Going into week six of social distancing and self-isolation, we are all starved for a little bit of levity within the seriousness of this situation. Which is perhaps what led me to make this correlation – that of beloved TV gameshows and the legislative outlook for the remainder of the year. From Phase 3.5 (amended […]
Before COVID-19 reached our shores and fully consumed and transformed our daily lives, the running joke was that the pandemic was brought to us by our house pets who conspired to get more quality time with their families. And while dogs and cats were probably split down the middle regarding their choice of Democratic candidates, […]
Just as COVID-19 was reaching pandemic proportions, negotiations between Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) broke down when Russia refused to extend an agreement limiting oil production. The response from Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s largest member, was swift. Saudi Aramco, the nation’s oil producer, announced that it would increase production to 12.3 […]
Cogent Managing Director Dave Oxner spoke with The New York Times to further explain his thoughts regarding government interventions in the form of bailouts.
The Capitol is now closed to the public, congressional offices have been scaled back to essential personnel and, as soon as the COVID-19 relief package is finished, all members of Congress will head back to their states and districts. Given the condensed congressional schedule ahead of the November elections, many companies, associations and organizations had […]
The past few weeks have felt more like months to many of us. Each day brings multiple, extraordinary headlines about the various impacts from and reactions to the spread of the coronavirus. Empty stadiums, shuttered museums, motionless cruise ships and now quarantined policymakers have jarred the public and laid a foundation for panic that will […]
Biden’s Rise in Primary Calms Nerves on K Street
By Dave Adams Say what you will about President Trump using tariffs to leverage a non-economic dispute but he got the Mexican government to agree to more forceful measures on its southern border and to consider a soft version of, “safe third country” – referring to refugee claimants seeking entry to Canada or the United […]
This op-ed was published by the Washington Diplomat and authored by Cogent Strategies’ Will Bohlen. Every morning of the current administration, Washington wakes up to numerous tweets dashed off by President Trump in the pre-dawn hours and then scrambles to make sense of it all. Is he setting in motion a new policy? Did he just […]