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Selected Bios > G-L
Independent, subject matter experts who know how Washington works

Some of the people who have written for us or taught at previous TCN and CQ programs include:

G   Jim Garamone    Peggy Garvin    Beth Gaston    Robert Gee    Deanna Gelak    Don Gessaman    Joseph Gibson   Matthew Glassman     Martin Gold    Christopher Goode     Daniel Goure    James Green    Matthew Green    David Grimaldi

H   Thomas Hajduk    T.J. Halstead    Lou Hampton    David Hawkings    Robert Healy    Valerie Heitshusen   Bill Heniff    Dennis Hertel    James Hickey    Eleanor Hill    Jeff Hill    Scott Hodes     Jack Holt    Jack Howard    Bryan Hubbard    Al Hunt    Kathleen Humter

J   Kathleen Hall Jamieson    Kent Jenkins    Dennis Johnson    Philip Joyce

K   Martin Kady    Stuart Kasdin     Sheila Kast    Barbie Keiser    Deborah Kelly    Steven Keller   Jula Kinnaird    Jaculine Koszcuk    Kenneth Kraft    William Kristol 

L   Bill LaForge    Carol Laham    Matt Laslo   Thomas Lawhead    Susan Lawrence    James B. Lees    Michelle Lehman    Bob Levi    James Lightfoot     Vernon Loeb    Peter Loge    Bruce Lundgren    Megan Lynch    Holly Woodruff Lyons

  JIM GARAMONE

JIM GARAMONE is a reporter with American Forces Press Service. He has been covering the defense beat since 1976. Mr. Garamone served 13 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve.

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  PEGGY GARVIN

Peggy GarvinPEGGY GARVIN is an information consultant and author of Real World Research Skills: An Introduction to Factual, International, Judicial, Legislative, and Regulatory Research (TheCapitol.Net). She is also a contributing author for the Congressional Deskbook, published by TheCapitol.Net. She has worked with government information, libraries, and information technology over her 20-year career with the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service and with the private sector in Washington, DC. Peggy is senior editor for DocuTicker, a daily update of new reports from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks, and other groups, and edited the 2011 edition of Government Information Management in the 21st Century for Ashgate Publishing.

In 2011, Peggy Garvin was honored by the Special Libraries Association by being presented with the Dow Jones Leadership Award at SLA's annual conference.

She earned her Master of Library Science degree from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

  • See some of Peggy's favorite things about Washington, DC in "Faculty Favorites - Peggy Garvin."

Real World Research Skills Second Edition: An Introduction to Factual, International, Judicial, Legislative, and Regulatory Research, by Peggy Garvin


Real World Research Skills
By Peggy Garvin

 

 

 


Advanced Online Research Skills, 7 Capitol Learning Audio Courses

Advanced Online Research Skills Series
a 7 Course Series of Capitol Learning Audio Courses
with Peggy Garvin

Other Capitol Learning Audio Courses with Peggy Garvin:

  • Practical Web Research in a Nutshell

 

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  BETH GASTON

BETH GASTONBETH GASTON is the Executive Assistant to the Deputy Administrator, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Previously, Beth served in public relations at APHIS, the National Science Foundation, and the University of California, Riverside. She was an award-winning reporter for several newspapers and a copy editor for McClatchy News Service.

She co-wrote Chapter 11 and edited the 1st edition of Media Relations Handbook for Agencies, Associations, Nonprofits and Congress (TheCapitol.Net 2004).

She holds a BS in Biology and a BA in Science Journalism from the University of California, Riverside.

Media Relations Handbook for Agencies, Associations, Nonprofits and Congress, by Bradford Fitch, Foreword by Mike McCurry.


Media Relations Handbook for Agencies, Associations, Nonprofits and Congress

(First Edition)
By Brad Fitch
Foreword by Mike McCurry
Contributing Author: Beth Gaston

 

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  ROBERT N. GEE

ROBERT N. GEE (1956-2017) was Chief of Public Services for the Law Library of Congress. He provided legal research and reference assistance to the Law Library's congressional and public clients as a legal reference specialist for ten years before assuming the management of the Law Library's public service operations in 1994. He instructed seminars on legal research and legislative history research for congressional staff. He received his BA in political science and a JD from the University of Oklahoma, and a Masters of Law degree (LLM) from George Washington University.

  • See some of Bob's favorite things about Washington, DC in "Faculty Favorites - Robert Gee."

Researching Legislative Histories: Finding Legislative Intent in Bills and Committee and Conference Reports, Capitol Learning Audio Course

Researching Legislative Histories: Finding Legislative Intent in Bills and Committee and Conference Reports
a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with Robert Gee

Other Capitol Learning Audio Courses with Bob Gee:

  • Researching Federal Legislative Histories: Statutory and Code Research

  • Researching Federal Legislative Histories: Bills, Resolutions, Committee Hearings, and Committee Reports

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  DEANNA R. GELAK

Deanna GelakDEANNA R. GELAK has more than 20 years of policy and public speaking experience spanning the legislative, executive branch and private/nonprofit sector arenas. She is Founder and President of Working for the Future, LLC, a public policy firm that advises citizen leaders and organizational spokespersons on political communication strategies and policy issues.

Ms. Gelak is the youngest woman ever to be elected President of the American League of Lobbyists. She is widely respected for her work promoting the Lobbyists' Code of Ethics. Ms. Gelak has appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and she has promoted ethical lobbying and citizen involvement on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation and at the National Press Club.

Ms. Gelak designed the "mock Congress" for National 4-H which is still utilized today to educate high school students from across the nation. Her communications training method has been used to empower businesswomen in Afghanistan, Jordan, Morocco and Iraq. Her communications method has been endorsed by legendary entertainer and songwriter, Lee Greenwood, and praised and utilized by political communications strategist, Mary Matalin.

Ms. Gelak chaired the national Congressional Coverage Coalition, which successfully led the effort to apply labor and civil rights laws (including the Family and Medical Leave Act, OSHA and the overtime protections in the Fair Labor Standards Act) to members of Congress and their staffs for the first time in history. Previously members of Congress were exempt from the labor and civil rights laws that they had passed for the rest of the country.

Ms. Gelak is formerly the director of governmental affairs for the Society for Human Resource Management, a professional society with more than 175,000 individual professional members. She achieved certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), which reflects her expertise in human resource policy issues and she was selected to serve on a Bureau of National Affairs Advisory Board.

  • See some of Deanna's favorite things about Washington, DC in "Faculty Favorites - Deanna Gelak."

 

Lobbying and Advocacy, by Deanna Gelak


Lobbying and Advocacy
Winning Strategies, Resources, Recommendations, Ethics and Ongoing Compliance for Lobbyists and Washington Advocates

The Best of Everything Lobbying and Washington Advocacy

By Deanna Gelak

 

How to Work the Hill Like a Pro, Capitol Learning Audio Course

What Your Member of Congress Can Do For You: Gallery Passes, Flags, Presidential Greetings, and Help with Federal Agencies, Informed Citizen Series Capitol Learning Audio Course

How to Work the Hill Like a Pro
a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with Deanna Gelak

Other Audio Courses with Deanna Gelak:

  • What Your Member of Congress Can Do for You: Gallery Passes, Flags, Presidential Greetings, and Help with Federal Agencies

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  DONALD E. GESSAMAN

DONALD E. GESSAMAN  is a consultant to the EOP Fuondation. From 1967-1995, Mr. Gessaman worked in the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, National Security Division, which provides analysis and options on defense and intelligence resource issues for the OMB Director and the President. After entering as a budget examiner, he later became Navy branch chief, deputy division chief, and finally, deputy associate director of national security. From 1963-67, he worked at the Department of Defense.

