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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:
ROBERT G. RABBEN served from
1979 until his retirement in May, 2002, as the assistant general
counsel for legislation at the Department of Energy. In that
position, Mr. Rabben drafted legislation and coordinated the
Department's annual legislative program and congressional testimony
by executive branch witnesses. He organized and drafted major
legislative proposals including the Reagan administration's
"Competitiveness" proposal and the Clinton administration balanced
budget legislative proposals in 1995 through 1997. In 1992, Mr.
Rabben developed and presented, under the auspices of the American
Bar Association, a workshop on legislative drafting for the
officials of the Albanian government.
In 2000, Mr. Rabben served as the
acting general counsel for the National Nuclear Security
Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. From 1975-79, he served
as the deputy director, Legislative Reference Service in the Office
of General Counsel, Secretary of Defense. Prior to that, he served
in several capacities within the Department of the Navy, including
congressional liaison and legislative specialist.
Mr. Rabben holds a JD from George
Washington University School of Law.
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RICK RAMPONI is a legislative librarian for the Washington, DC office of the law firm of Latham & Watkins. Previously, he served for eight years as the reference librarian in the U.S. Senate Library. He also served as reference librarian at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and the law firm of Williams & Connolly.
Mr. Ramponi earned his BA from Fordham University, and his MLS from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
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 DAVID K. REHR is president
and CEO of
the National Association of Broadcasters, a position he assumed in
December, 2005. Prior to this position, Mr. Rehr was president
of the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA).
Mr. Rehr is featured in Beachum's
Guide to Key Lobbyists as one of the 125 most influential lobbyists
in Washington, DC. He was the youngest of those selected for this
honor. He has been featured in every major U.S. media outlet
including the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and
ABC World News Tonight. In 1996, Mr. Rehr was one of five
Washingtonians featured in the "The People to See" by the Boston
Globe Magazine. Previously, the NBWA was ranked as the 19th most
influential lobbying group in Washington, DC by Fortune magazine.
Under Mr. Rehr's leadership, in 2001, Fortune magazine ranked the
NBWA the 8th most powerful group in the nation's capitol.
Prior to joining NBWA, Mr. Rehr
served as director for federal governmental relations, U.S. House of
Representatives, for the National Federation of Independent Business
(NFIB). NFIB is the nation's largest small business advocacy
organization. He also served as executive assistant to
Representative Vin Weber (R-MN), and as a professional staff member
on the House Small Business Committee.
Mr. Rehr holds a PhD in economics
from the George Mason University. He has an MA in economics from
George Mason University and a BS in business administration from
Saint John's University.
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CATHARINE RICHERT has been the Congressional Quarterly agriculture reporter since 2005. She's written about everything from the stalled Doha trade talks to farmers who are trading carbon credits to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Before coming to CQ, Catharine covered the Food and Drug Administration for FDA Week. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and has a bachelors degree in environmental sciences and history.
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 COKIE ROBERTS
was a special correspondent for ABC News, regularly appearing on
"This Week with David Brinkley," "Nightline," and other ABC programs.
She was also a senior news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR), and her reports and
news analysis can be heard regularly on NPR's newsmagazine "Morning Edition."
Ms. Roberts has been a congressional correspondent since 1981, and is especially noted for
her comprehensive reports on voter concerns during presidential and congressional election
campaigns. In 1990, Ms. Roberts won the esteemed Edward R. Murrow Award from the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public radio's highest recognition of excellence, and
was the first broadcast journalist to win the Dirksen Award for Distinguished
Reporting on Congress. She is a former president of the Radio and Television
Correspondents Association. Her freelance articles have appeared in the
Atlantic
Monthly, Commonwealth, New Leader, and The New York Times Magazine.
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 STEVEN V. ROBERTS has been a
journalist for more than 35 years, covering some of the major events
of his time, from the antiwar movement and student revolts of the
60s and 70s to President Reagan's historic trip to Moscow in 1988
and nine presidential election campaigns. After graduating from
Harvard magna cum laude in 1964, he joined the New York Times where
his 25-year career included assignments as bureau chief in Los
Angeles and Athens, and as Congressional and White House
correspondent.
Mr. Roberts was a senior writer at
U.S. News for seven years where he is now a contributing editor. Mr.
Roberts and his wife, TV journalist Cokie Roberts, write a
nationally-syndicated newspaper column and are contributing writers
for USA Weekend. In February of 2000 they published From This Day
Forward, an account of their 35-year marriage, as well as other
marriages in American history. The book spent seven weeks on the New
York Times best-seller list.
