Primary Responsibilities of the Gallery and Gallery Staff:

• Provide reporters with working office space including telephones, television, computers, & printers

• Provide reporters with a message service

• Catalog reference materials, including a history of the Senate and Senate activities

• Maintain a daily log of Senate Floor activities (available on our website)

• Serve as a liasion between reporters and Senate officials/staff

• Set up press tables at committee hearings

• Secure testimony and information for reporters from committee hearings

• Answer reporters' questions about Senate activities, legislation, process and history

• Assist Reporters' Executive Committee and the Senate in credentialing reporters to the Gallery