Mr. Gessaman earned a BS in industrial management from the University of Cincinnati, an MS in industrial engineering from Stanford University, and studied National Security Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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  JOSEPH GIBSON

Joseph GibsonJOSEPH GIBSON is an attorney and the author of Persuading Congress. He has worked in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government. He has lobbied members of Congress and their staffs, advocated on behalf of the executive branch, and argued cases in federal and state courts.

He grew up in Waycross, Georgia, and then attended Yale University, where he received a bachelor's degree in political science. After graduation, he spent a year working as a staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He then went to Yale Law School, where he earned his JD degree.

After law school, he clerked for the Hon. R. Lanier Anderson, III, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Macon, Georgia. He then returned to Washington where he spent the next six and a half years as a litigator with private law firms.

In 1995 Mr. Gibson was appointed as an antitrust counsel for the House Judiciary Committee under Chairman Henry Hyde of Illinois. From there, he rose to chief antitrust counsel for the committee. In 2002 he became a deputy assistant attorney general representing the legislative interests of the Department of Justice.

In 2003, he returned to the House Judiciary Committee as its chief legislative counsel and parliamentarian under Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin. After two years there, he became chief of staff to Representative Lamar Smith of Texas. After the 2006 election, he became chief minority counsel of the committee. He returned to the private sector where he lobbied on antitrust, intellectual property, and other business issues at the law firm of Constantine Cannon LLC. Currently, he heads his own firm, The Gibson Group, where he provides legal and political advice on matters relating to government relations and litigation.

Persuading Congress: A Practical Guide to Parlaying an Understanding of Congressional Folkways and Dynamics into Successful Advocacy on Capitol Hill


Persuading Congress
By Joseph Gibson

Persuading Congress is a practical book, packed with wisdom and experience. For less than the cost of a cab ride to the airport, you can learn how to stop wasting your time when you visit Washington.

 

A Better Congress: Change the Rules, Change the Results: A Modest Proposal: A Citizen's Guide to Legislative Reform


A Better Congress: Change the Rules, Change the Results
By Joseph Gibson

A comprehensive look at the reasons that Congress does not work well and some real solutions that can make Congress work better.

 

 


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  MATTHEW GLASSMAN

MATTHEW GLASSMANMATTHEW GLASSMAN is an Analyst on the Congress at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. He focuses on areas related to congressional operations, legislative branch appropriations, congressional powers, congressional commissions, congressional history, member communications, and constituent casework. 

Mr. Glassman is the author of "Beyond the Balance Rule: Congress, Statehood, and Slavery, 1850-1859," in Paul Finkelman and Donald Kennon, eds., Congress and the Crisis of the 1850's; with Stephen Skowronek, eds., Political Action and Political Change: Agents, Leaders, and Entrepreneurs in American Political Development; and with Stephen Skowronek, "Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making," in Political Action and Political Change: Agents, Leaders, and Entrepreneurs in American Political Development, Matthew Glassman and Stephen Skowronek, eds.

He has taught in the graduate program at Catholic University and at Yale University, 2004 and 2005 summers.

He has a BA in Government, magna cum laude, with thesis honors from Hamilton College, a MA in Political Science, a MPhil in Political Science, and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. 

Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making
Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making

 

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  MARTIN B. GOLD

Martin GoldMARTIN B. GOLD is a partner with Capitol Counsel. Previously he was a partner with the law firm of Covington & Burling. In 2003, he served as Floor Advisor and Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. His tour with the Leader represented a return to Senate service after twenty years in the private sector. Mr. Gold was co-founder of The Legislative Strategies Group, LLC and his practice ranged widely, with an emphasis on sports law, health care, antitrust, communications, and taxation.

Mr. Gold is the author of Forbuidden Citizens and Senate Procedure and Practice: An Introductory Manual, a widely consulted primer on Senate Floor procedure, a subject on which he frequently lectures in offices of United States Senators and for Congressional Quarterly and TheCapitol.Net. He has also spoken frequently at George Washington University, American University, the University of Maryland, and to numerous domestic audiences on political and legislative subjects.

Further, he has been a guest lecturer at Moscow State University, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the State Parliament of Ukraine and the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly. Mr. Gold is also a consultant to C-SPAN on matters of Senate procedure.

During a 10-year period from 1972 to 1982, Mr. Gold worked in a variety of senior staff positions in the United States Senate, culminating as counsel to Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr. (R-TN). Mr. Gold began his career as a legal assistant to Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR) and later served as Republican Staff Director and Counsel to the Senate Rules Committee and as a professional staff member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Subsequent to his Senate experience, Mr. Gold was president of the lobbying firm Gold and Liebengood, which he co-founded in 1984. He joined the government relations firm, Johnson, Smith, Dover, Kitzmiller & Stewart, Inc. in 1995.

He was instrumental in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House passing expressions of regret for the Chinese exclusion laws: S. Res. 201 in October 2011, and H. Res. 683 in June 2012. In 2012, he was awarded the “Champion of Justice Award” by the Chinese American Citizens Alliance for his work on the project.

A graduate of the Washington College of Law at American University, Mr. Gold also served Of Counsel to Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, a Pacific Northwest law firm with principal offices in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.

Forbidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress - A Legislative History


Forbidden Citizens
Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress
A Legislative History

By Martin B. Gold

 

Legislating in the U.S. Senate, Capitol Learning Audio Course

Legislating in the U.S. Senate
a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with Martin Gold

 

 

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  CHRISTOPHER GOODE

CHRISTOPHER GOODECHRISTOPHER GOODE  is a founding partner of The Roosevelt Group, a government affairs firm with an emphasis on defense, homeland security, and intelligence issues. Previulsy he was a Policy Advisor with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP where he represented clients on issues including federal government appropriations, defense, military installation protection and enhancement, homeland security, space, energy, and information technology before Congress and the executive branch.

Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Goode represented public- and private-sector clients with defense and homeland security issues. He has a background in defense, aerospace and IT issues, having led the government relations and marketing efforts for Bombardier's Defense Systems Division and while serving as a Principal with SRA International.

His federal government experience includes his service as the Director of Administration and Operations for the 1995 Base Closure and Realignment Commission. He also served in the White House Military Office, the Joint Staff, the Navy Staff, the Navy Command Center, Fifth Fleet, and Naval Forces Central Command. His sea duty includes tours on the USS Mount Vernon and USS Fort McHenry.

Mr. Goode received his BA and was commissioned as a Naval Officer from the College of the Holy Cross. He received his MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

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  DANIEL GOURE

Daniel GoureDANIEL GOURE is a Vice President with the Lexington Institute, a nonprofit public-policy research organization headquartered in Arlington, VA, where he is involved in a wide range of issues as part of the institute's national security program. Previously he was the Deputy Director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he was responsible for a wide range of analyses involving U.S. national security decision making and military planning, defense industrial and technological issues, the future of conflict and warfare, and military strategy and operational art. He also participates in analyses of emerging security issues including the future peacekeeping and multilateral security initiatives in Europe and Asia.

Prior to joining CSIS, Dr. Goure spent two years in the U.S. government as the director of the Office of Strategic Competitiveness in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His responsibilities included identification and evaluation of new security and defense concerns, policy towards Russia and the newly-independent states, arms control and regional security.

Before entering government, Dr. Goure spent almost fifteen years in positions of increasing responsibility with several firms. During five years with SRS Technologies, where he was Director of Soviet Studies, he managed more than twenty projects for various agencies and departments of the U.S. government dealing with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Before joining SRS, Dr. Goure worked as a senior analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses, Science Applications International Corporation, R&D Associates, and System Planning Corporation specializing in then Soviet domestic and defense policy issues.

