Bill Spencer Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc

Potomac Strategic Development is a Washington, DC, based business development, government affairs, public relations, and federal marketing firm. • Tenacious, respected, and effective champion for industries, nonprofits, municipalities, higher education, large and small, new, and established at the national, state, and local levels. • Create opportunities, solve problems by strategically representing client’s objectives and goals. • Navigate public advocacy campaigns from the White House to the Capitol, Senate, and House. • Generate bipartisan success for clients through legislative, regulatory, and business-to-business strategy and implementation with Congress, the Administration, and organizations. • Legislative victories Include: Enacted into law the Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Prevention Act; Secured tens of billions of dollars for community health centers and their patients across the country; Responsible for provision in the Financial Services - Flood Insurance reauthorization law that provided millions of dollars of relief for local governments throughout the country.• Regulatory victories include: Successfully blocked a Presidential Executive Order and USDA Regulation which would have decimated an equine industry. • Policy Issues include: Transportation/Infrastructure; Technology/Communications; Energy; Environment; Health/Benefits; Financial Services; Homeland Security; Appropriations; Labor/Management; Education/Training; and Agriculture.

Washington Dc

Meridian Communications provides new political and business opportunities with successful campaign, issue management, marketing, and communication strategies for positive results. • Successful in a variety of political campaigns, issue advocacy, crisis management, professional training, executive coaching, strategic communication, and marketing.• Respected and trusted advisor to members of congress, business leaders, and political candidates. • Manage Super PACs, PACs, 501(c)(4)s. Develop strategic campaign management and media plans for candidates and issue campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels. • Direct sophisticated grassroots/grass tops and issue advocacy programs and networks. • Raise awareness through marketing services and tactics to reach intended target(s) including: Event Planning and Coordination; Social Media; and Internet Marketing.

Arlington, Virginia

Chief lobbyist and political strategist for 25,000-member association representing America's business community and the U.S. construction industry. Prime contact and media spokesman for association on all political, legislative, legal, and regulatory issues. Advised ABC member committees on a variety of legal and government affairs issues.• Enhanced ABC's reputation as one of the most influential and respected advocates and authorities by the business community, Congress, and the Administration.• Managed Legislative, Regulatory, Political, State, Grassroots and Legal divisions. • Supervised high-performance team of twenty-five individuals and managed a $10 million budget. • Established strategic goals for federal and state lobbying, legal and regulatory affairs, grassroots network, PAC, and issue advocacy. • Successfully enacted a new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)) training regulation which recognized free enterprise companies and their apprentices.• Founded and chaired national coalitions including the: Coalition for Association Health Plans; Coalition for the Preservation of ERISA Preemption; and Coalition for a Democratic Workplace.• Created regional political manager program responsible for grassroots and campaigns.• Formed Construction Legal Rights Foundation building a war chest of over $2 million.• Increased PAC contributions from $250K to $2.5M and created the 501(c)(4) Free Enterprise Alliance (Issue Advocacy) with $3.5M per cycle.• Raised over $300,000 a year hosting and coordinating Senate and House member and candidate fundraising events.• Built national job placement service for college graduates in construction-related fields.

Jd, Law

Activities and Societies: Community Legal Services

Bs, International Relations/Political Science

Activities and Societies: Beta Theta Pi; Madrid CampusCum Laude

Master Graduate:, Leadership And Communication