by Gordon Hensley | Feb 10, 2026 | advocacy, Business, Communications, health care, lobbying, Media Relations |
I didn’t see firsthand how the K Street lobbying scene worked until the tail-end of my 30s and a little voice in my head said it was time to become an adult — or at least more of an adult. I was having the time of my life going through a revolving door I...
by Gordon Hensley | Jun 9, 2025 | advocacy, Business, Communications, lobbying, Media Relations, state government, U.S. House, U.S. Senate |
From PR Week and PR Daily to Gotham Ghostwriters and Axios the demise of op-eds as a content-sharing vehicle is a discussion worth having. And per usual, those proclaiming simply “Yes” and “No” are wrong. The real answer is “No —...
by Gordon Hensley | May 10, 2024 | advocacy, Business, Communications, GOP Politics, lobbying, U.S. House, U.S. Senate |
It’s been almost 40 years since then-Wall Street Journal stars Jeff Birnbaum and Alan Murray wrote their seminal 1987 masterpiece Showdown at Gucci Gulch detailing passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 — the single most sweeping U.S. tax...
by Gordon Hensley | Apr 19, 2024 | advocacy, Communications, U.S. House, U.S. Senate |
Despite the fact I support efforts in Congress requiring Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell TikTok, I have to say that the social media giant created one of the best pieces of advocacy content I’ve seen in a long time. Released by TikTok’s government...
by Gordon Hensley | Feb 23, 2021 | advocacy, Business, Campaign 2020, CDC, CMS, COVID, health care, HHS, Media Relations, Pharmaceutical, SNF, state government, Trump
Kudos to CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan for her excellent interview of former Trump Administration Deputy National Security Advisor, Matthew F. Pottinger, surrounding several facets of the Trump Administration’s COVID-19 response. The discussion...
by Gordon Hensley | Apr 11, 2020 | advocacy, Business, lobbying, polling
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, DC consultants, lobbyists, data specialists and others are scrambling for their lives, and indeed, their very livelihoods. Clients representing both vast sectors as well as smaller sub-sectors of the U.S. economy are shelling...