Dr. Goure has done extensive consulting and teaching. He has consulted for the Department of State and taught/lectured at Johns Hopkins University, the Foreign Service Institute, the National War College, the Naval War College, and the Inter-American Defense College.

Dr. Goure holds Masters and PhD degrees in international relations and Russian Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in government and history from Pomona College.

Charting a Path for U.S. Missile Defenses: Technical and Policy Issues

Charting a Path for U.S. Missile Defenses: Technical and Policy Issues
Averting the defense train wreck in the new millennium

Averting the defense train wreck in the new millennium
Air and Space Power in the New Millennium

Air and Space Power in the New Millennium
U.S. Naval Options for Influencing Iran

U.S. Naval Options for Influencing Iran
How Drones Are Changing Warfare

How Drones Are Changing Warfare

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  JAMES  S. GREEN

JAMES S. GREEN began his legal career with the Federal Government in 1970, and retired in June 2007, with over 37 years of legal and management experience. He served with the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury and, beginning in 1976, in progressively more responsible management and executive positions with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). He was appointed the first career Deputy General Counsel at OPM, responsible for legal analysis and litigation involving Federal human resource issues affecting over nine million Federal employees, retirees, and dependents. Before his retirement, he had direct responsibilities for legal issues involving Federal employee retirement, health benefits, group life insurance, long term care, flexible spending accounts, Federal pay and leave including basic pay, overtime pay, premium pay, law enforcement pay, and executive compensation.

Mr. Green was responsible for overseeing the legal issues involved in the successful privatization of the Federal civilian background investigations program. He was integrally involved in the implementation of civil services reforms arising from the Homeland Security Act and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004. Mr. Green also was responsible for OPM legal issues involving procurement and contracting, the Senior Executive Service, ethics, and the Combined Federal Campaign.

Mr. Green has a Bachelor of Science degree (cum laude) from Boston University and earned his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. He was appointed a member of the Senior Executive Service in 1986 and was awarded an SES Rank Award of Meritorious Executive by President George W. Bush in 2005.

Currently he serves as the Legal Advisor to the President of The Graduate School. He also serves as a Senior Advisor with Federal Management Partners, Inc., a management consulting organization and as a Senior Ethics Specialist for Ethos, LLC, an ethics consulting and education company.

Lawyers and Law Grads: Is a Career With the Federal Government in Your Future? How to Get a Law Job With The Federal Government

Lawyers and Law Grads: Is a Career With the Federal Government in Your Future? How to Get a Law Job With The Federal Government
a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with James S. Green

 

 

 

 

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  DAVID GRIMALDI

DAVID GRIMALDI is Executive Vice President for Public Policy at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Previously, he served as Senior Counsel with the Assistant Minority Leader, Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC). Previously, he was senior counsel at The Raben Group, where he advised clients primarily on intellectual property, copyright, and patent issues. Mr. Grimaldi previously served as legislative counsel to Representative Ed Towns (NY-10), where he focused mainly on legislation arising under the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. Prior to his time with Mr. Towns, Mr. Grimaldi was an aide to former Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo during his New York gubernatorial campaign.

A Washington, DC native, Mr. Grimaldi earned a Bachelor's Degree in English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, followed by law school at Catholic University in Washington, DC. Mr. Grimaldi is a member of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

  • See some of Dave's favorite things about Washington, DC in "Faculty Favorites - Dave Grimaldi."
Strategies and Tactics That Will Help You Impact Congressional Action, Capitol Learning Audio Course

Strategies and Tactics That Will Help You Impact Congressional Action
a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with Dave Grimaldi

 

 

 

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  T.J. HALSTEAD

T.J. HALSTEAD serves as the Deputy Director of CRS. Prevously, he was a legislative attorney in the American Law Division of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. He was one of CRS' primary analysts on constitutional and administrative law issues. Before joining CRS in 1998, Mr. Halstead served in the Kansas Office of the Attorney General, in the Criminal Litigation Division. He also worked in the Legal Division of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and was an intern in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mr. Halstead earned his BA and JD from the University of Kansas. He is a member of the Kansas and the United States Supreme Court bars.

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  LOU  HAMPTON

Lou HamptonLOU HAMPTON is president of The Hampton Group, Inc., a Washington DC-based firm specializing in presentation, media and crisis communication skills. A former marketing director and speech writer, Mr. Hampton has spent nearly 20 years rehearsing thousands of clients--from CEOs to customer service telephone operators, novice salespeople to experienced journalists in techniques for communicating under pressure. Mr. Hampton serves as a message consultant to several public and government relations firms, has advised state and national political campaigns, has coached journalists on their media appearances, and has spoken on communication-related topics to several professional associations.  His coaching techniques have been featured in the Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Washington Journalism Review and the Los Angeles Times.

 

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  DAVID HAWKINGS

David HawkingsDAVID HAWKINGS is a senior editor at Roll Call. He previously served as Congressional Quarterly's senior editor for legislative affairs and before that directed the magazine's budget, taxes, trade, appropriations, and congressional leadership coverage. From 1997-99, he was the managing editor of the CQ Daily Monitor, directing CQ's daily news report and online at CQ.com. Before coming to CQ in 1995, Mr. Hawkings spent six years as a correspondent in the Washington bureau of Thomson Newspapers. He began his journalism career as a reporter, columnist and assistant city editor during four years at the now-defunct San Antonio Light.

 

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  ROBERT HEALY

ROBERT HEALY worked for Congressional Quarterly from 1974 unitl 2013. He was the senior editor of CQ Today (formerly the CQ Daily Monitor), a daily report on congressional activity. Mr. Healy spent seven years as the managing editor of the Monitor, and was a senior editor in Congressional Quarterly's book department. Mr. Healy was the first editor of CQ's Federal Regulatory Directory and associate editor of the first edition of Politics in America, a reference book on members of Congress. Mr. Healy earned his BA in American Studies from George Washington University.

  • See some of Bob's favorite things about Washington, DC in "Faculty Favorites - Bob Healy."

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  VALERIE HEITSHUSEN

VALERIE HEITSHUSEN is an Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, where she works on legislative procedure and congressional structure. She also teaches graduate courses on public policy at George Washington University.

Her previous positions include Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri. She has published journal articles on Congress and public policymaking, and has also conducted and published research (funded by the National Science Foundation) on legislative representation in Westminster-style parliamentary systems. She received her BA and MA degrees from Rice University and her PhD in political science from Stanford University.

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  BILL HENIFF JR

BILL HENIFF JR is an analyst in American National Government with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, and an adjunct professor at George Mason University. He is a contributing author for the Congressional Deskbook and the Congressional Operations Poster, both published by TheCapitol.Net.  He received his PhD in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park.



Congressional Operations Poster
Budget Process Flowchart
by Bill Heniff Jr. 
 

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  DENNIS  HERTEL

Dennis HertelDENNIS HERTEL is Of Counsel with the Franklin Partnership. Previously, he served as Senior Counselor with The Livingston Group. He was a six-term former Democratic Member of Congress from Michigan. Since retiring from Congress in 1993, Mr. Hertel has engaged in government relations and private law practice, representing clients on a wide array of legislative matters including energy, the environment and natural resources.

During his congressional tenure, Mr. Hertel served on the Armed Services Committee for 12 years. He was Chair of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Research and Development. Mr. Hertel was also Chair of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and Outer Continental Shelf for six years, as well as serving on the subcommittees on the Coast Guard and the Panama Canal. He served on the former Select Committee on Aging and its subcommittee on Health. Mr. Hertel was elected vice chair of the Democratic Study Group and was a Democratic Caucus Regional Whip. He represented Congress as a NATO Assembly delegate.

