Political Quotes

“so much of the Senate's work happens behind the scenes and out of the spotlight. Over the past few weeks, there are scores of Senate staffers--probably more than scores; hundreds, I would say--who have spent many late nights and some sleepless ones putting this emergency relief and omnibus bill together, so I wanted to come back to the floor today and acknowledge all of the hard-working Senate Democratic staff. To create a law, there are staffs from committees and Senators' offices who are truly experts. They make sure what we Senators want to achieve is written properly. They have years--some, decades--of experience in their subject area. They are libraries of information of how programs work. They are also creative thinkers and masters of accomplishing what Senators might think is easy--turning a few lines of our direction into legislative text--under tremendous time pressure and, lately, during the pandemic. These are the names of some of the Senate's unsung heroes to whom we all owe an amazing debt of gratitude: From the Committee on Appropriations: Charles ``Chuck'' Kieffer, Chanda Betourney, Hannah Chauvin, Dianne Nellor, Jean Toal Eisen, Erik Raven, Doug Clapp, Ellen Murray, Scott Nance, Rachael Taylor, Alex Keenan, Jessica Berry, Michelle Dominguez, Tim Rieser, and Dabney Hegg.…”