Coalition Leadership

The Coalition’s leading partners, Capitol Consulting Group and Ferox Strategies, have united to bring robust bipartisan policymaker connections, records of D.C. advocacy success, and proven creativity and dedication to the Coalition. Our partnership will ensure that our AI industry members don’t miss a step in reaching both returning and leaders on Capitol Hill and the Trump Administration in shaping the future of the AI field.

Bringing Members Together

We aim to tell our membership’s story on AI in a way that resonates with policymakers that care about emerging technologies. We will work with our membership to identify their stories that further their brand reputation on how they are leveraging AI in a trusted and ethical manner.

Pooling national and international resources to address common misconceptions

Stephen K Replogle
Cristina Antelo

House & Senate AI Leaders

The Coalition offers its members close, pre-built working ties with policymakers who are dedicated to updating legislation and regulation impacting AI and machine learning.

Committees of jurisdiction make up a vast oversight, funding, and policy network that the AI industry must negotiate to achieve progress and dodge roadblocks. The top relevant relationships of Ferox and Capitol Consulting Group include: House and Senate leadership, leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Commerce Committee overseeing technology policy; leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees; the Chair and senior staff of House Homeland Security, Senate HSGAC, the House Oversight Committee; and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

Another important group of stakeholders: the House and Senate AI Caucuses, who overlap significantly with the committees of jurisdiction as well as tech-centric ideological caucuses like the New Democrat Coalition and the Future Forum. Many AI Caucus leaders and members bring experience with AI from their pre-political career fields including national security, financial services, and the law.

Democratic Stakeholders

Effective engagement with House Democrats requires tailored outreach strategies and established relationships that enable direct access to decision-makers and senior staff. Democratic members — particularly those in the progressive wing — represent some of the most vocal voices on AI accountability, bias, and workforce impact. The Coalition maintains active connections across the full spectrum of Democratic caucuses:
  • Identity & Equity Caucuses The Congressional Women’s Caucus and the Tri-Caucus — comprising the Congressional Black Caucus, Hispanic Caucus, and Asian Pacific American Caucus, which together represent more than half of House Democrats — are leading advocates on issues of racial and gender equity in AI development and deployment.
  • Progressive & Labor-Focused Members The Congressional Progressive Caucus remains highly engaged on AI’s implications for worker protections, privacy rights, and algorithmic fairness. These members are essential partners in shaping legislation that centers equity alongside innovation.
  • Pro-Business & Future-Focused Members The New Democrat Coalition, home to the “Future of Work” initiative, bridges business competitiveness with emerging technology policy. The Future Forum — composed entirely of Millennial members — brings a forward-looking lens to issues at the intersection of technology, climate, and economic opportunity.
  • Fiscally Conservative Democrats The Blue Dog Coalition prioritizes responsible governance and fiscal accountability, offering a pragmatic entry point for conversations about AI oversight and regulatory efficiency.

Republican Stakeholders

Republican engagement is critical — particularly in the Senate, where bipartisan support is a prerequisite for virtually any legislation to advance. The Coalition benefits from deep-rooted GOP relationships built over decades, including those of longtime Senate Republican aide Stephen Replogle of the Capitol Consulting Group. Beyond Senate dynamics, House Republicans continue to press key priorities including U.S. technological competitiveness, national security, and business innovation — areas where the Coalition’s mission directly aligns. Key Republican connections include:
  • Congressional Leadership The Coalition maintains relationships with House and Senate Republican leadership, with particular strength in the Senate Republican Conference — an essential constituency for building the bipartisan coalitions that move legislation forward.
  • Committee Leadership Republicans hold influential positions on committees with direct jurisdiction over AI and technology policy. Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee — which holds primary authority over technology matters — are among the Coalition’s priority engagement targets.
  • Ideological Factions The House Freedom Caucus represents a vocal constituency focused on limiting regulatory overreach and ensuring robust legislative checks on executive authority — perspectives that shape the boundaries of any viable AI governance framework.
  • Technology & Competition Caucuses Republican-led task forces on technology and China competition are central to the AI policy debate. The bipartisan China Task Force has produced nearly 200 legislative recommendations aimed at securing America’s technological leadership — an area of strong alignment with the Coalition’s goals.