Before his congressional service, Mr. Hertel served for three terms in the Michigan House of Representatives. While in the state legislature, he was Chair of the Judiciary Committee and on the Joint Committee on Michigan Port Development, the Special Committee on Child Abuse Prevention, and the Michigan Crime Prevention Task Force. He remains active in Michigan and national Democratic political campaigns.

Mr. Hertel is a founder and Vice President of the International Election Monitors Institute, is President of the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, and has served as vice president of the National Environmental Policy Institute. He is a member of the board for the Congressional Hunger Center and the Council for a Community of Democracies.

Mr. Hertel is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor of science degree, and of Wayne State University Law School.

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  JAMES HICKEY

JAMES HICKEY is Vice President of Government Affairs with Day & Zimmermann, where he is responsible for developing and implementing the company's government relations strategy and political agenda, as well as serving as the spokesperson and representative on major legislative issues affecting the company.

Prior to joining Day & Zimmermann, Mr. Hickey was with the Raytheon Company for 14 years. While there, he served as the Director of Congressional Affairs and was responsible for securing Congressional support and funding for Raytheon's munitions portfolio, Navy programs, and for Navy and Air Force systems.

Mr. Hickey spent four years on Capitol Hill, first as a legislative assistant to Congressman Herb Batemean, and subsequently, as a legislative assistant for Senator Pete Domenici.

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  ELEANOR HILL

Eleanor HillELEANOR HILL is a partner with the law firm of King & Spalding, Washington, DC office. She returned to King & Spalding in October 2003 following her service as the staff director of the Joint Congressional Inquiry on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As a member of the firm's Special Matters/Government Investigations Group, her practice focuses on corporate internal investigations, congressional and other government investigations, legislative and policy issues, compliance matters, and issues pertaining to homeland security and intelligence.

Ms. Hill has extensive investigative experience, in both the private sector and the executive and legislative branches of government. As staff director for the Joint Congressional Inquiry, she led the historic, bipartisan and bicameral investigative effort of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to determine what our Intelligence Community knew, or should have known, regarding the terrorist threat to the United States prior to the September 11th attacks. The extensive investigation and the hearings that followed culminated in the release of an 800-page report that identified numerous shortcomings in Intelligence Community counterterrorist efforts and nineteen recommendations for reform. Ms. Hill spent nearly seven months leading the team that negotiated the declassification of that report with the Intelligence Community.

Prior to her work with the Joint Inquiry, Ms. Hill was a partner at King & Spalding, representing corporate clients in various House and Senate investigations and in matters pertaining to compliance, corporate ethics and legislative matters. Her clients included companies in the defense, pharmaceutical, energy and health care industries.

From 1995 through 1999 she served as Inspector General to the Department of Defense, having been appointed to that position by President Clinton. As the Inspector General, she directed a wide range of audits and criminal and administrative investigations and established investigative policy throughout the Department, including the Military Departments. Recognized as a leader in the federal inspector general community, she served as chair of the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, as the co-chair of the Intelligence Community Inspectors General Forum, and as a Member of the Attorney General's Council on White Collar Crime. She was awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal by Secretary William Perry and the Bronze Palm to the Distinguished Public Service Medal by Secretary William Cohen.

From 1980 through February 1995, Ms. Hill was associated with the United States Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where she led numerous domestic and international Congressional investigations on such topics as organized crime and labor racketeering, drug enforcement, national security, export controls, fraud and abuse in federal programs and fraud and abuse in the insurance industry. As the Subcommittee's chief counsel and staff director, she led numerous efforts to draft and negotiate legislative proposals in a variety of areas. In 1987, she also served as liaison counsel for Senator Sam Nunn on the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition.

Ms. Hill is an experienced federal prosecutor and trial lawyer, having served both as an Assistant United States Attorney in Tampa, Florida and as a special attorney with the Organized Crime Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Hill is widely recognized for her expertise both in the public and private sector. She has testified on numerous occasions before various congressional committees in both the House and the Senate and has served as a featured speaker on congressional investigations in Congressional Research Service training for congressional Members and staff. Her experience includes numerous public speaking engagements and both national and international media interviews on issues related to investigations, homeland security, intelligence policy and counterterrorism.

Ms. Hill graduated, magna cum laude, from Florida State University and with high honors from the Florida State University College of Law. At Florida State, she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Law Review.

Preparing for Congressional Oversight and Investigation, Capitol Learning Audio Course

Preparing for Congressional Oversight and Investigation
a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with Eleanor Hill

 

 

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  JEFF HILL

Jeff HillJEFF HILL is a Director of Jacobs & Associates. Previously, he was a senior manager at The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE). Prior to joining CRE, he was a senior advisor at Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), where he served for some twenty-five years. His work at OIRA included reform of the regulatory system, regulatory planning and review under the host of applicable Executive Orders, and the development of federal information policy under the Paperwork Reduction Act. Mr. Hill's career has also included work in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and time on Capital Hill. He served as an adjunct professor of government at Georgetown University from 1987-1996.

He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

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  SCOTT HODES

SCOTT HODES spent over a decade working as an attorney for the federal government prior to entering private practice in 2003. Mr. Hodes worked for the Department of Labor, Department of Justice (Office of Information and Privacy), and the FBI. From 1998 to 2002 he was the Acting Unit Chief of the Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Section's Litigation Unit and was a Top Secret Classification Authority at the FBI. Mr. Hodes has been involved in thousands of FOIA and Privacy Act matters.  Mr. Hodes is a member of the American Society of Access Professionals and a contributing editor to a number of publications on matters dealing with government information policies and practices. His current practice focuses on civil matters, primarily on the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act.

He received his JD from Arizona State University and a BS in Accounting from Indiana University. He is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

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  CHARLES J. "JACK" HOLT

Jack HoltJACK HOLT is a recognized leader in successfully formulating, implementing and managing communication programs for very large organizations including both the Department of Defense and the U.S. Federal Government. He created, developed, and produced the DoD Bloggers Roundtable and DoDLive web communication concept, co-authored the OSD policy memorandum DTM 09-026 for the Responsible and Effective Use of Internet-based Capabilities, and is co-founder of the DoD All Services Social Media Council.

He is the Editor of Media Relations Handbook, 2e.

Jack has more than 25 years communication policy development and application experience, teaches at the graduate level, consults, and collaborates on how to effectively use the new and emerging media in meeting business needs including improving customer relationships, implementing change management and developing innovative organizational environments. He has more than 25 years direct experience as a leader, coach, teacher and mentor in policy analysis and development, communication and business strategy development, organizational design, knowledge management, and workforce training and development.

Jack had his own communication consulting firm, and was previously the Director for Policy Analysis for Blue Ridge Information Systems, adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University, and a member of TheCapitol.Net's faculty. He also taught at the NATO School and has taught sessions on Communication, Journalism and New Media strategies and tactics at the Defense Information School and the Naval Post Graduate School. He was a member of the PRSA Counselors to Higher Education Committee and the 2009 Chair for the PRSA National Capital Region Public Affairs and Government Committee.

Media Relations Handbook for Government, Associations, Nonprofits, and Elected Officials, by Bradford Fitch, Jack Holt Editor


Media Relations Handbook for Agencies, Associations, Nonprofits and Congress

By Bradford Fitch
Editor, Jack Holt

 

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  JACK HOWARD

Jack HowardJACK HOWARD is senior vice president of the Congressional and Public Affairs Division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Previulsy, he was president of Wexler Walker Public Policy Associates, a government affairs firm that provided strategic counseling, direct lobbying, coalition building, and grassroots communications services to corporations associations, non-profits and government clients.

