Jeffrey Joseph Trandahl (born September 15, 1964) served as the thirty-third Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was elected Clerk on January 6, 1999, and held office until November 18, 2005.
After leaving office, he was appointed CEO and executive director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a non-profit conservation organization created by Congress in 1984.
Trandahl was the Clerk of the House during the time in which allegations against then-Representative Mark Foley by former House pages are said to have occurred. Trandahl confronted Foley at that time since it is the Clerk of the House's responsibility to effectively administer the House page system.[3] He took great care to assure the safety of the pages.[2] Later, he testified before the House Ethics Committee that he had warned the Speaker's office several times of his concerns about Congressman Foley's behavior toward them.[6]
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^Zeleny, Jeff (October 20, 2006). "Former Clerk Tells Panel He Alerted Speaker's Office to Foley Concerns". The New York Times. Retrieved August 20, 2009. Mr. Trandahl, who left his job as House clerk last year to take a nongovernment position, has told friends that he occasionally raised alarms about Mr. Foley's advances toward high school students who had come to Washington to work on Capitol Hill. He has told former colleagues that neither he, nor anyone else, knew about the explicit e-mail exchanges between Mr. Foley and former pages. People with knowledge of Mr. Trandahl's testimony said Mr. Trandahl corroborated previous testimony that top aides to the speaker, including his chief counsel, Ted Van Der Meid, had been advised of complaints about Mr. Foley for at least three years.
