep order.”