Mr. Howard served as deputy assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs from 2001 until January, 2003. As second ranking official in the White House legislative affairs operation, he played a key role in working with senior White House staff and Cabinet officials to secure enactment of major parts of the President's legislative agenda. He previously served as a special assistant for legislative affairs for President Herbert Walker Bush.

Prior to coming to the White House, Mr. Howard worked as a senior strategic and policy advisor to several House and Senate Republican Leaders. He served as deputy chief of staff to House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. He served in senior staff positions for Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Mr. Howard is a graduate of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.

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  BRYAN HUBBARD

Bryan HubbardBRYAN HUBBARD has been a communications professional since 1991, with experience in leading government and private company internal and external communication programs. As Deputy Comptroller for Public Affairs at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, he provides strategic counsel on media, employee communications, and public affairs programs and technologies.

He has provided similar counsel as Deputy Director for Corporate Communications for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, as Director of Corporate Communications at software/business solution firms, as Executive Producer of a successful Internet media firm, and as a member of the Secretary of the Air Force's public affairs team.

Mr. Hubbard holds a bachelor's in English from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master's in Communication from Arizona State University. He completed the Harvard Kennedy School's Senior Executive Fellows program in March, 2008.

  • See some of Bryan's favorite things about Washington, DC in "Faculty Favorites: Dining and Places - Bryan Hubbard."

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  AL HUNT

Al HuntAL HUNT is a columnist for Bloomberg News, and served as the executive editor for Bloomberg News in Washington. Previously he was the Washington Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, where he was a journalist for 35 years. He was the recipient of the William Allen White Foundation's national award in 1999.  For 11 years, Hunt wrote the weekly column, "Politics & People" and was a member of the board of Ottaway Newspapers and president of the Dow Jones Newspapers Fund.

Mr. Hunt served as a panelist on CNN's The Capital Gang, NBC's Meet the Press, and PBS' Washington Week in Review, as well as a political analyst on CBS Morning News. He is co-author of the American Enterprise Institute's The American Elections of 1980, The American Elections of 1982, The American Elections of 1984, and the 1987 Brookings Institution's Elections American Style.

Mr. Hunt earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Wake Forest University.

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  KATHLEEN HUNTER

KATHLEEN (Kate) HUNTERKATHLEEN (Kate) HUNTER is U.S. Editor for Bloomberg Politics in London. Previously, she served as the Senate leadership reporter for CQ Roll Call, where she covered legislation and nominations as they moved through the chamber, focusing on the nexus of politics and policy as well as Democratic and Republican leadership strategies. Ms. Hunter was integral in CQ's coverage of Congress' recent efforts to pass a health care bill, and in July, 2009, she wrote a live blog documenting Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. Ms. Hunter also has written about legal matters involving members of Congress, and covered the 2008 trial of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. Previously, she covered transportation and infrastructure for CQ.

Prior to joining CQ in April of 2006, Ms. Hunter was a staff writer for Stateline.org, where she covered state tax and budget policy as well as state politics. She holds a bachelor's degree is journalism and mass communication and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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  KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON

Kathleen Hall JamiesonKATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communicationa at The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. She is the author and co-author of nine books including: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy (Oxford, 1992) as well as Packaging the Presidency, which received the Speech Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Book Award and Eloquence in an Electronic Age, which received the Winans-Wichelns Book Award. Her most recent book is Spiral of Cynicism: Press and Public Good.

Dr. Jamieson is an expert on political campaigns. During the 1996 general election she served as a commentator - on the debates for CBS News, on advertising in The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and on the discourse of the campaign for National Public Radio's Weekend Edition and CNN's Inside Politics. She is also the recipient of many fellowships and grants including support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Ford Foundation along with several others.

unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
The Interplay of Influence: News, Advertising, Politics, and the Internet

The Interplay of Influence: News, Advertising, Politics, and the Internet
Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words

Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words
The Institutions of American Democracy: The Press

The Institutions of American Democracy: The Press
The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication

The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication

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  KENT JENKINS, JR.

KENT JENKINS, JR.KENT JENKINS, JR. is Vice President of Communications for EnViva.  Previously he was with Amerigroup Corporation, and he was a  Managing Director in the Media Practice of Burson-Marsteller, who specialized in crisis communications, international issues management and media relations. A former political journalist who spent more than a decade at The Washington Post and U.S. News and World Report, Mr. Jenkins has extensive communications experience in the fields of public policy, technology and healthcare.

In the crisis communications and issues management fields, Mr. Jenkins has led a team that assisted the U. S. Postal Service after  anthrax was discovered in the mail system in October 2001. Mr. Jenkins served as senior media strategist on all anthrax-related matters and continues to advise the Postal Service on broad range of issues. In 2003, the Public Relations Society of America awarded the anthrax team its highest honor, the Silver Anvil for the nation's best overall public relations campaign. The anthrax team also swept the industry's three top citations for crisis management in 2003: the Silver Anvil, the Sabre Award and the PR Week Award.

Mr. Jenkins leads a team that has assisted Duke University in regard to a mistake in organ transplant surgery that led to the death of 17-year-old Jessica Santillan in February 2003. A Forbes magazine feature story hailed Duke's crisis communication effort as a "PR coup" and PR Week magazine cited Duke as one of "Five Communicators We Listened To" in 2003.

Mr. Jenkins also served as senior media strategist for The Coca-Cola Company, advising the company on a wide range of business issues in Latin America, Africa and Europe. And he assisted a major European financial institution on multinational litigation.

In the healthcare field, Mr. Jenkins has represented a wide range of pharmaceutical companies and healthcare service organizations. He has provided media counsel to numerous clients on regulatory and congressional matters, including efforts to include specific treatments in the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs. He developed a media campaign that helped defeat harmful government regulations related to organ-transplant surgery.

In the technology field, Mr. Jenkins served as Washington spokesman for Cisco Systems Inc. from 1999 through 2001. During that time he was in charge of public-policy communications. He developed media strategy for Cisco President John Chambers regarding Mr. Chambers' extensive participation in the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign and a successful California education reform initiative that Mr. Chambers headed. He also planned successful media campaigns for several new technology products.

Mr. Jenkins' work as a Washington journalist included coverage of many national and statewide political campaigns and Congress. While at The Washington Post he reported extensively on figures as diverse as Iran-contra figure Oliver North and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. For two years he edited a staff of political reporters covering the District of Columbia government headed by then-Mayor Marion Barry. At U.S. News and World Report he was a Senior Writer covering national politics and Congress.

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  DENNIS W. JOHNSON

Dennis JohnsonDENNIS W. JOHNSON is Professor Emeritus at George Washington University. Previously, he served as associate dean of the Graduate School of Political Management and director of the Master of Arts in Legislative Affairs program at the George Washington University. His research interests include campaigns and elections, the role of interest groups in campaigns and the profession of campaign management. He is also a distinguished author; his latest work is No Place for Amateurs: The Professionalization of Modern Campaigns. Before joining George Washington University in 1992, he was the owner of Johnson Research Associates, a research-oriented campaign consulting firm that provided services to Democratic candidates. Prior to that, he was chief of staff to Congressman Norman Sisisky of Virginia from 1985-88, and served as coordinator of government affairs for Virginia Power 1983-85.