A well-known commentator on many
Washington-based TV shows, Mr. Roberts also appears regularly on the
ABC radio network and as substitute host on National Public Radio's
Diane Rehm Show. As a teacher, he lectures widely on American
politics and the role of the news media. Since 1997 he has been the
Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George
Washington University, where he has taught since 1990. His many
honors include the prestigious Dirksen Award for covering Congress,
the Wilbur Award for coverage of religion and politics, the Bender
prize as one of GW's top undergraduate teachers, and four honorary
doctorates. He's been named a Father of the Year by the Father's Day
Council and awarded the Public Service Sector Award by the Aspen
Institute.
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MORTON ROSENBERG ,
a graduate of New York University (BA, 1957) and the Harvard Law School (LLB, 1960), is a Specialist in American Public Law with the American Law Division of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. He has been with the Library since 1972.
Mr. Rosenberg specializes in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law and process, congressional practice and procedure, and labor law, and in the problems raised by the interface of Congress and the Executive which involve the scope of the congressional oversight and investigative prerogatives, the validity of claims of executive and common law privileges before committees, and issues raised by the presidential exercise of temporary and recess appointment power.
He is the author of a number of journal articles on separation of powers and administrative law issues including "Whatever Happened to Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking?: A Review, Assessment, and Proposal for Reform," 51 Adm. L. Rev. 1051 (1999); "Congress's Prerogative Over Agencies and Agency Decisionmakers: The Rise and Demise of the Reagan Administration's Theory of the Unitary Executive," 57 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 627 (1989); "The Airports Authority Case: Separation of Powers Revisited," CRS Review (September 1991) (with Johnny Killian); and "Beyond the Limits of Executive Power: Presidential Control of Agency Rulemaking Under Executive Order 12,291," 80 Mich. L. Rev. 193 (1981). Mr. Rosenberg was named the recipient of the 2004-2005 Mary C. Lawton Award for Outstanding Public Service by the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice in November 2005.
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 DAVID H. ROSENBLOOM is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the American University. Dr. Rosenbloom has also taught at the
University Kansas, Tel Aviv University, the University of Vermont,and Syracuse
University's Maxwell School. He has over one hundred and fifty published works focusing
upon public administration, law, administrative theory and history, bureaucratic politics
and public personnel issues. In 1992, he was appointed to the Clinton Gore Presidential
Transition team with responsibilities for federal personnel policy and the Office of
Personnel Management. In 1969, he was an American Society for Public Administration Fellow
in the U.S. Civil Service Commission.
Dr. Rosenbloom received his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago
in 1969. In 1992, he received the Distinguished Research Award of the National Association
of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and the American Society for Public
Administration (NASPAA/ASPAA). In 1994, he received an honorary Doctors of Law Degree from
Marietta College (Ohio) and the Outstanding Scholar Award of the School of Public Affairs
at American University.
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 TOBY ROTH left Congress after eighteen years in 1997 to form The Roth Group, a government affairs consulting firm focusing on high-tech, information technology and telecommunications issues. Roth is well known for his work for and commitment to exports and the high tech/ telecommunications industry. He is the former Chairman of the International Economic Policy and Trade Subcommittee.
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MANIK ROY is the Director of Congressional Affairs for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, where he manages communication between the Center and the U.S. Congress. Dr. Roy has twenty-four years of experience in environmental policy, having worked, before coming to the Pew Center, for Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Representative Henry A. Waxman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Defense Fund.
Dr. Roy holds a PhD in public policy from Harvard University. He also holds an MS in environmental engineering and a BS in civil engineering, both from Stanford University.
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ALAN RUTENBERG
is a partner in Foley & Lardner's Washington, DC office. As a member of the firm's Antitrust Practice and International Business Industry Team, Mr. Rutenberg's practice includes antitrust, commercial litigation, and regulatory law.
In the antitrust area, Mr. Rutenberg counsels clients in a variety of areas, including mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property. He also litigates antitrust matters. He regularly represents clients before the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice on Hart-Scott-Rodino and other matters. He also is active in representing clients with regard to international antitrust aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Rutenberg graduated from Transylvania University
(BS) and Harvard Law School. He is a member of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law and currently serves as co-editor-in-chief of its Mergers and Acquisitions Newsletter.
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 MARK J. ROZELL is professor of public policy and director of the Masters in Public Policy program at George Mason University. Prior to this appointment in 2004, he was professor and chair of the department of politics at The Catholic University of America. Dr. Rozell is the author of nine books on various aspects of American politics including "Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush" (2004) and "Executive Privilege" (2002). He is the editor of fourteen additional books, most lately being "Considering the Bush Presidency" (2004).
