Interview: “We believe in God in northeastern Pennsylvania.” Rep.-elect Rob Bresnahan previews his first term
"I speak bulldozer," the incoming Republican lawmaker told the Washington Reporter. That's not just a phrase for him; it's how he won his campaign too.
“I speak bulldozer” is not just a line on the campaign trail for Representative-elect Rob Bresnahan, who unseated one of the GOP’s longtime white whales in November. Bresnahan, a native northeastern Pennsylvanian, relied on connections he’s built from over a decade of “servant leadership” and on the construction imagery in his own campaign ads to notch one of the House GOP’s most critical pickups.
The 34-year-old Bresnahan identifies as an “old soul,” and will be one of the youngest members of Congress after he’s sworn in. He “had to grow up fast,” he told the Washington Reporter in an interview. “I went to the University of Scranton, but I was also responsible for over 50 people to be able to take care of their families. So sure, did I have a wonderful life and incredible opportunities? Yes, but I never really rested on my laurels. And whether it was a project, a real estate development objective, sometimes you don't recognize that you're a millennial.”
Bresnahan defeated Rep. Matt Cartwright (D., Pa.), a wealthy incumbent who sat on the Appropriations Committee, and will represent President Joe Biden’s home district. The district is also home to a robust labor community, and Bresnahan’s win shows Republicans how they can cement down ballot gains with union voters in the Trump era.
“My grandfather and our family have been in northeastern Pennsylvania for five generations, and just having that narrative that somebody running in the seat has been there for the duration” was essential, he said. “And we're a union electrical contractor. We're collectively bargained with, I think, seven different CBAs. I always said that I speak bulldozer, because coming into our family business in 2008, 2009, we got totally clobbered, and we were able to take a good family business and grow into something really special.”
The union and blue collar workers who dominate Bresnahan’s district’s political scene “cared about the same things everybody else cared about,” he said. “They wanted an economy that would work. They wanted borders that were secure, and they wanted safe communities. The narrative and the stigma that all Republicans are going to eradicate Davis-Bacon isn't the truth, and it was changing that narrative and speaking with them. Now, listen, I knew going in that they had been long supporters of my opponent, but I met with all of them, and I said, ‘on day one, you will have a friend who understands what an apprenticeship program is, what the annuity programs are like.’ I was the past chairman of the joint apprenticeship training committee. I was a past health and wellness trustee. I was an annuity trustee. We would not have been able to grow our company 400 percent over a period of ten years if we did not have the relationships with the organized trade.”
Voters of all stripes in northwestern Pennsylvania “see what's happening on the southern border. They saw biological men participating in female sports,” he added. “They didn't want their kids being indoctrinated into the school systems and gender ideologies and theories. They cared about the kitchen table issues that the rest of us all care about each and every day. They care about providing for their family. They care about being able to put food in the refrigerator. They care about putting fuel in their vehicles and being able to get to the other side of the river and not having to drive an extra eleven miles out of the way because of crumbling infrastructure.”
Bresnahan supported Cartwright financially in the past. “But then in 2022 the first vote that he took when he came back was against border security. And I said, ‘how can you do that? That is not what northeastern Pennsylvania needs,’” he said.
During his campaign, Bresnahan took a trip with Morgan Ortagus’s Polaris National Security organization to America’s border with Mexico which “totally changed by story” how he addressed border security on the trail.
“We were at the border at two o'clock in the morning,” he said. “We saw a group of 50 or 60 people walk around the wall, surrender themselves to Border Patrol agents. And it really put a face to the problem, and it really became a humanitarian crisis.” To add insult to injury, “we saw someone specifically walk around the border, and be at a processing center the next day. And then when I flew back from Phoenix to Newark, that same person got on the airplane in the zone in front of me, and he had three young kids with him and a female traveling companion.”
“You can see it on TV, but when you're there, at two o'clock in the morning with Dave McCormick, who was actually on our trip as well, it’s different,” he reflected. “It became a part of my narrative through Election Day.”
While being a millennial isn’t core to Breshanan’s political identity, he does love The Office, as many millennials are wont to do. The incoming Scranton-area congressman, however, “can’t say” what his favorite episode is. “That'd be like choosing between uncles.” Bresnahan, who attended the University of Scranton at the show’s height, does, however, appreciate the Easter eggs scattered throughout the show.
