Government Relations

Overview

AGG’s Government Relations team is a uniquely talented and interdisciplinary group. We bring professional experience, insight, and subject matter knowledge to government relations, government procurement, regulatory issues, and public policy. Our clients successfully work across all levels of government and our approach is simple: we ground ourselves in the strengths and talents they bring to the work. Then, we customize strategies and solutions to meet each client’s goals and needs.

Our team members have deep experience working with nonprofit, public, and private sector clients. AGG’s Government Relations professionals take pride in their public service experience, having served as state, local, and federal government leaders. AGG’s Government Relations practice offers the full suite of services. However, our specific work we do for each client is guided by their goals and requirements — not templates or past work. All AGG team members commit to a core principle that we are directly — and personally — engaged and accessible for our government relations clients.

Specific prior experience can be exceptionally important in government affairs, relations, and communications at  the state and federal levels. AGG’s Government Relations professionals have held both appointed and elected positions of leadership at all levels of government from state and local to federal.

Experience

  • Working with congressional lawmakers in both the House and Senate (and with their senior staff), successfully proposed appropriations law and report language that has been included in consecutive fiscal years, covering FY 2021 through FY 2024.
  • In FY 2023 and 2024, AGG’s Government Relations team has made significant legislative contributions to current public law (a federal agency is prohibited from expending funds [past or present] for a specified purpose).
  • Worked closely with a major Georgia import/export company at risk of going out of business in 2020 and 2021. Trade disputes that prompted extensive tariffs on a vast range of products imported to the U.S. with a country in Asia put hundreds of jobs at risk in Georgia, Michigan, and California. The AGG team, working closely with the client, set meetings with USTR officials and guided the client in developing a strategy for submitting “waiver” applications USTR accepted. The company recovered and continues to thrive.
  • Provided advice and strategic counsel to senior committee staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee (multiple policy matters).
  • Frequently work with clients to prepare them for congressional testimony.

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