Georgia has signed former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt (Mo.) to lobby for it in Washington.
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At a Capitol Hill Press conference today alongside Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Governor Ed Rendell (PA), Dick Gephardt today called for the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank.
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The bipartisanship that went on for 30 years was abnormal, and what you're seeing now is more normal," said former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, a Democrat from Missouri. "You've got to always remember that politics is a substitute for violence. ... If I disagree with you, it becomes very easy to not like you.
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Tommy Thompson and Richard Gephardt, Board members of America's Agenda: Health Care for All, today released the following statement on the Senate Health-Care reform bill.
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Former Congressman Dick Gephardt Brings National Spotlight to Rhode Island with "Best and Brightest Forum on Medical Innovation"
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Former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt and former Republican HHS Sec. Tommy Thompson put out another joint statement in favor of reform -- this time pumping up the Senate bill. The statement was circulated by the White House in an effort to show bi-partisan support for reform.
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On behalf of our client, the Council for American Medical Innovation (CAMI), Mr. Gephardt traveled to Des Moines, Iowa to lead an "Innovate Iowa" forum.
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Former U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt pushed Friday for Iowa to expand its focus on public health, arguing the state has the medical infrastructure in place to make it a leader in the field.
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Gephardt Government Affairs, one of Washington's top public affairs firms, has been engaged on a pro bono basis by Global Action for Children (GAC) to assist in government relations strategy on issues that impact the most vulnerable children globally.
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Legislative Alignment. The American Chiropractic Association is betting that a former House Majority Leader can help it get what it wants out of health care reform. The group last week hired Gephardt Government Affairs, the firm of former Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.).
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On behalf of our client CAMI, Dick Gephardt joined other health care leaders to diagnose health care reform.
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Richard Gephardt, former House Majority Leader and chairman of the Council for American Medical Innovation, talks with the council's president, Debra Lappin, at a briefing Monday on providing incentives for medical innovations.
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Gephardt Government Affairs, one of Washington's top public affairs firms, has been retained by Credit Union National Association Mutual (CUNA Mutual).
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Washington state can build on a strong base of biotech companies and position itself as a global leader in medical innovation, writes Richard A. Gephardt, chairman of the Council for American Medical Innovation. Smart state and local policies and investment will help.
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The Tom and Dick show is fast becoming one of Washington's top K Street attractions, as former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt and his former chief of staff Tom O'Donnell grow a fledgling firm into an Obama-powered big dog.
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On behalf of our client, the Council for American Medical Innovation, Gephardt joined leaders in Indiana government, academia and business to headline a forum on medical innovation on July 7 in Indianapolis hosted by Hoosiers Work for Health. The panel discussed medical innovation's role in the Indiana economy, and what is needed to maintain a robust environment for medical innovation as federal policy is being developed in Congress.
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Dick Gephardt was a leader in Congress 15 years ago, when the last major effort at health-care reform fizzled. He reflects on keeping medical costs down and keeping politicians focused on real change.
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In his opening remarks, Council President Dick Gephardt unveiled the coalition's new policy platform. Several speakers urged the meeting participants to call on Congress to adopt this policy agenda and make medical innovation and scientific discovery a national priority.
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The Obama administration gave conditional support today for a federal-industry partnership that would build an advanced coal-burning power plant in Illinois to trap and store carbon dioxide emissions, reversing a Bush-era decision to abandon the FutureGen project.
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Tom O'Donnell, former chief of staff to House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt (Mo.) and managing partner at Gephardt Government Affairs, said the state of the party and the chances of winning back the majority play into whether a Member can be talked into staying in the House.
"I think people thought that we had a pretty good shot at winning the place back [in 2000]," O'Donnell said, a sentiment that helped keep Democrats from retiring that year.
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As veterans of many political battles, we both learned long ago that far-reaching legislation like health care reform requires House and Senate Members to strike consensus.
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The City of Los Angeles Harbor Dept. has hired Gephardt Group Government Affairs to handle environmental matters at the country's largest seaport.
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Tom O'Donnell, Gephardt Group. The former chief of staff to House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt (Mo.), O'Donnell is a key cog in his burgeoning lobbying business.
The focus on the first 100 days of the Obama presidency rightly counted his many accomplishments. But perhaps even more profound is his vision: the promise of breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.
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The old adage "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog" falls short for Richard Gephardt. For the House Democratic leader-turned-lobbyist, a more fitting adaptation is, "If you want a friend in Washington, work hard and play nice."
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Some observers have speculated that the Obama administration will downplay democracy as a foreign policy priority, reacting against the emphasis President George W. Bush placed on a "freedom agenda," which many associate — rightly or wrongly — with a policy that sought to impose democracy on foreign countries.
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Clinton's visit "demonstrates that the U.S. agenda is not simply drugs and thugs," said Janice O'Connell, a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee aide on Latin America who is now at Gephardt Government Affairs firm in Washington.
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"American leadership in medical innovation must be part of our economic recovery plan," said former House Democrat Rep. Dick Gephardt, who helped form the group. "It has a direct impact on job growth, U.S. competitiveness and the health of all Americans."
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Many of the biggest names in Washington have joined the fray. Take former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, whose firm Gephardt Group is representing coal-producer Peabody Energy, electric utility Ameren and the FutureGen Industrial Alliance. Climate change, Gephardt declares, represents the "toughest political transition in the history of the human species."
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Gephardt Government Affairs has added three new hires to the growing 2-year-old firm founded by former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.).
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Janice O'Connell recently took a job as senior vice president with Gephardt Government Affairs, run by former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo. O'Connell left Capitol Hill at the end of 2007, but spent almost 30 years working for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. While there, she spent most of her time working for Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and focused extensively on Latin America. Dodd, a former Peace Corps worker in the Dominican Republic, was steeped in the issue as chairman of the panel's Western Hemisphere Affairs Subcommittee.
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The Gephardt Group has hired Janice M. O'Connell, Joel Freedman and Catherine Goode. O'Connell, a former senior policy adviser to Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), will be a senior vice president and comes to the firm from Hogan & Hartson and Stonebridge International. Freedman will be a consultant and was involved in the government affairs practice for the Hartford Financial Services Group. As a vice president, Goode, who most recently worked at Quinn Gillespie & Associates, will oversee strategic communications for the firm.
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There may be a groundswell of grass-roots support to draft former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) as the Health and Human Services secretary, but all signs point to the former Show Me State lawmaker staying in the private sector.
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Richard A. Gephardt used to be the Democratic leader in the House and a presidential candidate. Now he's Gephardt Inc.
The 14-term congressman from St. Louis retired from Congress in 2005 and went off to do what senior lawmakers do these days -- lobby. Or that's what it looked like at the time. In fact, he has done a lot more than that.
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The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) has retained Gephardt Government Affairs to reinforce its efforts to ensure that any national health care reform legislation passed by Congress includes chiropractic services on par with other physician services.
Gephardt Government Affairs today announced that Janice M. O'Connell, Joel Freedman and Catherine Goode will join the firm.
Catherine Goode, Vice President
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