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 PAUL RUNDQUIST is a former congressional operations specialist with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. For over three decades, he helped conduct parliamentary training seminars for members of Congress and their staffs. After the September 11 attacks, he worked with the officers and committees of the Congress planning for emergencies and catastrophic events affecting congressional operations. Until his retirement in March 2005, he worked closely with the leaders of both parties on the issues of filibuster reform, especially on those affecting judicial nominations. Dr. Rundquist additionally served on the staffs of several
House and Senate committees studying reorganization of the House and Senate, including the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress.
Dr. Rundquist has served as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University and Catholic University of America. He has traveled and worked extensively for international organizations on developing constitutions and new legislative rules in new democracies. From 1996-1998, he was a Fulbright professor of politics at Warsaw University and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He served as a visiting professor of politics at the University of Halle/Wittenberg under a grant provided by the German federal government.
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ELIZABETH RYBICKI is an Analyst in American National Government at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress who specializes in the legislative process. She was previously a Research Fellow at The Brookings Institution and a Specialist in Congressional History and Political Science at the National Archives and Records Administration.
She earned a BA in History from Dartmouth College and is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. Her academic publications focus on the history of House and Senate procedures, and her doctoral dissertation is on the development of bicameral resolution procedures since 1789.
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JAMES V. SATURNO
is a Specialist on the Congress with the Government
and Finance Division of CRS. His principal areas of responsibility are
congressional history and procedure, especially the Federal budget
process and budget process reform. He holds a BA from the University at
Albany (SUNY) and an MA from the University of Rochester, where he was
also an instructor prior to coming to CRS in 1986. In 1993, he was
detailed as a consultant on the budget process to the Joint Committee on
the Organization of Congress. Mr. Saturno's work has appeared in The
Encyclopedia of Congress, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Public
Budgeting and Finance.
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EARLE ST. A. SCARLETT
was director of political training at the
Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Training Center after several years of
immersion in Balkan affairs. He was political advisor to Carl Bildt, the high
representative for the Civilian Implementation of the Dayton Peace Plan, from January to
June 1996. He was also deputy head of International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia
Border Monitoring Mission in Belgrade from May 1995 to January 1996. Mr. Scarlett also
served as political officer at Embassy Belgrade from 1990 to 1992. As a foreign service
officer since 1976, he has been posted as a political officer twice to Brazil and once to
the Philippines. In the State Department he has served as a foreign service examiner, as
the China desk officer, and as the Somalia desk officer. He also served in Cameroon. He
was a Dean Rusk Fellow at the Institute of Law and Diplomacy, Georgetown University. Prior
to entering the Foreign Service, Mr. Scarlett served in the US Army in France, and
subsequently as a social worker in New York and Chicago. He also served as an assistant
professor of political science, and director of the African-American Studies Center at
Loyola Marymount University.
Mr. Scarlett was educated at The City College of New York, La Sorbonne (Paris), the
University of London, and UCLA.
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 DAVID SCHAFFER
retired from federal service in February, 2004, and since that time opened his own legal and lobbying practice specializing in lobbying, legal and strategic advice involving aviation matters before Congress and the executive branch.
Mr. Schaffer joined the staff of the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation (now the Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure) in 1984 as Assistant Minority Counsel for the Subcommittee on Aviation. He became the Minority Counsel of the Aviation Subcommittee in 1992 and Majority Counsel in January 1995. Mr. Schaffer was involved in all the issues of the Aviation Subcommittee including air safety, airline competition, international air service, war risk insurance, Airport Improvement Program, air traffic control modernization, FAA reform, and oversight of the FAA and NTSB.
Mr. Schaffer played a key role in the formulation of the Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR 21), Federal Aviation Authorization Act of 1996, Aviation Medical Assistance Act, Pilot Records Improvement Act, the Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act, the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, and Vision 100 – Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act, among others.
Mr. Schaffer worked as an attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the Civil Aeronautics Board from 1978 to 1984, specializing in rules, legislation, and litigation involving small community air service, international air service, consumer protection, and charters.
He received his BA in political science from Colgate University and his JD from Boston University Law School.
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 JACK L. SCHENENDORF joined
Covington & Burling in March 2001, as Of Counsel. His practice
concentrates on transportation and legislation, with a particular
focus on legislative strategy, legislative procedure, and the
federal budget process.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Schenendorf served on the Bush/Cheney
transition where he was chief of the Transition Policy Team for the
U.S. Department of Transportation and other transportation-related
agencies. He was responsible for reviewing all transportation
policies and issues for the incoming Administration.
