The Lunch Hour with Federal Newswire

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 energy efficiency. He also studies ways in which markets will improve the environment, reduce emissions and better adapt to a changing climate.Before joining C3 Solutions, Loris served as the Deputy Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy at The Heritage Foundation.

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 Reality,” which has several thousand subscribers nationwide.A fifth-generation native of Western Colorado, Walcher is President of the Natural Resources Group, a consulting firm specializing in energy, water, public lands, forestry, wildlife, and other environmental issues. He is also an associate in the respected DC environmental permitting firm of Dawson and Associates, serves on the Policy Advisory Board of the Heartland Institute, is a fellow at the Centennial Institute, and a board member of the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.Walcher served in the Governor’s Cabinet as head of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, and as president of a national organization of natural resources cabinet secretaries. Previously, he spent a decade on Capitol Hill working on natural resources and environment issues, and served as president of a non-profit association of 20 counties, 75 cities, and hundreds of businesses in Western Colorado.

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 extensively by US policymakers and those in numerous states and countries around the world. He was the Founding Director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Open Source Policy Center and co-creator of projects and organizations including the Policy Simulation Library and Open Research Group. His work in these roles contributed to the design of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and major pandemic fiscal responses in the US and elsewhere, among other policy achievements. Beyond scorekeeping, he has experience in government information security and Internal Revenue Service oversight in addition to private sector experience in technology product development. Jensen and his wife live in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey with their two boys.

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 at Princeton University, the School of Organization and Management at Yale University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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 Interest, RealClear Public Affairs, and The Hill.

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-term Mayor of Wadsworth, Ohio.

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 FBI Technical Security and Countermeasures program in Miami. He engaged and led to potential risk management prevention and response initiatives to defend the FBI from technological attacks at facilities and communication networks.

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 moderation, and antitrust, championing policies that promote a free and open internet. With 16 years of experience on Capitol Hill, including her role as Legislative Director and Judiciary policy advisor to Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, Amy has been instrumental in shaping legislation on immigration reform, privacy, criminal justice, and intellectual property.

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 Forbes on topics like energy and cryptocurrency. His work has appeared in major outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, as well as academic journals including Regulation & Governance and Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Dr. Broughel holds a PhD in economics from George Mason University and is a Hoover Institution Visiting Fellow focusing on small business regulation.

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 services to Fortune 100 businesses and trade associations.