GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Congress stopped following its own process.
We pioneer the methods that reach the Members you need to persuade.
What changed
Most advocacy is still built for a Congress that rewarded expertise. Members today can ignore a budget score or an agency’s analysis, and major bills have reached the floor without a markup or a public hearing. Offices don’t read sign-on letters from national groups because they already know where those groups stand, and staff send interns to the Hill briefings.
How we work the Hill
Offices and committees
We meet with the Members and committee staff who handle your issue, and we keep a whip count of every office we’ve talked to.
The ask
We build each ask around something a Member can take credit for in public, like co-sponsoring the bill or raising it at a committee hearing.
The coalition
We manage your coalition and prepare each partner to talk about what the bill does to the people they work with, in their own words.
Pressure from home
We organize calls from groups in the district before the vote, because offices pay closer attention to a local veterans’ post than to a national organization.
What we build
Staff bring their boss what's getting attention in the district, like a story on local talk radio or a clip from a constituent call. We produce that kind of material and get it to the office through the outlets its staff already follow.