“Froggy 101 is a local radio station,” he said. “And the Welcome to Scranton sign, that is a sign that is on the Scranton Expressway. When they go to Cooper’s or Poor Richard’s Pub, those are real places. Poor Richard's Pub is in bowling alley; you would never think that from the side of the street, but you have to go through the bowling alley in order to get to Poor Richard's Pub.”
Bresnahan is likely to be a top target of the Democrats in two years, but he is nevertheless eager to get to work in January for the community that raised him — and is planning on having his office filled with merch from The Office.
“With the right leadership and the right reinvestment, northeastern Pennsylvania can be a home to advanced manufacturing, he said. “We can be a home to providing Made in America products. It's totally obtainable.”
Below is a transcript of our interview with Rep.-elect Rob Bresnahan, lightly edited for clarity.
Washington Reporter:
Rob Bresnahan, thanks so much for chatting today; you ran in a district that has been tough for Republicans for a very long time. Your opponent, Matt Cartwright, was the Republicans’ white whale for cycle after cycle. And it's Joe Biden's home turf. When you started running this campaign, were you confident you would win? What went through your mind? You're six years older than I older than I am, and you said, I can finally beat Cartwright.
Rob Bresnahan:
Obviously, we felt good going into it. I'm always very analytical on the data, and the data doesn't lie. But obviously, this narrative of this ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, who has unlimited fundraising capabilities, who's well-entrenched into the Lackawanna County community with his wife's family, who've been a long fixture from the district, certainly for the first few months, and to be trying to get people on board with our campaign, whether they're donors or supporters or volunteers, it took a lot. But obviously, water seeks water, and our work ethic over 13 months and three days, we drove over 50,000 miles, we knocked on over 50,000 doors, just as a campaign. And we're not afraid to work. We're not afraid to roll up our sleeves and go out and get the votes and do what we need to do. But the message that resonated was the kitchen table issues. It was the economy, it was immigration, it was crime inside of our communities. A month out before the election, Lackawanna County presented a 33 percent tax increase on property taxes. The timing of that was really fortunate for us, but was unfortunate for Congressman Cartwright, because that's what we ran on: the affordability of life, whether it's groceries, utility bills, putting fuel inside of your vehicles. We saw time and time again, of just infrastructure reports coming out that another local bridge that was getting its weight reduced, or that it was being shut down because it was structurally deficient. This was seriously a change election, and people were willing to give somebody else, somebody new, a chance.
Washington Reporter:
And of all of the presidential swing states, I think none was more fertile ground for Republicans down ballot, for Senate and Congress, than Pennsylvania. How did running in a presidential cycle inform your own campaign as you were going all over Northeast Pennsylvania?
Rob Bresnahan:
We knew Trump was going to win this district just by the feeling on the ground, the sentiment; this was a district that he won both in 2016 and in 2020, and we were confident that he was going to win it again in 2024. I don't think there's a magic bullet or a one off element, but we had to cut through the noise. We had to be different. And I'm sure if you've seen any of our ads in the past, we were vastly different than your traditional run of the mill political ad. We played on my background of being born in northeastern Pennsylvania, raised there, going to University of Scranton, reinvesting into my communities, creating jobs in my communities, and ultimately, planning on dying and getting buried in northeastern Pennsylvania. Everything about me has been northeastern Pennsylvania. During our debate, there was a clear dichotomy between a long term member of Congress and me being something new and different. And obviously people were willing to give me a chance to take the values of northeastern Pennsylvania back to Washington, D.C. I said it's not an R or D next to my name. The only letters next to my name are NEPA, and at the end of this, when I'm down here, that's the way that I'm going to vote.
Washington Reporter:
One of your ads that did definitely to me cut through the noise was you in the bucket truck. How did your background in business and your family's business play a role in your campaign, and how did it help you relate to your soon-to-be-constituents?
Rob Bresnahan:
The hardest part about getting into the race was deciding to do it, and you start to manufacture all of these scenarios that may or may not come into fruition. At that time, my grandfather was getting older in age. He was 88 at the time.
Washington Reporter:
That’s young enough to be president.
