The Lunch Hour with Washington Signal

Alex Adams serves as director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. He was appointed to lead the department by Gov. Brad Little in May 2024. The department has a staff of nearly 3,000 and an annual budget of $5.5 billion. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Taylor Barkley is the Director of Public Policy for the Abundance Institute. Previous to this position he was the Director of Technology and Innovation at the Center for Growth and Opportunity. He managed the research agenda, strategy, and represented the technology and innovation portfolio. His primary research and expertise are at the intersection of culture, technology, and innovation. His writ...

Rick Santorum is an American politician, attorney, author, and political commentator who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007. He was the Senate's third-ranking Republican during the final six years of his tenure. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Timothy Massad is an American lawyer and government official who served as the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Barack Obama. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School and a consultant on financial regulatory and fintech issues. Watch Full-Length Episodes: htt...

Thomas Hochman is a Policy Manager at the Foundation for American Innovation, where he works on regulatory and infrastructure policy. His research and writing has appeared in American Affairs , The Hill , National Review , The New Atlantis , The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies , and elsewhere. He holds a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Vermont. Watch Full-Length Episodes:...

The podcast episode of the Federal Newswire Lunch Hour, hosted by Andrew Langer, features an in-depth discussion on regulatory issues at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and broader implications for the administrative state. Guests include Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom, with extensive experience in labor and commercial law, an...

Tony Abboud is a government relations expert and litigator with 25 years experience in grassroots organizing, politics, state lobbying and the courtroom. Tony has spent the past decade defending vapor companies and companies in other heavily regulated industries against government over-reach. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Kate Hudson has served at AAU since March 2022. As Deputy Vice President and Counsel for Government Relations and Public Policy, Kate assists in managing and directing the Government Relations and Public Policy department and developing and executing strategies to advance AAU’s advocacy and public policy priorities in the federal legislative and regulatory arenas. Her portfolio includes intellectu...

Joe Allen served on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN) securing passage of the Bayh-Dole Act which fostered R&D partnerships between universities and U.S. industry.  The Economist Technology Quarterly called this law “possibly the most inspired piece of legislation to be enacted in America over the past half century.” On leaving the Senate staff, Joe was Executiv...

Tristan Leavitt is widely respected for his unrivaled inside knowledge of the federal whistleblower protection process. He has over a decade of experience investigating waste, fraud, abuse, and cronyism in the federal government. Leavitt began his investigative career working on the Senate Judiciary Committee staff of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), where he helped whistleblowers expose schemes l...

Noel Thomas stands as a visionary leader, driven by an unwavering dedication to eradicating the scourge of human trafficking through pioneering technological solutions. With a multifaceted background deeply entrenched in identifying organized crime, orchestrating law enforcement coordination, and advancing technological innovation, Thomas emerges as an entrepreneur poised to rewrite history in the...

Brian Darling is the president and founder of the firm Liberty Government Affairs. He was Senior Communications Director and Counsel for Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and a former senior fellow in government studies at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank based in Washington, D.C. Darling has been involved in U.S. politics since the early 1990s, in roles as a congressional aide, lobbyist,...

Mike Prado is a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) and serves as the Deputy Assistant Director for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), where he leads its Cyber Crimes Center (C3). At C3, he leads a federal law enforcement workforce utilizing cutting-edge technology and 21st century investigative techniques to combat cyber and cyber-facilitated transnational criminal activity. C3 prov...

Jessica Melugin is director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Her research focuses on technology issues including antitrust, online privacy, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, social media content and net neutrality regulation. Her writings have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, Bloomberg...

A dynamic public relations practitioner that hails from the great city of Detroit, MI with nearly 20 years’ experience designing and implementing creative engagement processes and programs within the public and private sectors. Serving as External Affairs Officer for Operation Allies Welcome, being selected as DHS’ first Social Impact senior executive, implementing the DHS Loaned Executive Program...

Kent Lassman has served as president and CEO at the Competitive Enterprise Institute since 2016, overseeing strategy and operations for the free-market organization. As president, Lassman brings to CEI more than 30 years of public policy, research, and executive management experience. He has held positions in nonprofit organizations, on advisory boards, at private firms, and public policy organiza...

Stone Washington is a Research Fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Advancing Capitalism. At CEI, his research primarily focuses on financial developments in the market, ESG investing, and federal regulation of the economy. He is currently a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow with the Mercatus Center, participating in a host of educational colloquia on the study of political economic...

Vincent Vernuccio is a senior fellow at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He served as the Mackinac Center's director of labor policy between 2012 and 2017. Vernuccio is a graduate of the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Mich. Under President George W. Bush he served as special assistant to the assistant secretary for administration and management in the Department of Labor. Vernucc...

Dr. Marion Mass is a pediatrician in the Philadelphia area. She serves on the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier Times and The Doylestown Intel and on the board of The Bucks County Health Improvement Partnership, and is a delegate and member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. Practicing Physicians of America (PPA) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization that supports the common business...

Wayne Crews is the Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His work explores the impact of government regulation of free enterprise. He studies antitrust and competition policy, safety and environmental issues, and the challenges of the information age like privacy, online security, broadband policy, and intellectual property. Crews is the author of the...

Jason Pye is Vice President of the Due Process Instituite, a bipartisan nonprofit that works to honor, preserve, and restore principles of fairness in the criminal legal system. Jason has extensive lobbying experience having worked as vice president of legislative affairs for Freedom Works. His focus is criminal justice reform and civil liberties and has contributed to notable legislation such as...

Karen Cook is a securities enforcement and white-collar defense attorney with more than 20 years of experience. She has unique expertise gained from success in SEC enforcement, securities industry legal management and private practice that distinguishes her from other former prosecutors and white-collar defense attorneys. She leverages this fusion of knowledge and experience to secure successful r...

Austen Bannan is an employment policy fellow at Americans for Prosperity. His previous experience includes serving as a senior policy analyst and research fellow at the Charles Koch Institute and legislative staffer on Capitol Hill. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Maureen Tusty is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and producer. Her newest film, She Rises Up (2024) , follows the struggles of three resilient women determined to battle poverty by establishing and sustaining local businesses, thereby empowering their communities. Maureen is also a co-founder of Sky Films Inc., an independent production company that seeks to share inspirational stories from aro...

Dr. Jonathan Newman is a Fellow at the Mises Institute. He earned his PhD at Auburn University while a Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. He was the recipient of the 2021 Gary G. Schlarbaum Award to a Promising Young Scholar for Excellence in Research and Teaching. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at Bryan College. He has published in the Quarterly Journal of Au...