For nearly 25 years, Mr. Schenendorf
served on the staff of the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure of the U.S. House of Representatives under 7
different Republican committee leaders. He was chief of staff from
1995 to 2001 when the 75-member committee – the largest in the
history of the Congress – held 314 hearings and passed 265 bills
through the House, of which 115 were enacted into law. Mr.
Schenendorf advised the committee on all legislative matters,
including the major efforts to change the budgetary treatment of the
transportation trust funds. These efforts led to enactment of the
landmark Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA 21) in
1998 and the Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century
(AIR 21) in 2000, as well as House passage of the Truth in Budgeting
Act in 1996.
In addition, Mr. Schenendorf
specialized in legislative and parliamentary procedures and the
federal budget process. For a number of years he taught the
legislative procedures course offered to Republican staff on behalf
of the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives.
Mr. Schenendorf received a JD from Georgetown University Law School
in 1975, and a BS in Biology from Union College, NY in 1966. From
1967 to 1972, Mr. Schenendorf served in the U.S. Navy in Admiral
Rickover's nuclear submarine program. After completing nuclear power
and submarine training, he served on the USS James K. Polk (SSBN
645) as Reactor Control Officer and the USS Tullibee (SSN 597) as
Communications Officer. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant.
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 ALLEN SCHICK is a professor of public policy in the School of Public Affairs at the
University of Maryland and serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Dr. Schick frequently works with the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (World Bank). He taught at Tufts University and has served with the Urban
Institute and the Congressional Research Service.
As a senior specialist in American National Government with the Congressional Research
Service of the Library of Congress, Dr. Schick assisted Congress with the development and
implementation of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. He continues to advise members of
Congress and congressional committees on topical budget issues. In addition, he has
assisted more than twenty states in developing budget and financial management systems and
directed a study of budget practices in industrial democracies for the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Dr. Schick conducted an examination of health
care policy and authored several studies pertaining to health policy, including
"Controlling the Uncontrollable: Budgeting for Health Care in an Age of
Mega-Deficits" and "Health Policy: Spending More and Protecting Less." He
also conducted a study of the budgetary system of New Zealand on behalf of its government.
Dr. Schick is the author of numerous studies at all levels of government dealing with
budget systems and policies, public management, and government finance. His books include
Congress
and Money (1980), The Capacity to Budget (1990), and The Federal Budget
Process: Politics, Policy, Process (2000).
Dr. Schick is the recipient of the Brownlow Award for the best book on American
political institutions, the Hardemann Prize for the best book on Congress, and the Waldo
Prize of the American Society for Public Administration for lifetime contributions to the
field of public administration.
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The Federal Budget
By Allen SchickPaperback, 345 pages ISBN: 0815777353 (The Brookings
Institution, 2007)
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 PATRICIA SCOTT SCHROEDER is president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the national trade organization of the U.S. book publishing industry, a post she assumed on June 1, 1997. Mrs. Schroeder represented Colorado's First Congressional District (Denver) in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years. She left Congress undefeated in 1996. For a brief period of time in 1986, she considered running for President but withdrew for lack of funds despite the fact that she ranked third in a Time magazine poll.
From January to June 1997, she held the rank of professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In addition to heading AAP, Mrs. Schroeder also leads New Century/New Solutions, an out-of-the-box think tank, for the Institute for Civil Society in Newton, Massachusetts, and serves on the Marguerite Casey Foundation Board of Directors and the American Bar Association's Center for Human Rights Executive Committee. She also serves on various advisory committees dealing with literacy and issues affecting children and women.
The mother of two young children at the time she was elected to the House, Mrs. Schroeder went on to serve 12 terms. During her tenure in the House, she became the Dean of Congressional Women, co-chaired the Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues for 10 years, and served on the House Judiciary Committee, the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and was the first woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee. As chair of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families from 1991 to 1993, Mrs. Schroeder guided the Family and Medical Leave Act and the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act to enactment in 1993. She was also active on many military issues, expediting the National Security Committee's vote to allow women to fly combat missions in 1991 and working to improve the situation of military families through passage of her Military Family Act in 1985.
A leader in the cause of education and a champion of free speech, Mrs. Schroeder was never a single-issue candidate. As Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property she was one of the most knowledgeable members of Congress on copyright issues and a strong advocate for protecting intellectual property rights and for reinforcing the creative incentive for developing intellectual property. She continues this advocacy in her leadership of AAP.