   

Campaigning for President 2016: Strategy and Tactics

Campaigning for President 2016: Strategy and Tactics
Democracy for Hire: A History of American Political Consulting

Democracy for Hire: A History of American Political Consulting
Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century: Activism, Big Data, and Dark Money

Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century: Activism, Big Data, and Dark Money
Political Consultants and American Elections: Hired to Fight, Hired to Win

Political Consultants and American Elections: Hired to Fight, Hired to Win
Routledge Handbook of Political Management

Routledge Handbook of Political Management

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  PHILIP JOYCE

Phil JoycePHILIP JOYCE is Senior Associate Dean and a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Prior to Maryland, he was a Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University. His research primarily focuses on the U.S. federal budget and the use of performance information in the budget process. He is the author of two books--Public Budgeting Systems (8th edition--with Robert D. Lee and Ronald Johnson) and Public Performance: Why Management Matters (with Patricia Ingraham and Amy Donahue), in addition to more than 40 articles and book chapters.

Professor Joyce has 12 years of public sector work experience, including five years each with the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and the Illinois Bureau of the Budget. He has consulted internationally, both as an individual and with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, in the People's Republic of China, Latvia, Slovenia and Mexico.

He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

The Federal Budget Process, Capitol Learning Audio Course

The Federal Budget Process
a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with Phil Joyce

 

 

 

Public Budgeting Systems

Public Budgeting Systems
 
The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking

The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking
 

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  MARTIN KADY

Martin KadyMARTIN KADY is editor of Politico Pro. Previously, he was congressional editor for Politico and has also served as a congressional reporter, deputy Congress editor and author of The Huddle, Politico's early morning congressional news digest. He joined Politico in July 2007, seven months after the company launched. Kady also spent five years at Congressional Quarterly, where he covered congressional leadership, intelligence, foreign policy and homeland security. He did earlier reporting stints at the Washington Business Journal, the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina and Potomac News in Woodbridge, Va.

Prior to CQ, Mr. Kady spent three years covering the boom and bust of the Washington area's telecom and technology industry. He also spent three years as a reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina, and three years at the Potomac News in Woodbridge, Virginia. He has a foreign affairs degree from the University of Virginia.

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  STUART KASDIN

Stuart KasdinSTUART KASDIN is a Member of the Goleta (CA) City Council. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University. His research focused on governance questions, including public institutions' design and management, and governmental budgeting.

Stuart Kasdin worked at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for over 11 years, focusing on the agencies in the Department of Agriculture. His primary responsibility at OMB was in overseeing the agencies' budget requests and subsequently, assessing program implementation and administration, and conducting policy analyses of government programs in agriculture and the environment. As a senior program examiner, he was extensively involved in preparing policy recommendations and in drafting legislation.

 Kasdin received a PhD in Political Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. For his dissertation, supported by the National Science Foundation, he used survey experiments to examine how voter decision making changes, as candidate characteristics are varied. The research has implications for understanding both vote choices and political accountability. Previously, he obtained Masters Degrees in Agricultural and Resource Economics, as well as International Agricultural Development, with a focus on Project Design and Management, from University of California, Davis.

A former Peace Corps Volunteer (Ecuador), Prof. Kasden he has worked at the Freedom from Hunger Foundation and World Bank, with extended residences in India, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Mexico.

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  SHEILAH KAST

Sheilah KastSHEILAH KAST is the host of On The Record on WYPR, the public-radio station based in Baltimore, which focuses on Maryland politics, policy, science, history, arts and culture. Previously, she was the host of Maryland Morning on WYPR.

Ms. Kast learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News, where she worked as a Washington correspondent for fifteen years. Her reporting ranged from the White House to Congress to the historic 1991 coup attempt in Moscow, which signaled the end of the Soviet Empire. Her concentration during most of her reporting life has been on the economy and workplace, and how they affect people's everyday lives. She began her career at The Washington Star newspaper, where she covered energy and financial regulation and other business issues.

Her first public-broadcasting venture was done in association with BusinessWeek magazine in the late 1990s. Ms. Kast launched and hosted a weekly national public television show, This Week in Business, on which she analyzed breaking developments in business, interviewed business leaders and discussed trends in personal finance.

Public radio listeners have frequently heard her host NPR's Sunday morning magazine, Weekend Edition Sunday. She has also substituted for Diane Rehm.

Ms. Kast lived in Romania for two years when her husband served as U.S. ambassador there. After returning to the United States, she covered the Washington aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks for CNN.

How the Media Works and How to Work the Media, Capitol Learning Audio Course

How the Media Works and How to Work the Media
a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with Sheilah Kast

 

 
Dracula Is Dead: Travels in Post-Communist Romania

Dracula Is Dead: Travels in Post-Communist Romania
 

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  DEBORAH P. KELLY

Deborah KellyDEBORAH P. KELLY is a Partner with the Manatt law firm. Previously she was a partner at Dickstein Shapiro LLP, joing that firm in 1988, and served as the firm's Deputy General Counsel and a member of its Executive Committee. Ms. Kelly focuses her practice on civil litigation with emphasis on all aspects of employment law. She defends employers against wage and hour class action suits, regularly counsels companies in matters concerning employment, conducts training in all aspects of EEO compliance and Human Resources (HR) issues, drafts employee policy manuals and represents companies against employment claims up to and including jury trial litigation. As head of the Firm's Employment Practice, she directed the development of Dickstein Shapiro's innovative and patent-pending PolicyPartnerSM Web-based service, which provides Dickstein Shapiro's clients with "one-stop" desktop access to compliance information related to a company's HR policies, procedures, guidelines, and forms. Ms. Kelly received her BS, magna cum laude, from The University of Vermont (1974).

She received her MA in political science (1977) (Thesis: The Politics of Nonvoting) and her PhD in political science (1982) (Dissertation: Rape Victims' Perceptions of Criminal Justice) from The Johns Hopkins University, where she received the James McCoy Prize (1977) and the James Hart Fellowship (1978). She received her JD, summa cum laude, from American University, Washington College of Law (1988), where she was the recipient of the Mussey Prize for her scholastic average (1988).

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  STEVEN KELLER

Steven KellerSTEVEN KELLER was a faculty member at the George Washington University in the Political Communications Program from 1975 to 2012. He taught courses in history and criticism of American public address, political oratory and speech writing, and argumentation and debate. He has provided communication training and consulting services to presidential appointees, national trade associations, and governmental agencies. and conducted scores of workshops and training programs focusing on congressional testimony for a wide range of clients including: Brookings Institution, Department of Energy, Department of State, Immigration & Naturalization Service, Smithsonian Institution, and the U.S. Coast Guard. The Office of Personnel Management handbook for preparing Congressional testimony is based on the training program Professor Keller designed.

 

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  JACKIE KOSZCZUK

JACKIE KOSZCZUKJACKIE KOSZCZUK is the Public Information Officer at Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Previously she was the editor of the Almanac of American Politics, published by National Journal, and before that she was the editor of Politics in America, CQ's guide to Congress and its members, and an editor of CQ.com. She covered Capitol Hill as a journalist for more than 15 years, including a stint as the national congressional correspondent for the Knight Ridder newspaper chain's Washington bureau. Previously, she was a senior writer for CQ Weekly magazine, where she wrote about the internal dynamics of the leadership and the impact of money on politics. Ms. Koszczuk also was an editor for the magazine, overseeing the defense and foreign policy section. From 1988 to 1994, she was a correspondent in the Washington bureau of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she wrote about House Speaker Jim Wright and ethics in government. She has been a reporter for The Daily Herald in Chicago and for the Kankakee Daily Journal in Illinois.

Ms. Koszczuk has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting on Congress in 1998. In 1993, she received the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Amon Carter Award for best feature writing, and in 1989, the Dallas Press Club award for best government/political reporting. In 1984, she was named best feature writer by the Chicago Press Club.

