The Lunch Hour with Federal Newswire
The Lunch Hour with Federal Newswire covers wide-ranging discussions with the Capitol city's policy movers, shakers, and thinkers. The Lunch Hour provides a unique look at the people behind the policy debates that are moving in DC.
Episodes
137 episodes
Ep. 134 - Jim Lechner
In this compelling episode of The Federal Newswire Lunch Hour, host Andrew Langer sits down with retired U.S. Army Ranger and veteran of six wars, Jim Lechner. Lechner reflects on his 27-year military career, including his exper...
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Ep. 133 - Doug Holtz-Eakin
Andrew Langer sits down with Doug Holtz-Eakin, founder and president of the American Action Forum. Doug shares insights from his decades of experience in economic policy, including his time leading the Congressional Budget Office and advising S...
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Ep. 132 - Nick Gerhart
In this episode of The Federal Newswire Lunch Hour, host Andrew Langer sits down with Nick Gerhart, COO and incoming CEO of Homesteaders Life Company. A former Iowa Insurance Commissioner and longtime advocate for innovation in insurance, Nick ...
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Ep. 131 - Guy Bentley
In this episode of The Lunch Hour with Andrew Langer, we're joined by Guy Bentley, Director of Consumer Freedom Research at the Reason Foundation. From the moral panic over vaping and the myth of “no safe level” of alcohol, to the creeping hand...
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Ep. 130 - Fred de Fossard
Fred de Fossard leads the Prosperity Institute’s parliamentary and legislative work. He is responsible for research on British prosperity, encompassing Brexit opportunities, regulatory and government reform, and economic growth. This includes a...
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Ep. 129 - Adam Lovinger
From 2006-2017, Adam Lovinger served as a strategist in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA), where he provided direct support on long-term strategy to the Secretary of Defense.For the first four months of the Trump Administrati...
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Ep. 128 - Adam Thierer
Adam Thierer is the former director of telecommunications studies at the Cato Institute. Thierer conducts research on how government regulations are hampering the evolution of communications networks, including telephony, broadcasting, cable, s...
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Ep. 127 - Nick Loris
Nick Loris is the Executive Vice President of Policy at C3 Solutions. Loris studies and writes about a wide range of energy and climate policies, including natural resource extraction, energy subsidies, nuclear energy, renewable power and energ...
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Ep. 126 - Greg Walcher
Greg Walcher is the author of "Smoking Them Out: the Theft of the Environment, and How to Take it Back", now in its second printing, writes a weekly newspaper column on natural resources issues, and publishes a blog called “Resources and Realit...
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Ep. 125 - Matthew Jensen
Matthew Jensen serves as the Director, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis and in the Center for American Prosperity at AFPI. For over a decade, he has contributed to building budgetary and economic modeling facilities that are used exten...
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Ep. 124 - Peter Van Doren
Peter Van Doren is editor of the quarterly journal Regulation and an expert on the regulation of housing, land, energy, the environment, transportation, and labor. He has taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs a...
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Ep. 123 - Brenda Hafera
Brenda Hafera is the Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation's Simon Center for American Studies. Her articles have appeared in publications such as Modern Age, The Federalist, Law and Liberty, The National Inter...
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Ep. 122 - Jim Renacci
James Renacci is an American accountant, businessman, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 16th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he is a former city council president and two...
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Ep. 121 - Rich Stout
Richard Stout is a former FBI agent and current CEO of Stout Security Consultants, a risk management and investigative firm specializing in safety and security, technical intrusion detection and venue event logistics.Stout managed the FB...
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Ep. 120 - Amy Bos
Amy Bos is a seasoned policy expert and advocate with a deep understanding of tech policy and legislative affairs. As Director of State and Federal Affairs at NetChoice, she educates policymakers on critical issues like Section 230, content mod...
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Ep. 119 - James Broughel
James Broughel, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is an economist specializing in regulatory institutions and their impact on economic growth. Author of Regulation and Economic Growth, he writes regularly for F...
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Ep. 118 - Hazen Marshall
Hazen Marshall is one of Washington's top policy experts, with three-decades of legislative policy experience, including over twenty years in the Senate as a senior leadership aide and ten years providing strategic consulting and lobbying servi...
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Ep. 117 - Alex Adams
Alex Adams serves as director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. He was appointed to lead the department by Gov. Brad Little in May 2024. The department has a staff of nearly 3,000 and an annual budget of $5.5 billion.
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Ep. 116 - Taylor Barkley
Taylor Barkley is the Director of Public Policy for the Abundance Institute. Previous to this position he was the Director of Technology and Innovation at the Center for Growth and Opportunity. He managed the research agenda, strategy, and repr...
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Ep. 115 - Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum is an American politician, attorney, author, and political commentator who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007. He was the Senate's third-ranking Republican during the final six years of his tenu...
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Ep. 114 - Tim Massad
Timothy Massad is an American lawyer and government official who served as the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Barack Obama. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard U...
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Ep. 113 - Thomas Hochman
Thomas Hochman is a Policy Manager at the Foundation for American Innovation, where he works on regulatory and infrastructure policy. His research and writing has appeared in American Affairs, The Hill, National Review
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Ep. 112 - FTC Panel
The podcast episode of the Federal Newswire Lunch Hour, hosted by Andrew Langer, features an in-depth discussion on regulatory issues at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and broader implications for the administrative state. Guests include Ti...
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