Mrs. Schroeder is the author of two books: Champion of the Great American Family (Random House, 1989) and 24 Years of House Work...and the Place Is Still a Mess (Andrews McMeel, 1998). She is in the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
Mrs. Schroeder graduated magna cum laude in 1961 from the University of Minnesota while working as an insurance claims adjuster to support herself through college. Mrs. Schroeder went on to Harvard Law School, one of only 15 women in a class of more than 500 men. She earned her JD in 1964 and moved to Denver, Colorado, with her husband, James, who in 1972 encouraged her to challenge an incumbent Republican for the House seat representing Colorado's First Congressional District.
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 JUDY SCHNEIDER is a specialist
on the Congress in the Government Division of the Congressional
Research Service (CRS), Library of Congress. She is also an adjunct
scholar at the Center for Public Policy Education at the Brookings
Institution. Ms. Schneider is the former head of the Congressional
Organization Section of CRS. Prior to coming to CRS in 1979, she
served as research coordinator of the Senate Ethics Committee's
Korean investigation, and as a professional staff member on the
Senate Select Committee to Study the Senate Committee System and the
House Commission on Administrative Review.
Ms. Schneider is the author of over
100 papers on congressional organization and operations, and the
co-author of the Congressional Deskbook published by TheCapitol.Net. She has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences and professional
society annual meetings, and frequently meets and lectures students,
foreign visitors, executive branch personnel and congressional
staff. She serves as a faculty member at the conference for new
members of Congress.
Ms. Schneider has a BA and MA from
American University and has done additional graduate work at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
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 GERALD F. SEIB is The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau chief, and also writes the paper's Capitol Journal column. After receiving his BA in journalism from the University of Kansas, Mr. Seib went on to write for the Dallas bureau of
The Wall Street Journal in 1978. In 1980, he transferred to the Washington, DC bureau and covered the Pentagon and the State Department.
In 1982, he became a news editor responsible for the Journal’s
national political coverage of Washington around the country. In 1985, Mr. Seib and his wife, Journal reporter Barbara Rosewicz, were transferred to Cairo to cover the Middle East. While living in Cairo, Seib, along with 56 other journalists, was invited to tour the Iran-Iraq warfront. On the night of January 31, 1987, he was detained by plainclothes policemen in Tehran, Iran, and taken to Evin Prison where he was accused of spying for Israel. Suddenly and inexplicably, after four days of interrogation, he was released. They returned to Washington, DC in 1987 where he covered the White House and reported on diplomacy and foreign policy for the Journal.
He was part of the team from the Journal that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in the "breaking news" category for its coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
In 2005, Mr. Seib received the William Allen White Foundation Award, presented annually since 1950 to journalists who exemplify the ideals of William Allen White, and in 1998
he won the Merriman Smith award, which honors coverage of the presidency under deadline, and the Aldo Beckman award for coverage of the White House and the presidency. He received the 1990 Gerald Ford Foundation prize for distinguished reporting on the presidency. In 1992, he was awarded the Weintel Prize by the Georgetown University Institute for Diplomacy for his coverage of the Gulf War.
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MICHAEL R. SHANNON is a public relations and advertising consultant with corporate, government and political experience around the globe. He founded
MANDATE: Message, Media & Public Relations, a political/public affairs consulting firm in 1980. Since then, the firm has participated in over 70 elections on three
continents and a handful of islands.
As consultant to The Israel Project (TIP), he has worked closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in their efforts to
promote a positive image of Israel. Shannon has also conducted media and message training workshops for MFA and Israeli Defense Forces spokespersons along with representatives of various non-governmental organizations. During
the UN Court trial in The Hague, Shannon worked closely with the MFA in its international media outreach.
Shannon teaches message development, crisis communication and public relations for The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga Command College, conducts the political advertising and message section of The University of
Virginia's Sorenson Institute and he lectures on message development, politics and lobbying for The Police/Fire Labor Institute.
The work Shannon has done in the radio and television arena has been recognized for both creativity and effectiveness. He is a multiple first
place winner in the American Association of Political Consultants Pollie awards. Shannon won back-to-back first place Silver Microphone awards for
radio commercials. He is a three-time winner of the prestigious Gold statue at the Houston International Film Festival. Shannon won first place in the
Vision Awards for television. He has also won consecutive Silver Microphone awards for best campaign.
Shannon's first job was as an anchor on an ABC outlet in West Texas. He went on to be a correspondent for the Texas State News Network and an editorial
writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News.