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  KENNETH A. KRAFT

KENNETH A. KRAFT is Director, Legislative Affairs - Appropriations, for Boeing. He has served as Appropriations Counsel and Legislative Director with the Office of Rep. David L. Hobson (R-OH). From 1971-77, he served as a Legislative Assistant to Sen. Joseph M. Montoya (D-NM); from 1977-92, Mr. Kraft served as Appropriations Counsel to Rep. Lawrence Coghlin (R-PA); and from 1999-2000, he served as Counsel to Rep. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (R-NJ).

Mr. Kraft graduated from the University of Maryland with an AB in British literature and art history and The George Washington University Law School.

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  WILLIAM KRISTOL

Bill KristolWILLIAM KRISTOL is editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, a weekly journal of politics and ideas based in Washington, DC. Mr. Kristol is a regular on ABC's This Week; and he also appears often on Good Morning America, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and the Charlie Rose Show. Washingtonian Magazine recently called Mr. Kristol "the hottest pundit in town."

Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol was chairman of the Project for the Republican Future where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. Prior to that, he served during the Reagan and Bush Administrations as Chief of Staff to Education Secretary William Bennett and then to Vice President Dan Quayle. Before moving to Washington in 1985, Mr. Kristol taught at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, and at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Kristol's writing in the fields of political philosophy and American Politics has appeared in journals such as the Chicago Law Review, Commentary and the Public Interest.

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  WILLIAM LaFORGE

WILLIAM LaFORGE is President of Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. Previously, he was the principal of his own government relations and lobbying firm in Washington, DC, and, earlier, a member of law and government relations firms in the nation's capital. A registered lobbyist for more than two decades, he specialized in federal government relations, and represented businesses and other organizations with public policy interests before the United States Congress and federal executive branch agencies. For more than 40 years, Mr. LaForge has been involved with the public policy arena at local, state, and federal levels.

On Capitol Hill, Mr. LaForge served as senior legislative counsel to Republican and Democratic lawmakers in both houses of Congress. He was chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, and culminated his government career as Chief Legislative Counsel and Chief of Staff to United States Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS). Previously he served as Congressional Liaison for the Peace Corps and as a legislative assistant to Congressman David Bowen (D-MS).

Mr. LaForge earned a BA in History from Delta State University; a JD from the University of Mississippi School of Law; and his LLM in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University; and he studied European and International law at Cambridge University. He has served as National President of the Federal Bar Association, and currently serves on the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Presidents Council.

Testifying Before Congress


Testifying Before Congress
By William N. LaForge

Testifying Before Congress is the practical guide to assist witnesses and their organizations prepare and deliver Congressional testimony. For use by anyone or any organization called to testify before a committee of Congress, and for those who are providing assistance in preparing the testimony and the witness.


Preparing for Congressional Oversight and Investigation, Capitol Learning Audio Course


Tips, Tactics & Techniques for Writing Congressional Testimony

a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with Bill LaForge

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  CAROL LAHAM

Carol LahamCAROL LAHAM is a partner in the Washington, DC office of the law firm Wiley Rein LLP. Ms. Laham counsels clients and litigates on compliance with federal, state and local election laws, the Ethics in Government Act, House and Senate Ethics, state ethics laws, the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 and its state counterparts and the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

 

 

The Federal Election Commission's Final Rules on Bundling and The Executive Branch Rules on Gifts, Capitol Learning Audio Course

The Federal Election Commission's Final Rules on Bundling and The Executive Branch Rules on Gifts
a Capitol Learning Audio Course
with Carol Laham

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  THOMAS J. LAWHEAD

THOMAS J. LAWHEAD is s Chief, CSAF F-35 Integration Office of the Air Force. He previously served as Chief, Weapons System Division, Legislative Liaison. He retired from the Air Force as a Colonel. Mr. Lawhead entered the Air Force in 1983 as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and has served in a variety of operations and staff positions throughout his career. He has served as an instructor pilot, flight commander, assistant operations officer, operations officer, squadron commander and Group commander for various fighter units, as well as staff positions in the USAFE Air Operations Squadron and in the programs division of the Air Staff. Mr. Lawhead has extensive operational and combat experience as an instructor pilot and evaluator in the F-16.

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  SUSAN LAWRENCE

Susan LawrenceSUSAN LAWRENCE is Director of George Mason University's Writing Center. Susan has taught courses in professional writing, public rhetorics, and research methods including ethnography and discourse analysis.

Her publications include "Responsibility in Perpetrators' Accounts in the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings," solicited for Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse Analyses of Rhetorical Talk and Text, an edited collection under review by John Benjamins; "Amnesty Decisions and Responsibility for Human Rights Violations in the South Africa TRC Hearings," National Communication Association Conference 2005 (November), Boston; "Tracking a Literate Practice Across the Disciplines: The Rival Hypothesis Stance in Biology and History" (2nd author with Linda Flower and Desiree Cook); and Learning to Rival: A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry, Linda Flower, Elenore Long, and Lorraine Higgins.

Ms. Lawrence graduated from the College of William and Mary (BA, English 1982) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA English 1993). She received her PhD in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005.

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  JAMES B. LEES

James B. LeesJAMES B. LEES is a nationally recognized trial attorney and communications consultant who owned and operates Hunt & Lees law firm in Charleston, WV, where he practiced law as well as provided communications consulting services to businesses and attorneys throughout North America.

Mr. Lees is a former Deputy District Attorney in Pittsburgh, PA, where he successfully prosecuted 44 first-degree murder cases and 6 death penalty cases. Litigating both civil and criminal cases in private practice throughout the United States since 1984, Mr. Lees has now tried over 250 jury trials to verdict.

He consulted frequently throughout North America on persuasive communications for businesses, political candidates, and attorneys. A frequent lecturer on the use of psychology and focus groups to formulate persuasion strategies, Mr. Lees has lectured in 26 states throughout the United States as well as the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. He has appeared on ABC Television's Good Morning America, anchored a state-wide radio talk show, taught persuasion techniques at Harvard Law School, and written a monthly newspaper column for a state-wide newspaper.

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  MICHELLE LEHMAN

Michelle LehmanMICHELLE LEHMAN joined the National Association of Broadcasters in 2006 and serves as executive vice president of Marketing. Previously, she was Vice President of Public Affairs for the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA), a nonprofit trade association representing beer distributors across the nation, where she was responsible for outreach to national print, broadcast and radio media. She served as the NBWA's spokesperson on issues such as promoting responsible beer consumption and discouraging alcohol abuse, the substantial economic contribution of beer distributors and the beer industry as a whole, and the potential health benefits of moderate beer consumption. Additionally, Lehman produced and distributes audio and video public service announcements featuring elected officials, public opinion leaders and celebrities encouraging safe and responsible alcohol consumption.

Prior to joining the team at NBWA, Lehman served as press secretary to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee under the leadership of former Senator Fred Thompson (TN), assisting the Committee during the Enron investigation and passage of legislation to create the Department of Homeland Security.

Lehman also served as associate director of technology policy issues at Dittus Communications, a Washington, DC-based public relations firm, supporting clients with strategic media relations to bolster their public policy initiatives on Capitol Hill and with federal agencies.

Lehman spent several years as press secretary to Representative Bob Goodlatte (VA-6), assisting her hometown Congressman during the Clinton impeachment hearings and on matters of technology, class action reform and all issues involving the House Judiciary and Agriculture Committees.

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  BOB LEVI

Bob LeviBOB LEVI has toiled in the vineyards of legislative and political affairs for over a quarter century. For twenty-two of those years, he has hung his shingle on Capitol Hill, serving Congress and the postal community.

Bob is the National Association of Postmasters of the United States' Director of Government Relations. At NAPUS, Bob spearheads postmaster legislative advocacy on and off Capitol Hill, as well as directs NAPUS' political activities. Before assuming this position, Bob Levi worked for six years as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs at the National Association of Letter Carriers.