Rob Bresnahan:
Yes, especially if you're from Scranton. But, you know, he was worried about what he was going to see as he was going into the final goal line of his life. And ironically, a week after the election, passed away. My grandfather has been the father figure constant in my life. I think there's a couple of different reasons. I'm very happy that he saw us pull it off, but in Wally's world, I think he knows that I'm off payroll now and finally, he can rest in peace. But worrying about how it was going to be perceived against my grandmother, who's very active inside of the community was important; my grandfather and our family have been in northeastern Pennsylvania for five generations, and just having that narrative that somebody running in the seat has been there for the duration and we're a union electrical contractor. We're collectively bargained with, I think, seven different CBAs. I always said that I speak bulldozer, because coming into our family business in 2008, 2009, we got totally clobbered, and we were able to take a good family business and grow into something really special. But along the way, I've been incredibly blessed with being able to give back to my community, whether that is helping the local borough put up their Christmas tree, being involved with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, or the SPCA or Junior Achievement. Everything about me has been through servant leadership. And likewise, my fiance and I are just super active. So when this opportunity came, and once our family was on board, this was my way to give back to my home in a much broader and larger capacity. Being able to speak the narrative of what I feel, what people are feeling, and being able to relate to people, was important — because I was feeling it too. I'm as much now that I'm a member-elect of Congress, I was still a constituent. I’m still a resident of northeastern Pennsylvania, and I felt the same things that everybody else was feeling. I was the person who rolled up my sleeves and threw myself into fire here and one of the most expensive races in the United States. And let me tell you, they used every dollar because we were actually able to get one of the House Majority PAC ads pulled because of how egregious the lie was against us. But at the end of it all, it came to relatability. I put my pants on in the morning, just like everybody else does, and I think it's really important that I'm not going to forget where I came from. Northeastern Pennsylvania is my home. I'm the guy that, second my last meeting is done, I don't care if I drive home at 3:30 in the morning. I'm really excited to be home, and that's who has elected me to represent them, and that's who I will be beholden to.
Washington Reporter:
What do you think about the GOP and its current and future relationship with working class voters and union members? I think that was a big element of Trump's win, a big element of your win. How do you see that playing out in your time in Congress?
Rob Bresnahan:
They cared about the same things everybody else cared about. They wanted an economy that would work. They wanted borders that were secure, and they wanted safe communities. The narrative and the stigma that all Republicans are going to eradicate Davis-Bacon isn't the truth, and it was changing that narrative and speaking with them. Now, listen, I knew going in that they had been long supporters of my opponent, but I met with all of them, and I said, ‘on day one, you will have a friend who understands what an apprenticeship program is, what the annuity programs are like.’ I was the past chairman of the joint apprenticeship training committee. I was a past health and wellness trustee. I was an annuity trustee. We would not have been able to grow our company 400 percent over a period of ten years if we did not have the relationships with the organized trade. We also saw the caliber of the skilled tradesmen or women who came out after they'd gone through the apprenticeship program. But they see what's happening on the southern border. They saw biological men participating in female sports. They didn't want their kids being indoctrinated into the school systems and gender ideologies and theories. They cared about the kitchen table issues that the rest of us all care about each and every day. They care about providing for their family. They care about being able to put food in the refrigerator. They care about putting fuel in their vehicles and being able to get to the other side of the river and not having to drive an extra eleven miles out of the way because of crumbling infrastructure. Every time they turn on the TV, they see another billion dollars being sent to this country, or ten billion go to that country. And they're saying, ‘well, wait a minute, why do I see veterans who are homeless on our own streets? Why am I struggling to make ends meet? I work 40, 50 hours a week, and I can barely keep my lights on.’ And that's where the frustration, that's where the rubber met the road, and that's why I feel people were willing to give me a chance.
Washington Reporter:
Can you talk about immigration? We met at the southern border. How did that inform the closing months of the campaign?
Rob Bresnahan:
It totally changed my story, and I was able to speak from a position of authority, because I saw it with my own eyes. We were at the border at two o'clock in the morning. We saw a group of 50 or 60 people walk around the wall, surrender themselves to Border Patrol agents. And it really put a face to the problem, and it really became a humanitarian crisis. It's not a Republican issue. It's not a Democrat issue. We saw kids, 4, 5, 6, years old, being carried by their parents, being thrown into these different vans and then taken to the processing centers. But then we visited food pantries and food banks, and we visited the hospital systems, and Yuma was a very well-oiled machine. In 72 hours, the migrants, and they had over 600,000 border crossings in four years, and you saw 85,000 of them being kids that they have no idea where they ended up, but being able to speak from a position of seeing is believing and then finding their ways into our communities, and that's where things are really interesting is we saw someone specifically walk around the border, and be at a processing center the next day. And then when I flew back from Phoenix to Newark, that same person got on the airplane in the zone in front of me, and he had three young kids with him and a female traveling companion, but then I think about the senior citizens and we're knocking on their doors, and they're worrying about literally buying prescription medication, buying food, and heating their homes. You pray that those young kids who ended up in our communities find their way into an education system, but then it's our senior citizens paying school property taxes, paying for it, and you have to say, ‘whoa, enough is enough here.’ And not to mention the various different nationalities of the people that actually came in; we have no idea who they are, where they're coming from, what they're bringing, what they're doing, and to see it with your own eyes totally, totally changed my perception. You can see it on TV, but when you're there, at two o'clock in the morning with Dave McCormick, who was actually on our trip as well, it’s different. It became a part of my narrative through Election Day.
