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Mark Bloomfield, President and CEO of the American Council for Capital Formation, hosts 30-minute conversations with prominent Democrat and Republican members of Congress, former and current economic policymakers, high profile media figures, and business leaders from the broad spectrum of the US economy.
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Mark Bloomfield welcomes House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill (R-AR) for A Conversation on the European Union’s Evolving and Far-Reaching Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and its Impacts on U.S. Businesses. Chairman Hill brings a unique private sector experience and public service to his chairmanship. He served President George H.W. Bush as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance and Secretary of the President’s Economic Policy Counc...
John Sullivan served as the former US Ambassador to Russia under Presidents Trump and Biden. His very timely book documents his time in Moscow when Russia invaded the Ukraine, and that’s why the appropriate subtitle is “A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West". Previously, Ambassador Sullivan was the US Deputy Secretary of State. He has served five presidents in prominent diplomatic and legal positions. Ambassador Sullivan is currently a distinguished fellow at Ge...
Kevin Brady, former Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, was the main architect of the TCJA, the first major reform of the Internal Revenue Code since 1986.Chairman Brady also served as chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and Joint Committee on Taxation. Currently he is on the board of the Tax Foundation. He is also a senior consultant to the Akin Gump law firm.
Mark hosts Stephen Moore, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, on ‘Trumponomics’” Stephen Moore is the co-author of Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy, along with Arthur Laffer, the father of SupplySide economics. Steve is a former member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board and was a senior economic advisor to President Trump in 2016. He is the co-founder and former president of the Club for Growth, the author of six books, and is...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes H.E. Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States for a conversation on “The Economic Challenges for Ukraine.” Oksana Markova has served as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States since February 2021. The Ambassador previously served as Minister of Finance where she co-authored Ukraine’s macroeconomic revival program with unprecedented fiscal success. She created the UkraineInvest government promotion agency and the Ukraine Startup Fund. Before her g...
Mark Bloomfield hosts Her Excellency Jovita Neliupšienė, the European Union Ambassador to the United States, who provided insights into the 2024 U.S. election and its implications for EU-U.S. relations. Ambassador Neliupšienė, with a distinguished background as the former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Economy and Innovation, shared her perspective on the transatlantic partnership’s future amidst global challenges. Notably, the Ambassador is one of several EU officials sanctioned by Rus...
Mark welcomes Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) for a conversation on his thoughts on five decades in public service. Over the last fifty years, Senator Cardin has earned titles of distinction including “Mr. Speaker” as the youngest Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates in history, “Mr. Chairman” of the Maryland House of Delegates Ways & Means Committee, "Mr. Chairman" of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and “Mr. Chairman” of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.&n...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes Dr. Arthur Laffer, father of supply side economics and economic advisor to Presidents Reagan and Trump. When he presented Art Laffer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019, President Trump said, “Few people in history have revolutionized economic thought and policy like Dr. Laffer. The father of supply side economics; a Yale graduate; a Stanford Ph.D.; the youngest tenured professor of the University of Chicago.” In the years 1972 to 1977 Art was an economic a...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes Representative Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and a member of the Ways & Means Committee, about the “Economic Policy Challenges for Latinos Today”. Representative Sánchez currently serves as the Ways & Means Committee, the first Latina to do so. When she became Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus, she was the first Latina elected to a leadership position in the US Congress. Her family and friends will tell you that sh...
Mark welcomes Greg Ip, Chief Economics Commentator for the Wall Street Journal and one of the best commentators on the economy and economic policy. He was part of the team of Wall Street Journal reporters who were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting. Greg is also the author of three books with provocative titles: The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World (2010), No Way Out?: Government Intervention and the Financial Crisis (2012), and Foolpro...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at Financial Times, about his new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. Former Secretary of Treasury Lawrence Summers, who kicked off our webinar series, called Martin Wolf “the world’s preeminent financial journalist.” Ben Bernanke, Nobel Prize-winning former chair of the Federal Reserve wrote, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism is "an excellent thought-pr...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes Michael J. Graetz, Professor Emeritus at Columbia and Yale Law Schools, on his latest book, The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America. Michael J. Graetz is a leading authority on tax politics and policy. He served in the US Treasury’s Office of tax Policy and is the coauthor of many books including Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth. Graetz received the Tax Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award in re...
Mark hosts A Conversation with Senator Joe Lieberman, Founding Chairman of No Labels, About “No Labels” & the 2024 Presidential Election. Joe Lieberman is the founding chairman of No Labels, a political organization whose stated mission is to support centrism and bipartisanship and a possible ballot line to a unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election. His forty years of public service includie 24 years in the US Senate and the Democratic nominee for vice president in Al ...
Mark welcomes Jason Furman, Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama. Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is also nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Furman engages in public policy through research, writing and teaching in a wide range of areas including U.S. and international ma...