Trump Administration

Engaging the executive branch is essential to any comprehensive AI policy strategy. The Trump Administration has made artificial intelligence a stated priority — framing U.S. AI leadership as a matter of national competitiveness, economic growth, and strategic security. The Coalition maintains relationships with key executive offices and councils driving AI and emerging technology policy, including:
  • Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) — coordinating the Administration’s AI research and development priorities across federal agencies
  • Office of Management and Budget (OMB) — shaping regulatory and budgetary frameworks that govern how federal agencies adopt and oversee AI systems
  • National Security Council (NSC) — increasingly central to AI policy given the Administration’s emphasis on technology competition with China and AI’s role in defense
  • Department of Commerce & NIST — leading efforts on AI standards, export controls, and the technical frameworks that underpin responsible AI deployment
  • AI & Crypto Czar’s Office — the Administration’s designated point of coordination for AI and digital asset policy under David Sacks

Scope Of Work

Our combined resources will monitor federal policy, provide strategic analysis, gather intelligence on upcoming congressional and White House action, create tailored messaging and meeting collateral, and engage in lobbying efforts when necessary to advance the Coalition’s goals as well as prevent detrimental policies. The following activities are included as part of our proposed scope of work:

Coalition leadership will partner with members to identify and prioritize engagement goals on an ongoing basis. From there, our team will conduct comprehensive stakeholder mapping — identifying the policymakers, industry groups, advocacy organizations, and thought leaders who carry influence across Congress, the Administration, and the broader Washington policy ecosystem.
This mapping spans a wide range of actors already active in the AI and emerging technology space, including:
  • Associations & Think Tanks engaged on issues such as AI applications in health equity, supply chain and logistics optimization, and national security
  • Industry & Business Groups shaping the commercial and regulatory environment for AI deployment
  • Advocacy & Civil Society Organizations raising concerns around algorithmic bias, data privacy, surveillance, and AI’s broader societal impact
Armed with this intelligence, Coalition leadership will develop targeted engagement strategies — educating key stakeholders, building coalitions of support, and leveraging relationships strategically to advance the Coalition’s legislative and policy objectives.

One of the Coalition’s goals is to effectively tell our membership AI stories, in a manner that resonates with policymakers who are concerned with emerging technologies. The team will engage with our membership to identify initiatives and tactics that promote their brand reputation. This will demonstrate how our memberships are leveraging AI in a trusted and ethical approach.

The Coalition’s goals and policy concerns will serve as the foundation for a new government relations strategy covering defensive and intelligence-gathering work as well as opportunities for coalition members to engage as stakeholders on legislation and regulation. Our strategy would not overlook any opportunity: from Hill meetings and potential hearing testimony to political fundraising and sponsored panel discussions and the like, all designed to reach decision-makers in the beltway.

As needed by the Coalition and outlined in our new government relations strategies, the team will focus on research and advocacy before relevant legislative, regulatory, and executive offices on key issues before Congress; similarly, the team will work with regulators and stakeholders to shape the regulatory and policy landscape.

The team will engage on Coalition priorities with existing stakeholders and third-party allies to achieve policy objectives with legislators and executive branch officials. Simultaneously, the team will seek out new alliances and partnerships across the ideological spectrum, both inside and outside the Beltway, to support the Coalition’s agenda.

A smart government relations strategy must include its own data-driven, optimized digital engagement plan to reach and motivate stakeholders wherever they are. The Coalition has at its fingertips sophisticated and experienced developers to capture how policymakers and the public currently view AI in all its forms, then crafting digital campaigns and outreach targeted to our chosen audiences. Digital capabilities supercharge our relationship-based shoe-leather lobbying by reaching stakeholders of all types in real-time and online, ensuring the Coalition delivers timely tailored messaging regardless of hardships like the coronavirus pandemic.

While many firms may rely on simply tracking new meeting notices, legislative alerts and news, regulations and guidance, the Capitol Consulting Group/Ferox team further offers rapid-response and targeted analysis on a daily basis. From presidential tweets to floor speeches, our team is plugged in to bring our clients the latest news plus insight into what it all means for members’ bottom line. The team’s policy and legislative analysis setup are proactive as well as reactive, flagging for the Coalition critical information such as regulatory agendas, committee markup plans, and upcoming bills before they land.

Our clients’ executives’ time is limited, demanding concise and strategically focused communications. Our team will provide frequent but focused updates and intelligence regarding status of legislation, activities of relevant executive agencies, government officials and stakeholders, and the federal political climate potentially affecting the Coalition and its members’ key interests, all in a digestible format that never loses sight of the Coalition’s goals.