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Article: Catherine Reid: Commerce's wise counsel.(House Commerce Committee senior counsel)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- March 11, 1996
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Being in the majority is more fun," says Catherine Reid, senior counsel to the House Commerce Committee. It's also a lot more work.
When Republicans took control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, they cut the committee staff by one third. Reid, who already was working long hours before the 1994 election, saw her workload triple as the Republicans picked up the mantle of telecommunications reform.
It was left to Reid and her colleague Michael Regan to coordinate the detailed work of writing the first major overhaul of communications law in more than 60 years.
For the last three months of 1995, Reid, Regan and 40 other congressional staffers sat ...