Mark Bloomfield discusses Proxy Advisors with Jay Clayton, Former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Jay Clayton served as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission from May 2017 to December 2020. He is currently a Senior Policy Advisor and Of Counsel to Sullivan & Cromwell. Mr. Clayton’s practice centers on corporate governance and financial regulatory matters, economic policy and government relations, and investigations. For over twenty-five yea...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes Oren Cass, author of "The Once and Future Worker: A vision for the renewal of work in America." Oren is an opinion writer for the Financial Times and his work has also appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He worked previously as the domestic Policy Director for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, as a management consultant at Bain & Company, and an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Oren is the Executive Director of Americ...
Rep. Horsford is the 28th Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, which is dedicated to "positively influencing the course of events pertinent to African Americans and others of similar experience and situation", and "achieving greater equity for persons of African descent in the design and content of domestic and international programs and services." Rep. Horsford has represented Nevada's 4th congressional district since 2019, previously holding the position from 2013 to 2015....
Mark Bloomfield welcomes H.E. Francisco António Duarte Lopes, Ambassador of Portugal to the United States.Ambassador Lopes previously served as Permanent Representative of Portugal to the United Nations since 2017. Prior to that, he served at Portugal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Lisbon, where he was promoted to the rank of Ambassador in December 2015. Earlier, he was the diplomatic adviser to the Prime Minister.
Mark Bloomfield hosts Robert Lighthizer, former United States Trade Representative and author of No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers. Robert Lighthizer served in President Trump’s cabinet as the United States Trade Representative from 2017 to 2021 and was a deputy USTR under President Reagan. He has negotiated dozens of international agreements and practiced trade law for more than forty years. Bob Lighthizer also served as chief minority co...
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) is the Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee and the Co-chair of both the Blue Collar and European (EU) Caucuses. He is now serving his fifth term in Pennsylvania's Second District. The first in his family to attend college, he attended the University of Notre Dame and later graduated from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government with a master’s degree in Public Policy. Rep. Boyle was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislatur...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes John B. Taylor, Ph.D., Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Professor Taylor is renowned for his expertise in macroeconomics and monetary policy. He is the author of "The Taylor Rule", an equation linking the Federal Reserve's benchmark interest rate to levels of inflation and economic growth. Professor Taylor served as Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs under President George W. Bush and on the ...
Mark Bloomfield spoke with Jason Grumet, CEO of the American Clean Power Association (ACP) on June 2. ACP is the foremost trade association representing the clean energy industry, with nearly 800 member companies to provide families and businesses with affordable, reliable energy made in the U.S., and powered by American workers. Jason Grumet is respected on both sides of the aisle for his innovative approach to impacting public policy. He joined ACP from the Bipartisan Policy C...
On June 1, Mark Bloomfield had a conversation with Jonathan Capehart, a Pulitzer-winning Associate Editor for The Washington Post. Jonathan Capehart has been an opinion writer at The Post since 2007. He was a member of The Post’s editorial board until 2022. He hosts the weekly Post podcast “Capehart” and the weekly Post Live show “First Look,” which is also streamed on Comcast’s Peacock streaming service. At MSNBC, Capehart is the anchor of “The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart,” which de...
On May 22, Mark Bloomfield hosted Congressman Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) for “A Conversation on the State of Natural Gas Production and the Future of LNG Exports.” A committed public servant, Rep. Carter previously served as the Mayor of Pooler, Georgia and in the Georgia General Assembly where he used his business experience to make government more efficient and responsive to the people. Buddy is serving his fifth term in the United States House of Representatives and is a member of the H...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes Theodore Boutrous, Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP for a conversation on climate litigation. Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and counsel for Chevron Corporation in the current state and municipal climate lawsuits. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. The New York Times has noted, Mr. Boutrous has “a long history ...
Mark Bloomfield hosts "A Conversation on United Kingdom-American Political & Economic Challenges" with H.E. Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the US. Prior to arriving in DC, Ambassador Pierce was the United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York since March 2018. Prior to this role, she served as the Director General for Political Affairs and Chief Operating Officer of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, from 2016.
Mark Bloomfield hosts a conversation with Sebastian Mallaby on his latest book, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future". Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An experienced journalist and public speaker, Mallaby contributes to a variety of publications, including Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times, where he spent two years as ...
On June 16, Mark Bloomfield spoke with Alan Murray, CEO of Fortune Media and author of the new book Tomorrow’s Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. Alan oversees the business and editorial operations of the independent media company and is known for expanding its digital and conference franchises. He also writes a closely-read daily newsletter for Fortune, CEO Daily. Prior to joining Fortune in 2015, Alan led the rapid expansion of the Pew Research Center’s digital fo...
On June 8, 2022, the ACCF hosted “A Conversation with Chairman Earl Blumenauer of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee on the future of US trade policy.” Congressman Blumenauer (D-OR) was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1996. He is currently a member of the Ways and Means Committee, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Trade and a member of the Subcommittee on Health. These assignments give him a unique platform to promote issues like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. ...
On May 26, the ACCF proudly hosted former Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz. Dr. Ernest Moniz served as United States Secretary of Energy from May 21, 2013, to January 19, 2017. As Secretary of Energy, he was tasked with implementing critical Department of Energy missions in support of President Obama’s goals of growing the economy, enhancing security and protecting the environment. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Moniz was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Eng...
