Mary Kevin Niland

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Mary Kevin Niland is one of two reading clerks of the United States House of Representatives, a face familiar to viewers of C-SPAN, the network which covers House proceedings. The reading clerk reads bills, motions, and other papers before the House and keeps track of changes to legislation made on the floor. During the vote for Speaker at the beginning of each Congress, or when the electronic voting system fails, the clerk calls the roll of members for voting viva voce. She became Democratic clerk in 1998 at the recommendation of Minority Leader Richard A. Gephart of Missouri to replace Meg Goetz. Niland's Republican counterpart is Paul Hays.