Category: Media Center

GAI Senior Fellow Mark Harkins recently spoke with a reporter for the Spanish language newspaper El Espanol. He discussed how a Michael Bloomberg candidacy can affect the presidential race. Here is the entire story (in Spanish).

Yesterday Federal News Radio hosted GAI Director Ken Gold to participate in an hour-long discussion about important issues before the 114th Congress. With Republicans holding majorities in both the House and Senate and a Democrat in the White House, the 1st Session of the 114th Congress was considerably more productive

AMI Newswire’s article on Senate Democrats’ efforts to force controversial votes on vulnerable Republicans who are up for reelection this year. “This is just congressional politics being played out through legislative procedure,” Huder told AMI. You can read the rest of the article here.

A story in Bloomberg Politics about House conservatives and what Speaker Paul D. Ryan needs to do in 2016 as the new leader quotes GAI Senior Fellow Josh Huder. “Ryan will need to find the sweet spot between giving conservatives a voice and protecting his at-risk members,” said Huder. You

GAI Assistant Director Worth Hester is quoted in an article in the Tribune-Review newspaper which outlines Sen. Bob Casey’s skepticism on President Obama’s recent decision to implement new gun restrictions and prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.”..Here is this senator who put a lot into deciding to support the deal,

GAI Senior Fellow Josh Huder is featured in an online piece for WJLA Washington, DC. Commenting on the passage of legislation by Republicans to repeal Obamacare, Dr. Huder is quoted as saying: “This has been their white whale for the last five years…..This is their big moment.”You can read the

The Denver Post article on the role of special investigative committees in Congress quotes GAI Assistant Director Worth Hester: “These things are certainly used to attract money,” said Worth Hester of the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University.You can read the entire article here.

A Tax Notes article on the tax policy dynamic going forward with a new Speaker and new Ways and Means chair quoted Senior Fellow Laura Blessing on the multiple meanings of “regular order” and Speaker Ryan and Chair Brady’s working relationship. You can read the entire article here (subscription service).

GAI Senior Fellow Laura Blessing joined WYPR radio host Sheilah Kast on Baltimore’s NPR affiliate to discuss current trends in the Republican Party. She spoke with fellow guests historian Geoffrey Kabaservice and journalist Barry Rascovar; you can listen to their conversation here .

An Al Jazeera article quoted Senior Fellow Laura Blessing on the institutional context Paul Ryan encounters in his new position as Speaker. “The change in the person in the speaker’s chair doesn’t change the political context that surrounds them,” Blessing said. “Even with a little bit of breathing space, he’s