Washington Reporter:
Now that you've won, what are your priorities in the next two years to be able to deliver for your lifelong community that sent you to Congress?
Rob Bresnahan:
We have to deliver tangible wins here. The American people gave us a responsibility. Obviously we have to secure that border. That is first and foremost. And I'm very confident, within the first weeks of being in as a new member, that I'm very optimistic that the caucus here recognizes the significance of securing that border. Because we have to do that. Also, you have to make life affordable again. I'm a big believer that the biggest derivative or driver of inflation is energy costs. So changing the narrative on the vilification of natural gas, specifically in Pennsylvania, it creates 500,000 direct jobs, another half a million of indirect jobs. Fifty-two percent of homes in Pennsylvania are heated by natural gas. $45 billion payrolls are generated by natural gas from Pennsylvania, natural gas, and think that GDP is over $76 billion. So incentivizing our producers, finding ways that we can reinvest into our infrastructure systems and finding affordable housing mean that is a big problem, whether it's in Hazleton, Scranton, the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, affordability of housing, obviously, with just the escalation of raw material and inflation in which we're seeing. Obviously developers are producing these housing units, but it's not economical. And again, going back to energy, that is the biggest driver of inflation. Every single item you get comes from the back of a truck. Every piece of raw material is produced from some form of natural resource and energy. Getting energy under control is critical, but obviously reinvesting into America, reinvesting into northeastern Pennsylvania, whether that's broadband communication, ports, levies, freight transportation, the airports, recreations, public schools, and using the natural gas revenue to make those necessary reinvestments into our communities is a win-win for everyone.
Washington Reporter:
We're sitting in the NRCC. You were drastically outspent because you were running against a massively wealthy incumbent who was sitting on the Appropriations Committee. What lessons from the fundraising side from 2024 have you learned that are going to help you prepare for 2026 for your own reelection campaign when you're the incumbent?
Rob Bresnahan:
Certainly that does help. From in-district dollars, people were saying, ‘hey, Rob, I'm supporting you. I've known you a long time. I know you're gonna do a great job,’ and I really appreciate that. But obviously you can't sell a secret and you need to have the resources in order to advocate for what you're planning on doing and how you're gonna get it done. I never asked anybody for anything before in my life. I was actually always on the other side. I'd always try to support politicians or campaigns that I believe people were running for the right reasons, because they loved northeastern Pennsylvania, they loved our home, and they were truly going to be elected to office to make our lives better.
Washington Reporter:
And that included Matt Cartwright. Was that ever awkward?
Rob Bresnahan:
They tried to make that a big deal. They tried to make a lot of things a big deal. One day I'm a RINO, and the next thing you know, I'm being speculated on doing something extreme. I just figured I got hit from the right, I got hit from the left, and they just couldn't make up their minds as to what I was, other than just a guy from Northeastern Pennsylvania who wants to make his home a better place, naturally, that doesn't sound right. I did support both him and the guy that he was running against. And at one point I thought Matt did have the right ideas and the right philosophy. But then in 2022 the first vote that he took when he came back was against border security. And I said, ‘how can you do that? That is not what northeastern Pennsylvania needs.’ But going back to the fundraising, I'm not asking for Rob Bresnahan. I'm asking for the people of northeastern Pennsylvania and to save the country. And this is bigger than just me. And you could say that when you do support my campaign, or support me, I'm a contractor. We were able to do something very special with limited, finite resources by being very specific on how we message, how we reached our voters, and obviously good old-fashioned hard work by just physically being at every single event, taking advantage of every single earned media opportunity. Something that I got a lot of feedback on was our debate. I think our debate was on the 22nd, but it was a slow news day. There wasn't a lot going on, and a lot of people tuned into that debate, and what they saw was something new, someone with energy, someone running to make a difference, versus someone who referenced the D.C. beltway. And I remember saying, ‘I speak bulldozer. I don't understand what D.C. beltway is.’ And that's what people were very frustrated with time and time again. Everything was the same old, same old. And right now, people can't afford to have the same same old, same old. There needed to be something different. And I think with 77 million people voting for Donald Trump and Bob Casey losing to Dave McCormick and myself beating a multiple long decade incumbent, I think the people spoke.
