Meet the woman steering Biden's bipartisan winning streak on Capitol Hill

UNITED STATES: The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure , gun safety and same-sex marriage to party-line bills tackling climate change and expanding health care coverage , it's a record President Joe Biden and Democrats on the ballot were all eager to tout on the campaign trail during the midterms.

But far from the spotlight is a woman who helped make all that happen: Louisa Terrell.

As the director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, Terrell, 53, leads a team that is the president's collective eyes and ears in Congress.

"Making sure we're responding, making sure we're being proactive, figuring out what's happening here in this building," Terrell told CNN, explaining her job while standing in front of the Capitol, where she spends a considerable amount of time even though she works for the White House.

She describes her role as a conductor for moving Biden's agenda through Congress.

"You want to be talking to committees, caucuses. Who's talking to leadership? Who are the up-and-comers? What's the floor action? What's running quickly? What's slowing down? And you need all these sort of tentacles out there, and then bringing that back every day."

But unlike an actual conductor who is front and center of an orchestra, Terrell operates very much behind the scenes.

The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marriage to party-line bills tackling climate change and expanding health care coverage, it's a record President Joe Biden and Democrats on the ballot were all eager to tout on the campaign trail during the midterms.