In addition to his work with MANDATE, Shannon has been a guest commentator for KERA-TV, an occasional guest op-ed writer for The Dallas Morning News and The Arkansas Political Report. He is also co-author of Police Association Power, Politics, and Confrontation: A Guide for the Successful Police Labor Leader.
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 KRAIG SIRACUSE joined Park Strategies in January, 2005, and helped to establish Park Strategies Washington Group, LLC, where he serves as the primary liaison between clients, potential corporate partners, and government entities on a daily basis. Mr. Siracuse coordinates the firm’s federal lobbying efforts.
From 1991 until 1998, Mr. Siracuse served as a Legislative Assistant, working for U.S. Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato and the Senate Banking Committee. During this time, Mr. Siracuse was responsible for the Senator’s trade portfolio, appropriations issues, national security, foreign affairs, telecommunications, and commerce issues. Mr. Siracuse also worked with Senator D’Amato in drafting and passing landmark legislation in the field of breast cancer, on both the state and federal level. Mr. Siracuse specialized in coordinating successful legislative efforts with grassroots support, various coalitions in the community, and the press.
Most recently, Mr. Siracuse served as a Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense, a position he held from 1999 to 2005. Mr. Siracuse was responsible for Congressional oversight of the Department of Defense’s annual budget, with a focus on Army and Air Force investment programs, and the Former Soviet Union Threat Reduction program. He was responsible for in excess of $40 billion in direct oversight of Department of Defense programs and represented the Chairman at various speaking engagements, including industry conferences and national security forums.
Mr. Siracuse earned his bachelors degree at The George Washington University, and holds a master’s degree from George Mason University. Mr.
Siracuse is also a Lieutenant in the United States Navy and a graduate of the Naval War College.
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 DAVID SKAGGS is executive
director of the Center for Democracy & Citizenship Program at the
Council for Excellence in Government. He is also of counsel to a
Washington-based law firm and an adjunct professor at the University
of Colorado. These positions follow Mr. Skaggs' twelve years of
service in Congress (1987-99) as U.S. Representative from the Second
Congressional District of Colorado (the northwestern Denver suburbs)
and three terms in the Colorado House (1981-87), the last two terms
as Minority Leader.
In Congress, Mr. Skaggs served on the
House Appropriations Committee and on the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence. He did extensive work on public lands and
environmental issues, on constitutional matters, in protecting the
advocacy rights of nonprofit organizations, and in support of basic
research and higher education. He also played an active role in
House consideration of foreign policy and trade matters. During his
tenure on the Hill, he was a leader in efforts to improve the House
of Representatives, helping start the House Bipartisan Retreat, and
founding the Constitutional Forum with Representative Jim Leach
(R-Iowa). During the 104th Congress, Mr. Skaggs was chairman of the
Democratic Study Group.
Before serving in elected office, Mr.
Skaggs practiced law and had been chief-of-staff to then Congressman
Timothy E. Wirth of Colorado. After earning a BA in philosophy from
Wesleyan University, he earned a law degree at the Yale Law School.
He served as a Marine Corps officer in Vietnam, later attaining the
rank of Major in the Marine Reserves.
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 JIM SLATTERY is a partner with the law firm Wiley Rein, LLP.
He is in the government affairs division and handles issues relating to health care, telecommunications, energy, utility, trade, and railroad issues. From 1983-95, Mr. Slattery was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing a district in the state of Kansas. He served on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and the Budget Committee. Previously, Mr. Slattery served in the Kansas State House of Representatives from 1973-79. He earned a BS and JD at Washburn University and attended the Netherlands School of International
Economics and Business.
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 DANIEL STANLEY was confirmed as the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Legislative Affairs in June 2005. In this position he is responsible to the Secretary of Defense for all legislative coordination between the Department of Defense and the United States Congress. He leads the legislative affairs staff and supervises the overall operations of the office. Prior to this position, Mr. Stanley served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs.
Mr. Stanley previously served concurrently as the principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army (manpower and reserve affairs) and the deputy assistant secretary of the Army (training, readiness, and mobilization). He was responsible for secretariat oversight for all aspects of Army training and readiness and all issues pertaining to the National Guard and Army Reserves. He was also responsible for reviewing the mobilization and deployment of reserve forces in support of operational missions.
