Nelly Decker: Communications director, House Judiciary Committee Democrats

Nelly Decker is a quintessential under-the-radar staffer who prizes being nearly un-Googleable.

But she has nonetheless been a pivotal player in some of Congress’s biggest battles — and will be central in many of the body’s coming clashes should Democrats retake the House.

“I have worked in a majority, then minority in Oversight, waged a battle against lies and nonsense, and [I’m] keeping that fighting spirit over here in Trump 2.0,” Decker told The Hill.

Decker, 39, followed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to the House Judiciary panel, leading up a communications shop among the most nimble on the Hill.

She was a key mind in crafting the Democratic response that attacked the Oversight panel’s impeachment inquiry into former President Biden.

Decker said her job requires “dousing” herself “with conservative media,” adding that when it came to the Biden impeachment her team “debunked every single thing they threw at the wall.” That investigation ended with a report, but no vote was ever brought to the House floor.

“My work is so notable behind the scenes that essentially we killed impeachment — the terrible impeachment — that a specific chair won’t stop saying our ranking member’s name, even when he departed that committee,” Decker said, a nod to Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.).

Raskin described Decker as having “a magnificent understanding” of the media landscape as well as an “exquisite sense of timing” for launching press releases and events.

“So I find her remarkable, and the thing that really impresses me about her is that there are some excellent comms people out there who are not necessarily masters of the content of what they’re communicating about, but she always makes sure that she totally understands the bill … or what have you,” Raskin said.

“I find her a commanding presence and totally unassuming at the same time.”

Raskin is known for lengthy letters and floor speeches reminiscent of his days as a law professor, while Decker is more to the point.

“We meet in the middle,” she said. Raskin gives “the education” while their social media feed tends more toward “a lot of quick explainers.”

But it was that rapid action that Decker said prompted Raskin to bring her along to the Judiciary panel, saying they could use “that same kind of conversation and messaging to debunk anything that comes our way, like attacks against the Constitution that we knew were coming from [President] Trump.”