Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to take a moment to recognize a wonderful member of my team who, after 9 years, will be leaving us at the end of this week. For more than 9 years, Jodi Niehoff has been the heart and soul of our operation. She has been our administration and correspondence manager. She has been our intern coordinator and our unofficial planner for party events celebrating legislative victories or comings and goings of staff or birthdays. She has been the hostess and MC of our annual holiday gift swap and so many other things, adding to the esprit de corps of our team. My team has pulled together a few stats, and these statistics indicate just some of the work she has done over these years during which I have had the privilege to work with her. She has been a staunch believer not just in communicating with constituents but doing so quickly and in a meaningful and heartfelt way. Under her leadership, we have worked to have a substantive response to every single letter that comes into our office and try to get out that response, whenever possible, on the same day or the next day and when more research is needed, to do so within a few days. It is a huge challenge because so many people now are communicating via email, and we have weeks in which we can receive 10,000 or 12,000 or 14,000 letters.…”