Washington Reporter:
You were talking about a House Majority PAC ad that was pulled. What were your favorites ads? Did any from the NRCC or from CLF, or from other groups that were backing you make you say ‘that would convince me to vote for me’?
Rob Bresnahan:
Watching TV got tough. My fiancé is a news anchor for an ABC affiliate, and I just remember saying, ‘after Labor Day, you’re gonna have to send me the clips here.’ One day I walked to the mailbox and I learned that I'm against IVF. And I turned to Chelsea and I said ‘since when am I against IVF?’ Obviously the vote on the SAVE Act where he basically voted to allow illegal migrants to participate in US elections was big. He voted against Title IX protections. Actually the ad that my opponent ran towards the end of the election that I knew was great for us was him standing in front of a levee saying, ‘walls work.’ And ironically, that same levy four miles north of where he was, was something that he'd spoken about at the press conferences on that he was working on bringing the levee and those banks of the Susquehanna River in West Pittston and still aren't protected. He voted against funding the border wall seven separate times, and I had more people that reached out to me after that ad saying ‘that's not the reality here.’ And people saw through that. I'd say that I think CLF did an incredible job on their messaging, staying relevant, staying topical, because they got real, firsthand experience. They got firsthand, real people to testify. Jeff and Lynn were people from the district that I had not even really met, I never even knew them. I had no idea they were actually going to be in the ads. But the way that they spoke, and the way that they talked, it was authentic. And I think everything about our campaign was authentic, because it is what we were. We stayed above the belt. I can't say the same about the ads that aired against me. They were quite vicious. I had the philosophy that I have to be a part of this community, win, lose, or draw. And if you roll in the mud, you're going to play with pigs. So my philosophy was, let's litigate the reality. We never went down the idea of the way he became a lawyer, his personal success. I don't think personal success should be vilified. In fact, it should be incentivized, encouraged, let alone, going the other way. Unfortunately, those were the ads that they ran against me. One was saying was I started on third base, and I'm the first one to admit I started on base and I'm very blessed for that. To much is given, much will be required, but I certainly didn't start on third. I had to get myself to third and that was the dichotomy, and that was the difference.
Washington Reporter:
If you want to talk about someone who started on third base, one of your constituents is now soon-to-be-former senator Bob Casey. You represent Biden's ancestral hometown of Scranton. You represent where the TV show The Office, is based. I think that’s how most people found out about the city. Scranton is a symbol. It was a symbol in the 2020 campaign, and it was in 2024 while Biden was running. What should people understand about your community that Steve Carell and Joe Biden might not have accurately portrayed?
Rob Bresnahan:
Northeastern Pennsylvania is very old school. We're very parochial. Growing up, there was the Irish section, the Italian section, the Polish section, the Ukrainian section. You can look at Northeastern Pennsylvania and this district on a map, but I remember when the NRCC guys came up for the first time, and it's totally different to be on the ground and to understand the energy. We believe in God in northeastern Pennsylvania. From my building in downtown Pittston, you can see 13 different churches, and it's all different lineages, whether it's Methodist, Baptist, Roman Catholic. You used to be able to leave your doors unlocked for weeks. There used to be a siren that would go off and let you know when it's time to come home for a curfew. And that's how we all grew up. And obviously we're in a little bit of a different age, but understanding that 1959 is when the Knox mine disaster happened, which ended anthracite coal mining, that was what northeastern Pennsylvania was all about. But after anthracite mining kind of came to an end, we shifted to the garment industry. And then, once the garment industry came to an end after NAFTA, we were always soul searching for a purpose. Because of our geographical location, within 200 miles you can reach 51 million people. In six hours you can reach about 60 percent of the United States’ population within one day's drive. Now we started seeing distribution centers and warehousing, and there's a lot of other opportunities, hopefully down the pipeline, whether those are data centers, because of our accessibility to natural resources, we have natural gas, we have water, we have, for the most part, electrical distribution systems. Generation is obviously very important, and being able to transmit the energy is also very important. But with the right leadership and the right reinvestment, northeastern Pennsylvania can be a home to advanced manufacturing. We can be a home to providing Made in America products. Again, it's totally obtainable.
