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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. President, with me today are two of my colleagues—Mr. John Lowery, my executive assistant. You have met John before. But the star of the show today—for me, anyway—is Ms. Kailyn Sheehan.
Kailyn is also an executive assistant to me. Her job includes scheduling. It is the worst job in America. All scheduling jobs are tough because you have to tell a small percentage of people yes but a whole lot of people no, and some people don't take no well.
Kailyn is leaving me. I say that with joy and sadness. As I said before, I try to hire the best people I can, and when you do that, as the Presiding Officer knows, you hire good people, and they are ambitious and they want to move up. And so it is just the price you pay.
Kailyn is very, very smart. She has an undergraduate degree and an M.B.A. degree. In college, she really was a good student, but she was also a student athlete. She played soccer in college and was very good at it.
Kailyn never loses her composure. She is steady. She never panics. That doesn't sound like a big deal, I suppose, but being a scheduler up here is hard. It is really, really, really hard.
Congratulations, Congressman. You are getting a good one in Kailyn.
just doing scheduling but doing other things in the office.
So, Kailyn, I wanted to ask you to come down and to say thank you.
Thank you for your good work.