Additionally, Mr. Stanley served as secretary of administration for the State of Kansas. As the senior member of the Governor's cabinet, Mr. Stanley served as the chief operating officer for the State of Kansas. He provided leadership and oversight for nine divisions of central government services including state personnel, computer and telecommunications systems and operations, state purchasing, accounting and financials, as well as printing and all state owned and leased facilities. During his tenure, Kansas achieved national recognition for innovation and excellence in human resources, facilities management, and information technology management.
Prior to his appointment as secretary of administration, State of Kansas, Mr. Stanley served as administrative assistant, legislative director, and defense policy advisor to Senator Bob Dole. As a member of the Arms Control Observer Group staff, Mr. Stanley attended the first congressional delegation to Berlin after the fall of the wall, monitored START and Defense and Space Talks negotiation, as well as the Chemical/Biological Treaty negotiations. In addition, Mr. Stanley staffed all defense authorization and appropriations bills for the Republican leader and provided coordination with defense committees of oversight as well as with the services and the Department of Defense. He staffed Senator Dole during three rounds of base closure and realignment, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and served as Senator Dole's advisor for major defense procurement initiatives and force structure realignments.
From 1985 to 1987, Mr. Stanley was director of strategic planning for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation responsible for the corporation's 10-year defense forecast and other strategic planning initiatives.
A veteran of the submarine force, Mr. Stanley enlisted in the Navy in 1973, and was commissioned in 1980. He served aboard the USS BATFISH and the USS WOODROW WILSON. Additionally, he served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon and was responsible for strategic communications systems linking the National Command Authority to the nuclear forces. Mr. Stanley retired from the Naval Reserve in 1997 with the rank of commander. He is a recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Commendation Medal among other awards.
Mr. Stanley graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a degree in nuclear technology. He also attended the University of Kansas and the Armed Forces Staff College.
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JEFF STEIN is an editor and investigative reporter of long standing, specializing in U.S. intelligence, defense and foreign policy. In September 2002, he became the founding editor of
CQ Homeland Security, a daily news website from Congressional Quarterly featuring enterprise reporting on the Department of Homeland Security and related agencies, such as the CIA, FBI and Justice Department.
Jeff, who was an Army Intelligence case officer in Vietnam, is currently Congressional Quarterly's National Security Editor and SpyTalk Columnist.
A frequent contributor to The New York Times and Washington Post, Jeff was deputy foreign editor for UPI during the 1980s. He is also the coauthor of
Saddam's Bombmaker (Scribner, 2000), and the author of
A Murder in Wartime: The Untold Spy Story That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War (St. Martin's Press, 1992). He appears regularly on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, The BBC, and NPR as a commentator on national security issues.
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 LEONARD STEINHORN is an associate professor in the School of Communication at the American University. He has been a faculty member since 1995, and students there selected him the University's Outstanding Faculty Member in 1999 and 2001. His innovative approach to teaching was seen around the world when CNN came into his classroom each week to cover the course he developed on the 2000 presidential election.
Professor Steinhorn is also a consultant and commentator on political communications and American culture. He has been asked by the White House to suggest ideas for the State of the Union Address, and he is a frequent on-air analyst during campaign and election season.
He is the author, with colleague Barbara Diggs-Brown, of the book, By the Color of Our Skin: The
Illusion of Integration and The Reality of Race (1999). Professor Steinhorn is a frequent contributor and advisory board member of the
Internet Journal History News Network.org and has served as a contributing editor to TomPaine.com. His work has been published in
The New York Times; The Washington Post; International Herald Tribune; Atlanta Constitution; Baltimore Sun; Newsday; Christian
Science Monitor; San Francisco Chronicle; Insight Magazine; Poverty & Race; and Journal of Intergroup Relations. He has been sought out
by major broadcast networks for comment with appearances on CBS Evening News, CNN, MSNBC, Black Entertainment Television, Fox News
Channel, the BBC, PBS, NPR and many local newscasts.
Professor Steinhorn is a former vice president of the Widmeyer Group public affairs firm; executive
director of HALT - Americans for Legal Reform; director of Research and Strategic Planning for the People For the American Way; and
founding editor, the Right-Wing Watch newsletter. He has been a speechwriter/press secretary for various politicians, as well as the
House Judiciary Committee and the U.S. Helsinki Commission.
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 MARK STENCEL is
deputy publisher of Governing magazine. He also is a technology columnist for Governing and its sister publication, Congressional Quarterly's CQ Weekly. Mark previously worked as managing editor at Congressional Quarterly, where he helped oversee daily news coverage of Congress in print and online.
