{"id":7218,"date":"2009-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/republican-desk-becomes-a-democrat-as-merkley-pays-tribute-to-hatfield\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:54","slug":"republican-desk-becomes-a-democrat-as-merkley-pays-tribute-to-hatfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/republican-desk-becomes-a-democrat-as-merkley-pays-tribute-to-hatfield\/","title":{"rendered":"La mesa republicana se convierte en dem\u00f3crata mientras Merkley rinde homenaje a Hatfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hace a\u00f1os, cuando Jeff Merkley era pasante del ic\u00f3nico Mark Hatfield de Oreg\u00f3n, la broma corriente era que el senador republicano alg\u00fan d\u00eda sacar\u00eda al joven e impresionable liberal de sus amarras dem\u00f3cratas al \u201cotro lado\u201d.<\/p>\n

Merkley y su familia de dem\u00f3cratas ac\u00e9rrimos siempre respondieron que ser\u00eda el idealista Merkley quien convertir\u00eda a Hatfield. La conversaci\u00f3n siempre provoc\u00f3 risas y la comprensi\u00f3n silenciosa de que un punto muerto estaba casi garantizado.<\/p>\n

Y lo fue durante m\u00e1s de 30 a\u00f1os, hasta la semana pasada, cuando Merkley se enter\u00f3 de que el escritorio personal que se le asign\u00f3 en el Senado es el mismo escritorio que una vez ocup\u00f3 su mentor, Hatfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo pude llevar a Hatfield al otro lado de la l\u00ednea\u201d, dijo Merkley muy complacido, \u201cpero ahora traje su escritorio\u201d.<\/p>\n

Un escritorio del Senado no es solo un mueble. Los 100 escritorios en el piso del Senado tienen un rico historia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cuarenta y ocho de ellos fueron construidos por el ebanista de Nueva York Thomas Constantine por $34 cada uno en 1819, despu\u00e9s de que el primer juego fuera destruido cuando los brit\u00e1nicos incendiaron el Capitolio en 1814. Se agregaron escritorios m\u00e1s nuevos cuando los estados se unieron a la uni\u00f3n y aparecieron nuevos senadores. Los cuatro construidos para Alaska y Haw\u00e1i en 1959 se construyeron en el Taller de Gabinete del Senado.
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Al igual que los legisladores que los utilizan, existen diferencias notables en la forma y dimensi\u00f3n de los escritorios. Cada uno refleja su posici\u00f3n en la disposici\u00f3n semicircular de la Antigua C\u00e1mara del Senado: los escritorios de los pasillos eran angostos y en \u00e1ngulo, mientras que los del centro eran m\u00e1s anchos y cuadrados.<\/p>\n

Dentro de cada escritorio hay m\u00e1s historia: los cajones est\u00e1n inscritos con los nombres de los senadores que los usaron.<\/p>\n

No todos los nombres fueron escritos personalmente. Los nombres de Daniel Webster, Henry Clay y John C. Calhoun aparecen en los cajones de sus escritorios, pero las firmas no son originales. Muchos nombres revelan una mano id\u00e9ntica, lo que sugiere que se reemplazaron los fondos de los cajones m\u00e1s antiguos y se volvieron a copiar los nombres, o que los miembros del personal, en lugar de los senadores, asumieron la responsabilidad de registrar a ciertos titulares. En las \u00faltimas d\u00e9cadas, los senadores se han adherido m\u00e1s a la tradici\u00f3n de tallar o inscribir personalmente los cajones de sus escritorios.<\/p>\n

Hace treinta y dos a\u00f1os, Jeff Merkley lleg\u00f3 por primera vez al Capitolio como pasante del entonces senador. Mark Hatfield. Los dos se han mantenido en contacto; Hatfield jurament\u00f3 a Merkley como presidente de la c\u00e1mara en la Legislatura de Oreg\u00f3n hace apenas dos a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n

Consciente de su conexi\u00f3n e historia con Hatfield, Merkley solicit\u00f3 formalmente el escritorio de Hatfield en enero cuando lleg\u00f3 a Washington como nuevo senador. Pero era un deseo que esperaba quedar incumplido.<\/p>\n

Debido a que Hatfield es republicano y Merkley dem\u00f3crata, el viejo escritorio de Hatfield estaba atornillado al piso en el lado derecho de la c\u00e1mara del Senado. A Merkley, como dem\u00f3crata, se le asignar\u00eda un asiento en el lado izquierdo de la c\u00e1mara. Por mucho que quisiera el escritorio de Hatfield, Merkley no estaba dispuesto a cambiar de partido para conseguirlo.<\/p>\n

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