Politics and Policy on the Potomac

Senator Angus King is one of two Independents currently serving in the Senate.  He holds the same seat once held by storied Maine leaders Edmund Muskie, George Mitchell, and Olympia Snowe. He currently serves on the Committees on Armed Services, Intelligence, Energy & Natural Resources and Rules & Administration. Earlier, Senator King served as the 72nd Governor of Maine, again elected as...

Mark Bloomfield welcomes Lewis “Lou” Von Thaer, President and CEO of Battelle Memorial Institute."   Battelle is a private, nonprofit applied science and technology enterprise that explores emerging areas of science, develops and commercializes technology, and manages multiple Department of Energy national laboratories. Lou began his technology career with AT&T Bell Laboratories, spent a...

Congressmen Schrader and McKinley have made headlines for their introduction of the bipartisan Clean Energy Future through Innovation Act of 2021.  The legislation promises to boost innovation of clean energy technologies and reduce emissions from the power sector while preserving affordability and reliability.

Phillip Swagel is the 10th Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).   He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009, where he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that was part of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. He has recently been a Professor in International Economics at th...

Austan Goolsbee is the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama.   Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research has earned him recognition as a Fulbright Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan fellow. In prior years he was named one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Econo...

Kenneth M. Duberstein is Chairman and CEO of The Duberstein Group and former Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan.   Ken is chairman and CEO of The Duberstein Group, an independent strategic planning and consulting company advising leading corporations and a select group of trade associations.  Duberstein served as a key member of the Reagan Administration during his various assignments as Wh...

Glenn Hubbard is dean emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. He received his BA and BS degrees summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida and also holds AM and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University.   In addition to writing more than 100 scholarly articles in economics and finance, Glenn is the author of three popular t...

Bob Cusack has been reporting on policy and politics in the nation’s capital since 1995. He joined The Hill as Business and Lobbying editor in 2003 and became the newspaper’s managing editor a year later. He became the editor-in-chief in 2014.   Cusack has won six awards from the National Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists for investigative articles on a range of issues, includ...

Congressman Johnson is currently in his eighth term from Georgia’s Fourth Congressional District – which encompasses parts of DeKalb, Gwinnett and Newton counties and all of Rockdale County. He has distinguished himself as a substantive, effective lawmaker and a leading national progressive voice.   Congressman Johnson serves on the Judiciary Committee and is the Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommi...

Senator Todd Young (R-IN) discusses “What Next for US Retirement Policy in a COVID-Challenged Economy?," a webinar hosted by The American Council for Capital Formation and Empower Retirement.   Senator Young serves on the Senate Finance Committee and is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Social Security Services, Pensions and Family Policy. Therefore, he is one of the most influential...

Zanny Minton Beddoes is the 17th and 1st female Editor-in-chief of The Economist. She is the recipient of two prestigious Gerald Loeb Awards for excellence in journalism award; “one of the most powerful women in the world,” says Forbes, and a regular on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS. Previously, she was the business affairs editor, responsible for the newspaper’s coverage of business, finance and scien...

H.E. Dina Kawar was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United States of America in June 2016.  Ambassador Kawar also served as the Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations from August 2014 to June 2016.  She led the Jordanian delegation during Jordan’s non-permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council from...

Mark Bloomfield hosts Rob Nichols, President and CEO of the American Bankers Association.  The ABA represents banks of all sizes and charters and is the voice for the nation’s $20 trillion banking industry. Rob joined ABA in August 2015 following ten years at the helm of the Financial Services Forum, a non-partisan financial and economic policy organization. Before joining the Forum, Rob served in...

Gillian Tett is Chair, Editorial Board, Editor-at-large, US, Financial Times.   She writes weekly columns in the FT on a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. In June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at...

Mark Bloomfield hosts "A Conversation with Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) on the Agenda for a Growing and Equitable Economy. " Congressman Brady is the lead Republican on the Ways & Means Committee, one of the most critical committees involved with our economic recovery from the COVID pandemic.  As the 66th chairman of the committee, he authored the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017, a...

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has held his seat since 2010 when it was left vacant by the late Senator Robert Byrd. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and also serves on the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs - four critical committees that tackle the impo...

Paul Gigot is the editorial page editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal. Over the last two decades Paul has been responsible for the newspaper's editorials, op-ed articles and Leisure & Arts criticism and directs the editorial pages of the Journal's Asian and European editions and the OpinionJournal.com website.  He is also the host of the weekly half-hour news program,...

Mark Bloomfield welcomes Solomon D. (“Sol”) Trujillo for a conversation on “The New Mainstream and the Latino Cohort That is Driving It.”  Sol is a global executive who has served as the CEO of US West in the US, Orange SA in France and Telstra in Australia.  He has served or is on the boards of PepsiCo, Bank of America, EDS, Target, Chin’s Silk Road Technologies, Western Union, among others. Sol...

Mark Bloomfield hosts Greg Ip, Chief Economics Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.  Greg Ip writes about U.S. global economic development and policy. Greg Mankiw has called Greg Ip, “One of the world's best economic journalists.“  That’s a lot coming from a Harvard professor of economics and one of the most cited in classroom textbooks.

Bob Carroll is Co-Director of Ernst and Young’s U.S. National Tax Quantitative Economics and Statistics Group. Before joining Ernst & Young, Carroll was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the Department of Treasury, where he served as the top economist working on tax policy issues. Carroll's insight will be invaluable given the increased noise around possible tax reform in...

Dr. Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics. He is Vice Chairman of IHS Markit, one of the world’s largest research and information companies, with 16,000 employees, and founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, which became part of IHS in 2004. Dr. Yergin also chairs CERAWeek, the annual global energy gathering, which CNBC has described as “t...

Mark Bloomfield hosts Ambassador Mfeketo for a very timely topic: Lessons from Nelson Mandela for Reconciliation and South African-US Economics Relations.     Ambassador Mfeketo is a former Minister of Human Settlements, Deputy Minister of International Relations & Cooperation, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Mayor of Cape Town.

Congressman Crowley was a former chairman of the House Democratic Caucus (2017-2019),  the fourth highest ranking position among House Democrats. He served two decades in Congress, representing New York’s 14th congressional district and played a leadership role as an influential member on economic policy on the Ways & Means Committee.  In a Democrat primary race that captured the nation's...

Kevin Hassett is the 29th Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, 2017–2019. He returned to the White House this March - June on a pro bono basis to support data-driven economic decisions in response to the pandemic. Currently, Hassett is Vice President and Managing Director at The Lindsey Group, LLC, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and an economics contr...

Senator Wyden is the eighth most senior member of the U.S. Senate with four decades of service in Congress, first in the House and now in the Senate.  Senator Wyden believes in “principled bipartisanship,” solutions that allow all parties to stay true to their respective principles and celebrate agreements.  As a former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and Energy and Natural Resources Comm...