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On the recordMay 23, 2023
Today I wish one of the members of my team, Sam West, a very happy birthday but also farewell. Sam is originally from Indianapolis. He went to school at Indiana University and Purdue University, so he is both a Hoosier and a Boilermaker. He worked as an auto technician before coming to work here in Congress. In healthcare there are a million acronyms. I don't know of any other place in the world than D.C. that uses more acronyms, and nobody seems to know what they stand for. It is because of Sam's time working on automobiles that allowed us to see eye-to-eye on so many things. I spent my entire career in the private sector as an auto dealer, and Sam has always been able to translate a lot of Pennsylvania's healthcare priorities into terms that I have been using my whole life, and it just clicked. We really worked well together. He is moving over to the Senate to be a health policy adviser for Senator Bill Cassidy. I know he is going to do a great job. Sam, I tell people all the time, it is not so much the Member that matters, it is the staff. Here is Sam with a couple of his cheerleader friends, Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders. Wherever he goes, he will always be a part of our team, and he is always going to have great fans. ____________________
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Mike Kelly
Republican · Pennsylvania
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May 23, 2023

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