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Brent Budowsky
From the mid-1970's to 1990 Brent Budowsky served in senior Congressional Staff positions including Legislative Assistant to former U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and Legislative Director to Representative Bill Alexander, then Chief Deputy Majority Whip. With Senator Bentsen Mr. Budowsky was extensively involved with the Intelligence Identities Protection Law and Intelligence Officers Death Benefits Act. During his years with Congressional Leadership he was involved with conflicts ranging from Central America and opposing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to supporting freedom in Eastern Europe and world trade issues. Read more l View Posts
Ron Christie
Ron Christie is a vice president of Navigators, full-service issues management firm with offices in Washington, D.C., Sacramento, California, and Tallahassee, FL which provides integrated public affairs campaigns that combine lobbying, issue advertising, strategic public relations and grassroots pressure to solve difficult public policy problems.. He is also the author of the book Black in the White House published by Nelson Current in January 2006. Read more l View Posts l View Books
Lanny Davis
Lanny Davis, a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Between 1996 and 1998 Mr. Davis served as special counsel to President Clinton and in that position acted as the White House spokesman for various congressional campaign-finance investigations and other "scandal" allegations against the Clinton administration. He now leads Orrick's unique law practice group, Legal Crisis Communications, advising public and private companies on how to deal with high-profile legal crises in the media and among stakeholders. Read more l View Posts l View Books
Ryan J. Davis
Ryan J. Davis is a freelance director and political consultant residing in New York City. Davis blogs for The Huffington Post, where his satirical ad "Gays for Giuliani" was featured on CNN and MSNBC. He worked in the new-media departments of Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign and Mark Green's 2006 New York attorney general campaign. In 2004, working with BlogPAC, Davis directed the Internet ad "Iraq Draft," which received a Silver Pollie Award for Best On-Line Persuasion Ad from the American Association of Political Consultants. In 1999, at just 17, he was the Maryland state youth coordinator for John McCain's failed 2000 presidential bid. Read more l View Posts
John Feehery
John Feehery is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Feehery Group, a boutique strategic advocacy firm dedicated to helping its clients achieve their legislative and communications goals in Washington D.C. Feehery is a well-known and well-respected legislative and communications strategist. He has spent 18 years in a variety of influential positions inside the beltway, both as a staffer for several high-profile members of Congress and as an advocate for a high profile trade association and prominent lobbying firm. Read more l View Posts
Peter Fenn
Since its founding in 1983, the Fenn Communications Group has become one of the nation's premier political and public affairs media firms. It has worked on over 300 campaigns, from presidential to mayoral, elected more members of the House of Representatives than any other firm and represented a host of Fortune 500 companies. Read more l View Posts
Bob Franken
Bob Franken has been doing history's play-by-play for decades. Through Bob, millions of viewers around the planet have been brought to the front row at just about all the world's major news events…war, political, legal, you name it, he's been right there. Read more l View Posts
Ronald Goldfarb
Mr. Goldfarb worked in the Department of Justice as a special assistant to Robert F. Kennedy in the organized crime and racketeering section, and as a speechwriter for Kennedy’s Senate campaign in New York. He tried cases in courts from small claims to the United States Supreme Court, consulted for congressional committees and national conferences and served as a special appointee of a federal court’s national investigation. Read more l View Posts
David Keene
David Keene is chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), a columnist for The Hill since 1998, and second vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). A longtime GOP strategist, he's held senior positions in numerous Republican presidential campaigns since 1968, worked in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Read more l View Posts
Kathy Kemper
Kathy Kemper — known as “Coach” to many — is founder and CEO of the Institute for Education, a nonprofit foundation that recognizes and promotes leadership locally, nationally and in the world community; IFE educates youth for global citizenship. Read more l View Posts
Jim Mills
The first full-time, embedded Capitol Hill producer for C-SPAN, Mills's responsibilities included arranging the network’s floor and hearing coverage, as well as writing, producing and editing a series of long-form documentaries on key members of Congress, from April of 1990 to October of 1996. In late 1996 Mills moved over to the nascent Fox News network, where as senior producer he launched and coordinated all Capitol Hill coverage. Between 1997 and 2002, while still at Fox, Mills was also moonlighting as a columnist for the National Journal’s Cloakroom and RollCall.com, penning hundreds of Web-based political-humor pieces highlighting key players and events on the Hill. Read more l View Posts
Dick Morris
Probably the most prominent American political consultant, Dick Morris is almost universally credited with piloting Bill Clinton to a stunning comeback reelection victory in 1996 after the president lost Congress to the Republicans two years before. Called "the most influential private citizen in America" by Time Magazine, Morris helped steer Clinton to the center and away from the liberal policies he had pursued in his first two years in office. Morris is also credited with advising Clinton to sign the welfare reform bill of 1996 and getting him to back a balanced budget, both key centrist positions.
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Bill Press
Bill Press is a veteran radio and television talk show host, at both the local and national level. For six years, Press was co-host of CNN's "Crossfire." He also co-anchored "The Spin Room" on CNN, with Tucker Carlson; and "Buchanan and Press" on MSNBC, with Pat Buchanan. Read more l View Posts l View Books
Stuart Roy
Stuart Roy’s two decades of experience includes advising leaders in both the U.S. House and Senate. He managed Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell's (Colo.) high-profile reelection in 1998 and has had extensive service on other statewide campaigns. Later, he ran the communications efforts for the National Republican Senatorial Committee under Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). He was subsequently appointed by President George W. Bush to head public affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor and later guided the communications strategy for then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas). Read more l View Posts
A.B. Stoddard
A.B. Stoddard, who has covered the U.S. House and Senate since 1994, rejoined The Hill as associate editor in 2006. She was a congressional reporter for The Hill from 1995-1999. Before returning to The Hill, Stoddard was a freelance writer and a contributing editor for Congressional Quarterly, where she wrote a column on the media. She also wrote for The Boston Globe and The Federal Paper. Read more l View Posts
Armstrong Williams
Armstrong Williams is called "one of the most recognizable conservative voices in America” by The Washington Post. Williams is a pugnacious, provocative and principled voice for conservatives and Christian values in America's public debates. A native of Marion, South Carolina, Williams was reared on the famil's tobacco farm with nine other siblings. He displayed an early gift for public speaking, winning a high school orating contest in 1976. Graduating in 1981 from South Carolina State University, he received his B.A. in Political Science and English. Read more l View Posts