On May 12, the ACCF hosted Gerald F. Seib, Washington Executive Editor, The Wall Street Journal. Seib previously served as the Washington bureau chief, overseeing the Journal’s news and analysis from Washington. He also developed the digital edition of the Washington bureau that includes his own column and commentaries, a real-time version of Washington Wire and other features and columns. Mr. Seib appears regularly on networks such as CNBC, Fox Business Network, CNN and the BBC as a c...
On April 27, the ACCF proudly hosted House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) for a conversation about the political and economic challenges facing our country. Congressman Scalise represents the First Congressional District of Louisiana, stretching from the beautiful Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain and the culturally distinct New Orleans suburbs to the vibrant bayous and wetlands abundant in natural resources. He was elected to Congress in 2008 after serving in the Louisiana State ...
As the 2022 tax filing deadline fast approaches, the ACCF was honored to host former IRS Commissioners David Kautter and John Koskinen. The discussion centered on the issues the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been grappling with as a result of shrinking resources and how to fix the Agency’s problems under a continuously evolving economy. Mr. Kautter was designated by President Donald Trump to be the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service effective November...
On February 23, the ACCF proudly hosted “A Conversation with Philippe Étienne, the Ambassador of France to the United States about Franco—American Political & Economic Challenges”. Ambassador Étienne served as chief diplomatic adviser to the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, from 2017 to 2019 before being nominated as ambassador of France in the United States in September 2019. He previously held numerous posts within the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, notably including Amb...
On February 17, the ACCF proudly hosted Congressman Garret Graves (R-LA). More than 750,000 people live in the 13 parishes that make up the sixth district, which includes most of the Congressman’s hometown of Baton Rouge, the bulk of the Capital City’s suburbs, parts of parishes along both sides of the Mississippi River to the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain and continues south through Thibodaux to Houma. Congressman Graves is the Ranking Member for the Select Committee on the Cli...
On February 10, the ACCF proudly hosted Todd Snitchler, President and CEO of the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA). EPSA represents companies that own competitive power generation assets and advocates for policies that focus on achieving and maintaining well-functioning and properly regulated competitive wholesale electricity markets for the benefit of consumers, a reliable power system, and the environment. The conversation included the current lay of the land in the U.S. electricity...
On January 27, the ACCF proudly hosted the Honorable Bobby Rush (D-IL), Chairman of the House Energy Subcommittee of the Energy & Commerce Committee. Chairman Rush is our first webinar guest of 2022. He has served fifteen terms in Congress and is the Pastor of his Beloved Community Christian Church of God in Christ in Chicago. He is a former leader of the Black Panther Party, organizer of the original Rainbow Coalition, an honorably discharged army veteran, a former Chi...
Dan Brouillette served as the 15th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to that he was the Deputy Secretary of Energy. His career spans three decades of experience in both the public and private sector. His other past roles include serving as the Senior Vice President and head of public policy for USAA, the nation’s leading provider of financial services to the military community. Before joining USAA, Brouillette was a Vice President of Ford Motor Company, where he led the ...
With the most important Federal Reserve Board meeting in recent memory this week, our webinar with former Secretary of Treasury Larry Summers could not be more timely. Secretary Summers kicked off the ACCF webinar series some 20 months ago on April 9, 2020. Dr. Summers is one of the most influential economists driving the debate on the appropriate economic policy today. This will be an opportunity to discuss our economy since we last gathered, today’s challenges and what we can d...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes the Honorable Max Baucus, former Ambassador to China and U.S. Senator (D-MT). In his years as an elected official and diplomat, Max Baucus was engaged in the most consequential issues of the past half-century. He served as U.S. Senator for over 35 years, making him the longest-serving Senator in Montana history. He served as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and also played an influential role in the debate over health care reform. President...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes Mark Weinberger, global business leader and former Assistant Secretary of Treasury under President George W. Bush. Mark served as the Global Chairman and CEO of EY, a leading global professional services organization with 284,000 people, operating in more than 150 countries. He led the organization through a purpose-fueled transformation centered on EY’s purpose of building a better working world. His government experience includes serving as Assistant Secretar...
Mark Bloomfield welcomes Joe Lieberman, former U.S. Senator (I-CT) and Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee in 2000. Lieberman served as the senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. He is a former member of the Democratic Party and was its nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2000 election. During his final term in office, he was officially listed as an independent Democrat and caucused with and chaired committees for the Democratic Party. <i...
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 an Independent. Before that he was a Democrat. Senator King is a consensus builder, w...
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 number of years at General Dynamics, then joined Leidos, Inc. as president of the company’s Natio...
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 the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a non-resident scholar at the American Ent...
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 Economic Forum, and one of the six "Gurus of the Future" by the Financial Times. His ability to e...
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 White House Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President for Legi...
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 textbooks, as well as co-author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, Balance: 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, including national security, healthcare and 2008 presidential politics surrounding Hurricane Katri...
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