Before coming to CQ Inc., Mark worked at the Washington Post, where he was a senior editor on the newspaper's cross-media breaking news desk and the managing editor in charge of political news for washingtonpost.com. He helped coordinate and oversee online coverage of the 1996, 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, and the 1998-1999 investigation and impeachment of President Bill Clinton. He also was a vice president with the company's online publishing division, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, where he
worked with washingtonpost.com's award-winning multimedia team and managed
online and broadcast content partnerships and helped develop and
market services for mobile devices.
Mark is the co-author of two books on politics and media: Peep Show: Media and Politics in an Age of
Scandal (2000, written with
Larry J. Sabato and S.
Robert Lichter) and On the Line: The New Road to the White House
(1993, written with Larry King).
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NEAL STRAUSS is the assistant
general counsel for regulatory affairs, U.S. Department of Energy,
where he has practiced regulatory law for more than 20 years. Mr.
Strauss began his career at the U.S. Department of Interior Office
of Hearings and Appeals where he handled administrative appeals
involving claims to public lands and coal mine health and safety
enforcement.
Mr. Strauss received his bachelor's
degree in political science from Brown University and his law degree
from the University of Chicago Law School. He is a member of the
Bars of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and of the United
States Supreme Court.
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 SANDRA KAPLAN STUART joined Clark & Weinstock as a managing director following a twenty-year career as a legislative expert on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch.
Before joining the firm, she was assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs from 1993 to 1999. Ms. Stuart was the Defense Department's direct liaison to all members of Congress and coordinated all activities relating to Senate and House consideration of the department's legislative agenda. This included extensive work with House and Senate Leadership and numerous committees including Appropriations, Ways & Means, Finance, Foreign Relations, Armed Services, Commerce, and Science and Technology. In addition, she was a senior member of the White House, NSC, State Department, Department of Defense team on all international matters before Congress. For her service, she was twice awarded the Department of Defense's Medal for Distinguished Public Service - the department's highest civilian award.
Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Ms. Stuart had extensive legislative experience. Ms. Stuart was chief of staff to Rep. Vic Fazio (D-CA) from 1987 to 1993. As chief of staff, Ms. Stuart oversaw all policy and political operations of Congressman Fazio's leadership office, as well as the operations of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee of which Congressman Fazio was chairman. During the same period, as associate staff on the House Appropriations Committee, Ms. Stuart drafted and managed legislation on a variety of issues including defense, foreign policy, health care, trade and the legislative branch. From 1983 to 1987, Ms. Stuart was associate staff on the House Budget Committee. Prior positions include legislative assistant to Rep. Fazio and chief legislative assistant to Rep. Bob Matsui (D-CA).
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PAUL SULLIVAN is the managing member of Sullivan & Associates, PLLC, a law firm specializing in the unique area of political law, providing services to a varied level of clients. He specializes in political law, which encompasses federal and state campaign finance, candidate committees, ballot initiatives, and federal Congressional ethics and lobbying. In addition, the firm provides counsel in the area of not-for-profit corporate law, with an emphasis on the political activities that may be undertaken by such organization in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code.
In 1974 Mr. Sullivan received his Bachelor of Science degree in political science from Santa Clara University. For the next two years, he was employed by the California-based political consulting firm of George Young & Associates, working on various candidate and ballot question campaigns in California and Hawaii. In 1969 he received his JD from Pepperdine School of Law and was hired as an associate with the law firm of Dobbs & Nielsen, specializing in political law.
In 1981, Mr. Sullivan relocated to Washington, DC to serve as the assistant general counsel at the National Republican Congressional Committee. In 1982 he was appointed as the counsel to the then recently appointed Federal Election Commissioner, Lee Ann Elliott. He served in that capacity until 1986, at which time he went into private practice in Washington, DC.
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 AL SWIFT is a principal in the firm of Colling Swift & Hynes, consultants on legislative and regulatory affairs. He served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the second district of Washington state from 1979 until 1995 when he retired. While in Congress, Representative Swift served on the Energy and Commerce Committee and became the chairman of the Transportation and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee. This subcommittee had jurisdiction over such disparate issues as railroads, Superfund, hazardous materials, the Federal Trade Commission, and tourism, among others. Representative Swift also worked on a number of major environmental issues and successfully moved a complete overhaul of the controversial Superfund law through the committee process. Representative Swift also chaired the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections.
Before serving in Congress, Mr. Swift was an award-winning broadcaster in three of
"the big towns" in his home state of Washington. Upon retiring from Congress, Mr. Swift became vice president of government relations for the Burlington Northern Railroad. Mr. Swift holds a degree from Central Washington University.
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