Prior to his tenure at the NALC, Bob worked on Capitol Hill. During those years, he served as Legislative Director of two House Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittees. In addition, Bob, at different times, was Legislative Director and Legislative Assistant to Representative Gary Ackerman (NY).

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  JAMES R. LIGHTFOOT

James LightfootJAMES R. LIGHTFOOT is founder of Lightfoot Strategies in Texas. Previously, he was a senior policy advisor, Federal Government Relations, with the Washington, DC, office of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. Before that, he was vice president of Forensic Technology Inc., a high tech, international company that provides solutions to crime laboratories for solving gun related crimes. Prior to that, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the third district in Iowa from 1984 until he voluntarily retired in 1996. While in Congress, he served on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Subcommittee on Aviation, and also as chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government, and served on the Subcommittee on Transportation, and on the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations.

Mr. Lightfoot served in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1964. Some of his past occupations include being a police officer Tulsa, Oklahoma, a commercial broadcaster, a commercial pilot, and flight safety counselor for the Federal Aviation Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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  VERNON LOEB

Vernon LoebVERNON LOEB is the Managing Editor of the Houston Chrncicle. Prior, he was the Metro Editor at the Washington, Post, and previously Deputy Managing Editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Previously he covered the U.S. intelligence community and national security issues on the national staff of The Washington Post. During that time, he wrote extensively about the Central Intelligence Agency, numerous issues effecting the broader intelligence community and a series of breaking news events involving U.S. intelligence: the bombing of the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, the CIA's role in the Wye peace accord, the Kindred Spirit investigation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Prior to joining The Washington Post, Loeb was a reporter on the metropolitan staff after working as a reporter, bureau chief and foreign correspondent for 16 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. Loeb covered four Philadelphia mayors and was the newspaper's City Hall bureau chief from 1985-1989 and 1992-1994. Between the stints at City Hall, Mr. Loeb was The Inquirer's Southeast Asia correspondent from 1989-1992. Based in Manila, he covered events such as the Tiannenmen Square massacre in China and the normalization of U.S. relations with Vietnam. Mr. Loeb also worked on a team of reporters covering the Persian Gulf War and Iraq's missile attacks on Tel Aviv and wrote extensively from the West Bank.

Mr. Loeb graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  

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  PETER LOGE

Peter LogePETER LOGE has over 20 years of experience in communications including a presidential appointment at the Food and Drug Administration and senior positions for Sen. Edward Kennedy and three members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

He has led and advised a range of campaigns and organizations, put the first Member of Congress on the internet, lobbied for “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” served as a Senior Policy Advisor for health care in the U.S. House during the debate over the Affordable Care Act. His eclectic career also includes a solo-show of his sculpture in a Washington, DC gallery, appearances as a political satirist on National Public Radio, and his book “Soccer Thinking for Management Success: Lessons for Organizations from the World’s Game” is due out in summer 2018.

Prior to joining the full-time faculty at the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, Loge served as a senior advisor to the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the Obama administration, a presidential appointment. In this role, he developed and helped lead the strategic communication efforts for some of the top White House and FDA health priorities including the Cancer Moonshot, the Precision Medicine Initiative and combating the opioid crisis.

From 2013 – 2015, he was the first vice president for external relations at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) where his portfolio included congressional relations, intergovernmental affairs, communications, development and the Global Peacebuilding Center. He was also part of the organization’s senior management team and the interim liaison to the Institute’s board. Before USIP, Loge was the founder and principal at the legislative strategy firm Milo Public Affairs LLC, where his clients ranged from AmericaSpeaks and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” to the World Wildlife Fund and WickedCoolStuff.

In 2009, he took a leave of absence from Milo Public Affairs to serve as a senior adviser to former Rep. Steve Kagen M.D., a Democrat from Wisconsin, on health care reform. Peter helped Rep. Kagen, a second-term Democrat from a Republican district, shape and promote his health care agenda. Peter also managed the Congressional Business Owners Caucus, a group of over 50 Democratic Representatives who owned businesses before coming to Congress.

Before launching Milo Public Affairs he was a senior vice president at M+R Strategic Services, a national public affairs and political consulting firm. At M+R, Loge directed the media relations team and provided strategic counsel to a wide array of clients including the Save Darfur Coalition, Human Rights First, and the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors. Before joining M+R, he served as the first Director of The Justice Project, which helped redefine the national death penalty and criminal justice debate.

Loge has extensive experience in communications and political strategy including serving as a regional field director for the Concord Coalition, as the chief of staff, press secretary and campaign manager for Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from California, director of constituent services to former Rep. Sam Coppersmith, a Democrat from Arizona, and deputy to the chief of staff to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts. Peter managed Sherman’s first re-election campaign, made Coppersmith the first member of Congress with a presence on the internet in 1993, and, while working for Senator Kennedy, coordinated the first online chat with a federal elected official.

Loge was an adjunct instructor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University for more than a decade before joining the faculty full time.

Over his two decades in politics, Peter created the first internet presence for a member of Congress, coordinated the first online chat with a federal elected official, was a Chief of Staff in the House during the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, served as a senior advisor on health care to one of the only Democratic doctors in the House during the 2009 health care debate, and has advised everyone from America’s Funniest Home Videos, to Oxfam America, to WickedCoolStuff.com.

Over the years he has been a political satirist on National Public Radio and the BBC World Service, a guest commentator on RT, has been published in everything ranging from a law review, to the Journal of the Caucus of Producers Writers & Directors, to the Hill newspaper. He also appears in the award winning political documentary, "Split: A Divided America."

He is a graduate of Emerson College, and holds graduate degrees from Syracuse University and Arizona State University.

  • See some of Peter's favorite things about Washington, DC in "Faculty Favorites - Peter Loge." Also see his favorite Books and Movies about Washington.
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  BRUCE LUNDEGREN

BRUCE LUNDEGREN currently serves as an Assistant Chief Counsel for Advocacy at the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy. The Office of Advocacy oversees federal agency compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act, a law that requires federal agencies to assess the impact of their regulations on small business and to consider less burdensome alternatives. As such, Mr. Lundegren works closely with federal agencies, business and trade groups, and the White House's Office of Management and Budget to ensure that the voice of small business is heard within the regulatory process. His areas of responsibility include occupational safety and health, transportation, and homeland security.

Prior to joining the Office of Advocacy, Mr. Lundegren served as Director of Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and as Regulatory Counsel for the National Association of Home Builders. Before that he worked in the private practice of law.

Mr. Lundegren received his BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his law degree from the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. He is a member of the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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  MEGAN LYNCH

MEGAN LYNCH is an Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process at the Congressional Research Service (CRS), where she provides Members of Congress and their staff with analysis on legislative and budget procedures. Her primary area of expertise is the congressional budget process. Much of Ms. Lynch’s work centers on assisting Members of Congress in the development and analysis of legislative and budget process reform proposals.

Ms. Lynch conducts dozens of seminars a year for Members and congressional staff and has written extensively on the legislative and budget process. Her reports for the Congress include: The Budget Resolution and Spending Legislation; Rules and Practices Governing Consideration of Revenue Legislation in the House and Senate; Statutory Limits on Total Spending as a Method of Budget Control; Adopting a Long-Term Budget Focus: Challenges and Proposals; and Statutory Budget Controls.

Ms. Lynch has been with CRS since July of 2007. She holds a BS in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland and an MA from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Ms. Lynch was a Presidential Management Fellow, and prior to coming to CRS, worked for Maryland state and local government, including the Maryland state legislature.

 

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