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Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs

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Office of Legislative Affairs and Policy Communications

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
8th Floor

Name, Title, Phone Number Primary Responsibilities Backup Contact
photo of Todd Kohr Todd Kohr
Acting Director
[email protected]
(202) 366-1311
Manage Congressional relations, legislative development, and policy communications. [email protected]
photo of Allison Rusnak Allison Rusnak
Director
[email protected]
(202) 366-9006
Congressional Affairs Team
photo of Heather Dean Simei Heather Dean Simei
Team Leader
[email protected]
(202) 366-2218
Act as central point of contact between FHWA staff and Congress. Respond to Congressional requests for technical assistance or project status reports. Serve as liaison with program offices and field to prepare timely responses to requests. Coordinate and manage meetings and conference calls among agency personnel and Congressional staff. Serve as central point of contact for meetings with State and local fly-in delegations. [email protected]
placeholder photo Alissa Dolan
Acting Team Leader
[email protected]
(202) 631-3393
Act as central point of contact between FHWA staff and Congress. Respond to Congressional requests for technical assistance or project status reports. Serve as liaison with program offices and field to prepare timely responses to requests. Coordinate and manage meetings and conference calls among agency personnel and Congressional staff. Serve as central point of contact for meetings with State and local fly-in delegations. [email protected]
photo of Brian Lomax Brian Lomax
Congressional Liaison Specialist
[email protected]
(202) 366-5042
Act as central point of contact between FHWA staff and Congress. Respond to Congressional requests for technical assistance or project status reports. Serve as liaison with program offices and field to prepare timely responses to requests. Coordinate and manage meetings and conference calls among agency personnel and Congressional staff. Serve as central point of contact for meetings with State and local fly-in delegations. [email protected]
photo of Zan Guendert Zan Guendert
Congressional Liaison Specialist
[email protected]
(202) 366-4672
Act as central point of contact between FHWA staff and Congress. Respond to Congressional requests for technical assistance or project status reports. Serve as liaison with program offices and field to prepare timely responses to requests. Coordinate and manage meetings and conference calls among agency personnel and Congressional staff. Serve as central point of contact for meetings with State and local fly-in delegations. [email protected]
Legislative Analysis Team
photo of David Pinckney David Pinckney
Acting Team Leader
[email protected]
(202) 366-1583
Direct, coordinate, and manage the team's legislative analysis and development activities. Review and analyze proposed legislation. Coordinate development, implementation, and explanation of highway authorizing bills. Advise Agency leaders—and brief Congressional staff, State officials, and Federal agency personnel—on the Federal-aid Highway Program and Federal highway funding. Review agency and interagency materials for consistency with Administration, Departmental, and Agency policy. Instruct sessions of the National Highway Institute's "Highway Program Funding" course. [email protected]
photo of Todd Kohr Todd Kohr
Team Leader
[email protected]
(202) 366-1311
placeholder photo Brittany Loesche
Transportation Specialist
[email protected]
(202) 366-4567
Review and analyze proposed legislation. Coordinate development, implementation, and explanation of highway authorizing bills. Advise Agency leaders—and brief Congressional staff, State officials, and Federal agency personnel—on the Federal-aid Highway Program and Federal highway funding. Review agency and interagency materials for consistency with Administration, Departmental, and Agency policy. [email protected]
placeholder photo Danielle Blackshear 
Transportation Specialist
[email protected]
(202) 366-6786

Review and analyze proposed legislation. Coordinate development, implementation, and explanation of highway authorizing bills. Advise Agency leaders—and brief Congressional staff, State officials, and Federal agency personnel—on the Federal-aid Highway Program and Federal highway funding. Review agency and interagency materials for consistency with Administration, Departmental, and Agency policy.

[email protected]
photo of Tricia Millington Tricia Millington
Transportation Specialist
[email protected]
(838) 219-0606
Review and analyze proposed legislation. Coordinate development, implementation, and explanation of highway authorizing bills. Advise Agency leaders—and brief Congressional staff, State officials, and Federal agency personnel—on the Federal-aid Highway Program and Federal highway funding. Review agency and interagency materials for consistency with Administration, Departmental, and Agency policy. [email protected]
photo of Melissa Maiefski Melissa Maiefski
Transportation Specialist 
[email protected]
(402) 326-7960
Review and analyze proposed legislation. Coordinate development, implementation, and explanation of highway authorizing bills. Advise Agency leaders—and brief Congressional staff, State officials, and Federal agency personnel—on the Federal-aid Highway Program and Federal highway funding. Review agency and interagency materials for consistency with Administration, Departmental, and Agency policy. [email protected]
Policy Communication Team
photo of Joris Torres Jorismar Torres
Team Leader
[email protected]
(202) 366-4044
Direct, coordinate and manage the FHWA briefing process for FHWA and USDOT leadership. Oversee and maintain an electronic library of briefing material. Oversee Office of Policy and Governmental Affairs' public outreach and communication. Ensure quality control for FHWA Reports to Congress. [email protected]
photo of Michael Lynch Michael Lynch
Briefings Coordinator
[email protected]
(202) 366-0602
Serve as a briefings coordinator. Prepare executive-level briefing material for the FHWA and USDOT leadership. Coordinate information gathering, provide briefing integration, and manage data collection. Coordinate Reports to Congress. [email protected]
photo of Kofi Arhin Kofi Arhin
Briefings Coordinator
[email protected]
(202) 366-0160
Serve as a briefings coordinator. Prepare executive-level briefing material for the FHWA and USDOT leadership. Coordinate information gathering, provide briefing integration, and manage data collection. Manage Office of Policy and Governmental Affairs' public outreach work, serving as liaison with Office of Public Affairs. Manage Office of Policy and Governmental Affairs' website content, ensuring up-to-date information. [email protected]
placeholder photo Alina Zaidi
Briefings Coordinator
[email protected]
(771) 200-6739
Serves as briefings coordinator. Prepare executive-level briefing material for FHWA and USDOT leadership. Coordinate Congressional and policy information gathering, provide briefing integration, and manage data collection. Provides cross-team information coordination. Coordinate Congressional and policy news, information, and policy reporting. Manage Bipartisan Infrastructure Law website content. [email protected]
placeholder photo Vacant
Senior Briefings Coordinator
Serves as briefings coordinator. Prepare executive-level briefing material for FHWA and USDOT leadership. Coordinate Congressional and policy information gathering, provide briefing integration, and manage data collection. Provides cross-team information coordination. Coordinate Congressional and policy news, information, and policy reporting. Manage Bipartisan Infrastructure Law website content. [email protected]

 

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