Voice of the House Ends Four Decades of Service

• By Bree Hocking
• Roll Call Staff
• April 30, 2007, Midnight

Longtime House Reading Clerk Paul Hays, a devout Republican, likes to joke that he voted for Bill Clinton the first time he ran for president — of Georgetown University’s freshman class in October 1964. “I haven’t voted for him since,” quipped Hays, who attended college with the future commander in chief.