Washington Reporter:
This does beg the question, have you seen The Office?
Rob Bresnahan:
Absolutely, I went to the University of Scranton when The Office was at its height.
Washington Reporter:
Do you have a favorite episode?
Rob Bresnahan:
I can't say. That'd be like picking between my kids; I don't have any kids, I'm just recently engaged. We're actually working on a wedding, I want to clarify that. That'd be like choosing between uncles. I like when you look at the Easter eggs that are in the show. Froggy 101 is a local radio station. And then understanding the product placement that finds its way into the show, and the Welcome to Scranton sign, that is a sign that is on the Scranton Expressway. When they go to Cooper’s or Poor Richard’s Pub, those are real places. Poor Richard's Pub is in bowling alley; you would never think that from the side of the street, but you have to go through the bowling alley in order to get to Poor Richard's Pub. The Easter eggs and the symbols of tying it back to Scranton and then looking at it through the eyes of Hollywood, is what I really like to see.
Washington Reporter:
Have you given any thought to having any of these people come walk around Scranton with you?
Rob Bresnahan:
Some of them came to campaign for Harris. I'm not sure which ones, it was towards the end, but there will certainly be The Office merchandise in my office.
Washington Reporter:
As you look to 2026, Josh Shapiro was not picked as vice president for her. What are your thoughts on how you want to approach shifting from running with Biden and then Harris as president and vice president to a Trump midterm?
Rob Bresnahan:
As long as I govern and legislate the correct way, the way that I promised to run on the campaign, I’m confident that we'll be in positions to make tangible wins for northeastern Pennsylvania. I'm not worried about what may or what will be, or deciding to run, and these manufactured problems or challenges that we may have. But if I do the right thing for the people of northeastern Pennsylvania, day in and day out, like I plan on doing, people say, ‘oh, you have to run every two years.’ I think the Founding Fathers of the country wanted us to run as frequently as we do, to keep us accountable to the people that put us here, who put us here to represent them.
Washington Reporter:
What do you wish you knew when you were deliberating making this big decision, this life-changing decision that you learned over the course of the campaign that would have made your life easier, only giving you eight gray hairs instead of nine?
Rob Bresnahan:
Trust the people around you. Trust but verify. When you pull the team together for the right reasons, and the people believe in your mission and who you are, the same way that we're building out our constituency service teams, the same way we're building out our D.C. teams, you have to have the right ideological mindsets that are what's best for the people of the district. I never ran for a public office before, so this was all uncharted territory, and I described a campaign like skiing down a mountain and your goal was to just not hit a tree. Something that we did very well on was unforced errors. And not drastic problems, but controlling the controllables. And coming from the private sector, I was a lot more in control of my universe than I was of over what my opponent was doing or what he was saying, or what he was delivering, or what projects he was working on. Obviously, I didn't have any control over that, and it would drive me nuts, because it's like, ‘well, that's not true; that is not the reality here.’ But being focused on our controllables, running our campaign and focusing on our accomplishments, recognizing our strengths and minimizing our weaknesses was important.
Washington Reporter:
Bonus question: you're one of the first millennial Republicans elected to Congress. How does that inform how you want to approach this job? You're probably half Matt Cartwright’s age. Is that a significant thing for you to be blazing the trail for your generation?
Rob Bresnahan:
It's really exciting. I consider myself an old soul. I was given a lot of responsibilities.
Washington Reporter:
That's why I didn't realize you were born in 1990.
Rob Bresnahan:
To whom much is given, much will be required. When I came into my company, I was 19 years old with real responsibilities. I had to grow up fast. I went to the University of Scranton, but I was also responsible for over 50 people to be able to take care of their families. So sure, did I have a wonderful life and incredible opportunities? Yes, but I never really rested on my laurels. And whether it was a project, a real estate development objective, sometimes you don't recognize that you're a millennial, but I guess I am one because of a birth year, but it's exciting. It’s exciting to have a breath of fresh air, or someone new, and seeing other members, incoming members,-elect, that are also younger, that's really exciting.
Washington Reporter:
Awesome, thank you for your time we’re excited to see more of The Office in your office next year.