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The Biden Administration managed to raise a long list of the main legislative victories in the first two years despite the confrontation of one of the most existing conferences in history.
From party work on infrastructure, arms safety and marriage of the same sex from party laws that address climate change and expand health care coverage, was a standard president Joe Biden and Democrats in voting, all of whom are keen to promote the campaign path during the mid -planting period.
But out of the limelight is a woman who helped achieve all this: Luisa Terril.
As the director of the White House Legislative Office, Terril, 53, leads a team that is the eyes and the collective ears of the President in Congress.
“Ensure that we are responding, and ensuring that we are proactive, and discover what is happening here in this building,” Terril told CNN, and explained her job while standing in front of the Capitol, where she spends a large period of time even even though she works in the White House.
She describes her role as a leader to transfer Biden’s agenda through Congress.
“You want to talk to the committees and Ephes. Who speaks to driving? Who are the coming? What is the work of the floor?
But unlike the actual conductor located at the front of the orchestra, Terril works largely behind the scenes.
In fact, when we sat in our conversation at the White House executive building, she said it was her first television interview – at all.
Terrell’s experience in Washington was decisive for her success. I started for the first time on the hill more than 20 years ago as an employee at the time. Biden in the Judicial Committee. If we look back, describing itself at the time as a “high delayer”, in awe of the legal scribes with experience and experienced employees surrounding it. She soon found her feet and flourished, and she continues to work as deputy chief of Staff Biden and later worked at the Obama Legal Affairs Office – the team that is now leading it.
Even with her wide autobiography, Terrell easily admits that Washington today is more striking to move than the one that she reached for the first time in two decades.
“It has become the extreme extreme and I think this makes it more difficult,” she said. “You have to work hard to find the place where you can meet in the middle.”
It has proven to be able to invite the personal relationships that I have torn over the years over the Capitol Hill is very important to work all over the corridor to find this middle land, especially given the kind majority of Democrats.
She said about her talks with Republican lawmakers: “I will be very clear about the president’s position and why we want to see what we want to see.” “Republicans know that when this White House gives – and whether we have in our team or a senior official – the word, then we stand by our word. I think this type of credibility on the hill was very important to move things.”
She said deep relations also concern.
“You get fuel from other people you are working with. I get an incredible amount of fuel from a large team here in the White House and people who have years and years of experience and relationships in these matters.”
It is a kind of work that can make or break a president, and although he is very unlucky, this does not mean that no one will notice. After confirming the Supreme Court as her first black justice, Kitanji Brown Jackson Terril included her shout as one of the “wonderful people” who helped make the historical achievement possible.
The longest relationship of Terril in the White House with the president himself. Although her career started when she came to Washington two decades ago, she met Biden for the first time when she was only 5 years old.
“I met Beau Biden in kindergarten,” Terril, from Wilmengton, remembers with a smile. “It was (was) a very fast bike from my house to where Bo grew up. So we were childhood friends (f) with friends for … all the age of puberty.”
She remembers the Biden family visit as a child, where she participates with CNN, a running joke from her childhood.
“When we go to Beau’s house, there was a fax machine in the living room and everything you need to know (was), does not spoil the fax machine,” she says. “Once again, this is Dilayer and perhaps the first fax machine in Dilayer, this is high -tech equipment.”
Terrell’s life relationship with the Biden family means that it brings a unique view of her work in the White House.
She said: “He knows the most important and only calls this way.” “You know where the person came from and I think this helps.”
“It brings warmth to work and I feel very lucky to do so.”
Terril said her friend Po, who died due to a brain tumor in 2015, is always on her mind.
She said, “You want to represent what … the president wants you to do.” “Then there is always this other question, what will be Beau?
Two years after her work in the Judicial Committee, Terril became pregnant. Biden’s office says the first family culture. But as she continues in her career in Washington, her children became older, and the budget law became more complicated.
“I had a job in the Obama administration when my children were saying, like, about 6, 8 – or 4 and 6. Everything is a little blurry,” she said jokingly.
After working as a “bed, bath and beyond”, describes the “second transformation” after a full day in the office. It is something he realizes now, as a big woman in management.
“I look across the White House, and the women who are their children at that age, and you really (remember) the time that their days and nights take,” Terril said. “Then think about the type of performance and the type of 100 % they offer in the office every day. I have a lot of gratitude and admiration.”
Women who possess the table is not just a phrase in the Terill office. When CNN stopped by one of her team’s meetings in the western wing, the room was full of young employees – most of them women. Terrell says this was a conscious decision, not because of their gender, but because they were the best for this position.
() The expectation is, be ready to contribute. She said about the young employees: “This is a kind of what I mean – be ready and ready to play.” Don’t be afraid to do that. ”
But when I was asked about the advice she would give the young women that started in the government today, Terrell did not hesitate.
She said, “I think women today are more courageous than you were.” “It’s really impressive. So, I think they don’t need my advice, in fact, yes, they don’t need me.” I am just happy with drinks and coffee with them when they take me. ”
Terril and her team are deep in negotiations for the last weeks of the majority of the Democratic House of Representatives, which means the competing priorities for the rest of the larvae session-the most important of which is the basic function of Congress in government financing.
Since some Democrats tried to pressure the legislation to regulate social media companies, Terrell’s work on Facebook raised some questions between some advocacy groups, although Terrell maintains her work in the technology giant 10 years ago that does not contradict the presidential agenda of the president.
“I think this type of president has assumed his position and carried him on this topic on very pro -competition and supportive and healing in social media platforms, and what they are today is not what they were 10 years ago. So we worked really hard, I think To strengthen these executive procedures, organizational procedures, and the people we brought to the administration to work on these, and worked hard on the legislative pieces, and I hope to continue doing this next year.
Although the Democratic majority of the Senate will expand a little in January, the Terrell office in the front lines is preparing for the Republicans to take over the council and launch a wave of investigations into Congress in Biden officials.
“It is clear that there will be a large piece of,” this is supervision ” – I heard this -” We are watching, and this is just expected. “I think the view of the president and the team here is, you cannot leave this type of swamps. The boat. ”
“I think the president said that he is ready to work with anyone who wants to work with, and hopes that the Republicans will do this, and that they will accomplish people’s work and not to go on the holes of the rabbit.”
She insists on her team’s relations with not only Democrats, but with Republicans across the corridor will take fruits.
She said: “The type of relationships that link you with the Republicans, we were working on it all the time.” “There are people in our store, and again, the people here at the White House, who have some of these relationships. Thus, it will not feel that we feel umbrellas. He will only feel that it is the second chapter.”