The Deciders

Anne Bradbury is president and CEO of the American Exploration and Production Council, the trade group for the independent producers responsible for about 80% of the oil and 90% of the natural gas produced in the United...

Will Dunham, President and CEO of the American Investment Council, spent over a decade on Capitol Hill working on major bipartisan legislation where understanding both sides was critical. He now applies that same skill...

Mike Catanzaro is CEO and co-founder of CGCN Group, one of Washington's leading all-Republican lobbying and public affairs firms. He argues the working-class voters who flipped 63 of the 100 poorest congressional...

Jim VandeHei is co-founder and CEO of Axios, and before that he co-founded Politico — twice building some of the most influential media companies in Washington. In this episode, he argues AI backlash is quietly building...

Noah Theran runs communications for the Managed Funds Association, representing hedge funds and alternative asset managers in Washington. He says the traditional communications playbook has stopped working—and reveals...

Doug Thornell has spent his career helping candidates and corporations find their authentic story. The SKDK CEO argues that today, urgency is just as important — politicians and brands must move fast or get left behind...

A Republican and a Democrat who served at the highest levels of Congress built one of Washington’s only independent bipartisan firms — and turned down the buyers. Ron Bonjean and Rodell Mollineau of ROKK Solutions on...

Rhonda Bentz is Executive Vice President of Public Affairs at the Consumer Brands Association, the trade group representing the leading food, beverage, home, and personal care companies in America. In this episode...

Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie oversees more American industries than any other committee in Congress. He explains how he moved the biggest entitlement reform since welfare, why the AI race depends on...

Arkansas Congressman French Hill chairs the House Financial Services Committee. In this episode, Hill lays out his playbook for getting bipartisan bills passed and walks through the housing bill President Trump declined...

PhRMA CEO Steve Ubl has led one of Washington’s most influential trade associations for eleven years. In this episode, he makes the case for why America’s leadership in biopharmaceutical innovation is not guaranteed —...

Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) chairs the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee — and represents one of the poorest districts in America. In this episode he discusses the opioid crisis that...

David Chavern runs the American Council of Life Insurers, the trade group for an $8.5 trillion industry that predates the Civil War. In a Washington that operates by the minute, that's both a strength and a challenge...

Colin Allen is the Executive Director of the American Property Owners Alliance, the first organization built specifically to advocate for America’s 86 million homeowners. In this episode, Colin discusses the tax fights...

Chris Pilkerton serves as Assistant Secretary for Investment Security at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he leads CFIUS — the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. In this episode, Chris walks...